Marta Kawczyńska is a European Patent Attorney and Polish patent and trademark attorney, as well as a professional representative before the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) and the Unified Patent Court (UPC). She joined POLSERVICE in 2002, became a member of the firm’s Supervisory Board in 2015, and since 2021 has been the Supervisory Board Chair.
Ms. Kawczyńska offers strategic and comprehensive IP counseling on the protection and enforcement of inventions in the fields of biotechnology, life sciences, and pharmaceuticals. Her expertise encompasses developing IP protection strategies, drafting and prosecuting patent applications, and handling matters related to supplementary protection certificate (SPCs) applications for medicinal and plant protection products. With extensive experience in patent litigation at both local and international levels, she represents clients before major authorities including the Polish Patent Office, European Patent Office (EPO), World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), and administrative courts. Through a vast network of cross-border contacts, she navigates patent-related matters for clients worldwide, ranging from multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies as well as domestic universities, technology transfer centers, start-ups, and SMEs.
Since 2015, Ms. Kawczyńska has served on the Board of the Polish National Group of the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI Poland), where she currently holds the position of Vice President. She is a longtime active member of the AIPPI Standing Committee on Biotechnology and an observer in AIPPI Standing Committees – Pharma and Unitary Patent / Unified Patent Court (UP/UPC). Since 2017 she has been a Council Member of the Institute of Professional Representatives before the European Patent Office (epi) for Poland. Marta has lent her expertise also to epi’s Biotechnology Committee and the Pharma Thematic Group of epi’s European Patent Practice Committee. She was a long-time Council Member for the Mazovian region of the Polish Chamber of Patent Attorneys (PIRP). Currently she serves on the Chamber’s Special Committee on the UPC and on the Examination Committee. She is also a member of the Union of European Practitioners in Intellectual Property (UNION-IP). Since October 2024, she has been a member of the Polish Patent Office’s Advisory Panel on Quality.
Her insights are frequently sought at conferences and seminars, where she speaks on IP-related topics in Poland and abroad. As a lecturer, she shares her knowledge of IP, including on creating patent strategies, patent drafting techniques and UP/UPC matters with patent attorneys, trainee attorneys at PIRP and students at the Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology at the University of Gdańsk and the Medical University of Gdańsk. Her written contributions include publications involving UPC matters and co-authored publications on antibody patenting, i.a. for Wolters Kluwer.
Ms. Kawczyńska graduated from the Intercollegiate Faculty of the Medical University of Gdańsk and the University of Gdańsk, where she specialized in molecular medicine and genetics. Her research focused on the molecular background of different cancers and the development of molecular diagnostic and prognostics tests for viral and cancer diseases. She completed post-graduate studies in industrial property law at the University of Warsaw and the European Patent Law course at the Centre for International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI) at the University of Strasbourg. Practical experience includes internships at the EPO in Munich (Praktika Intern), including the one with the EPO Technical Boards of Appeal.
