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Alicja Zalewska-Orabona

Partner

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Alicja Zalewska-Orabona

Partner

Contact
CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang Pośniak i Bejm sp.k.
Varso Tower
Chmielna 69,
00-801 Warsaw
Poland
Languages Polish, English, Spanish, Italian

Alicja Zalewska-Orabona is Partner and heads the Warsaw trade marks and design team integrated into the CMS London office. While Alicja has experience in providing advice across the full spectrum of IP rights, she has a particular strength in the field of trade marks and designs and has extensive experience in contentious matters. Alicja is qualified as an advocate in Poland and has advised and represented in relation to litigation before Polish civil, administrative and criminal courts, the General Court, as well as in proceedings before EUIPO, WIPO and Polish IPO. Alicja used to work an EUIPO examiner and a lawyer at EUIPO Board of Appeal. Currently Alicja works with the EUIPO as an external expert on various EU trade mark projects and was selected as a quality auditor of EUIPO decisions. 

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"Recognised as 'a rising star'."

Rising Stars 2018

"Recognised as 'a rising star'."

Rising Stars 2018

Relevant experience

  • One of the world’s largest FMCG company in civil litigation over look-alike products and over unfair competition claim.
  • A renowned multinational industry, safety, health care and consumer goods producer in enforcement actions against generic use of its trade marks.
  • The world's largest technology company in litigation against a notorious 'trademark troll’.
  • A renowned luxury brand in on its successful trade mark infringement case.
  • A consumer electronics retailer in the dispute related to the notion of acquired distinctiveness.
  • A tobacco producer before the EUTM court in Poland in brand enforcement.
  • Proceedings relating to sale of e-cigarettes bearing confusingly similar marks.
  • One of the world’s largest FMCG company in successfully overturning preliminary injunction order issued in unfair competition proceedings.
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Memberships & Roles

INTA Trademark Office Practices Committee (EUIPO Subcommittee)

Warsaw Bar Association

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Education

  • Master of Laws, University of Warsaw, Poland.
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Expertise

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09/04/2024
Designs practice update: EU Court of Justice upholds Advocate General’s...
BackgroundIn our previous article (here), we discussed the opinion of Advocate General Capeta in EUIPO v The KaiKai Company Jaeger Wichmann. That opinion was provided following an appeal against the General...
Law-Now Consumer Products
26/03/2024
EU Court ruling upholds invalidity action against PUMA shoe design
The EU General Court ruled on the invalidation of a community design by the EUIPO and an appeal against that decision (judgement of the General Court in Case T-647/22, Puma v EUIPO - Han­dels­maatschap­pij...
Law-Now Consumer Products
18/12/2023
CMS International Disputes Digest – 2023 Winter Edition
Welcome to our winter 2023 edition of the International Disputes Digest, analysing current trends in dispute resolution around the world with insights into, and potential solutions for, the challenges facing global business. With unrest and uncertainty reigning in both Europe and the Middle East, never has the guidance in this digest been more applicable. In Europe, the war in Ukraine is now in its second year. Apart from the incalculable human cost, this conflict continues to impact energy prices, supply chains, political stability, and isolates the Russian Federation from the international business community. The war in Israel is equally tragic in terms of human suffering with an impact that is reverberating internationally. As for the pandemic, COVID-19 restrictions are largely over with no indication that they will return in the near future. The COVID-19 virus, however, remains a threat – although arguably a less lethal one – and a public-health concern that is likely to remain indefinitely. The articles in this digest consider strategies to mitigate the impact of those challenges and others that may be affecting your business. We hope you enjoy reading it and wish you a peaceful festive break, with best wishes for 2024. 
Publication
16/08/2023
Designs practice update: Advocate General backs 6-month priority period...
Can a Community Design application claim priority from an earlier patent application – and if so, what is the applicable priority period?The recent opinion of Advocate General Capeta in EUIPO v The...
Law-Now Consumer Products
03/07/2023
Deceptive Indications and Trade Mark Protection: Lessons from the Redefine...
Back­groundRe­define Meat, a company specialising in environmentally friendly plant-based meat alternatives, sought protection for their logo mark through an International Registration (IR) claiming protection...
Law-Now Consumer Products
15/06/2023
What's a letter got to do with it: Advinans AB v ALBINGIA SA
In a recent judgment (case R 551/2018), the Grand Board of Appeal annulled the decision of the Opposition Division which had refused the stylised “A” mark applied for by Advinans and instead, rejected...
Law-Now
10/02/2023
European General Court confirms EUIPO appeal decision in Rolex trade-mark...
In a recent judgment (case T‑726/21), the European General Court dismissed the appeal filed by Rolex SA and confirmed the decision of the Board of Appeal of the EU Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)...
Law-Now Consumer Products
10/01/2023
Trade marks in poor health: why vitamins won’t save your phar­ma­ceut­ic­al...
Pharmaceutical preparations’ will be removed from your trade mark registration if you are only using for dietetic substances, vitamins and supplements according to the General Court Late last year...
Law-Now
29/07/2022
Resurrected brands and bad faith – EU General Court annuls decision of...
In its judgment of 6 July 2022 (case T-250/21), the General Court of the European Union annulled the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) that...
Law-Now Consumer Products
20/04/2022
Russia’s latest response to Western Sanctions – an affront to Intellectual...
One of Russia’s responses to the mounting Western sanctions for its invasion of Ukraine has been to undermine the protection afforded to Western intellectual property rights. On 5th March 2022, the...
Law-Now Consumer Products
21/03/2022
Abuse of law and process in trade mark cancellation proceedings – EUIPO...
In a recent decision (case R 904/2021-1), the Board of Appeal of the EU Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) confirmed the findings of the EUIPO Cancellation Division that, although the revocation applicant...
Law-Now Consumer Products
28/10/2021
Back to Square one? General Court decision provides guidance on dis­tinct­ive­ness...
In a decision dated 20 October 2021, the General Court of the European Union (“GC”) has reaffirmed the requirements for the registration of a composite trade mark, i.e. one composed of both word and...
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