(WIPO code: PL) (last revised February 2023)
by POLSERVICE, Warsaw – A. Stopinska-Slefarska and W. Marciniak, Patent Attorneys
Poland
General Information
Area
312,696 sq. km.
Population
39,179,800 (estimated March 2021).
Capital
Warsaw, with about 1.8 million inhabitants.
Language
Polish.
Currency
Zlotys (PLN).
Principal imports
Machinery and transport equipment, manufactured goods and articles, chemicals and mineral fuels.
Principal exports
Machinery and transport equipment, miscellaneous manufactured articles, food and live animals.
General Remarks
About 12% of the population is engaged in agriculture. The chief crops are: rye, wheat, barley, rapeseed, oats, potatoes, sugar beet, tobacco and flax.
There are important textile, chemical, woodwork and metal industries. Poland also produces automobiles, tractors, heavy machinery, ships and aircrafts.
Poland possesses great mineral wealth, particularly coal, but also iron, lignite, copper, natural gas, lead, sulphur and zinc.
Member of the European Union as of May 1, 2004.
| Statistics (2021) | Filed | Issued |
| Patents and utility models | 4,199 | 3,856 |
| total valid patents and utility models on 31.12.2021 | 19,727 | |
| Validation of European patents | 11,888 | – |
| total valid EU patents on 31.12.2021 | 93,364 | |
| Trademarks | 15,506 | 14,794 |
| under Madrid Agreement | 2,070 | 1,962 |
| total valid trademarks on 31.12.2021 | ||
| under national procedure | 170,675 | |
| under international procedure | 77,628 | |
| Industrial designs | 1,174 | 1,009 |
| total valid industrial designs on 31.12.2021 | 8,655 | |
| Topographies of integrated circuits | 22 | 13 |
| total valid topographies on 31.12.2021 | 63 | |
| Geographical indications | 0 | 0 |