Dr Joanna Dargiewicz

JD&P Patent Attorneys (Poland)

Joanna Dargiewicz, Ph.D. in Chemistry

Polish and European (EQE) Patent Attorney, UPC Representative, Founding Partner

Joanna is a founding partner of JD&P Patent Attorneys and a Polish and European patent attorney specialising in the protection of the solutions in the filed of life sciences, especially chemistry, pharmacy, biotechnology and medicine, as well as physics, mechanic and electronics. She holds a Ph.D. in chemistry.

She graduated in chemistry with excellent grades from the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin. She then began full-time doctoral studies at the Department of Chemistry of the MCSU. During this time, Joanna received an Erasmus scholarship for research at the University of Limoges, France, on the synthesis of glycosylated porphyrins. After returning to Poland, she defended her Ph.D. dissertation on the synthesis and properties of porphyrin complexes with lanthanides introduced into silica matrices obtained by the “sol-gel” method, at the Department of Inorganic Chemistry of the Faculty of Chemistry, MCSU.

Joanna obtained a post-graduate diploma in Industrial Property Law at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw, which will allow her to represent clients before the Unified Patent Court. She also underwent the attorney course offered by the Polish Chamber of Patent Attorneys. She is a qualified Polish and European Patent Attorney (EQE passed in 2016) as well as professional representative before European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), where she is involved in the cases relating to trademarks and designs. Joanna has a substantial experience in the drafting of patent applications and its prosecution before Polish Patent Office (PPO), International Bureau of WIPO and European Patent Office (EPO).  She specialises in patent searches – prior art searches, patentability searches and freedom to operate searches. Moreover, Joanna takes part in the opposition, invalidation and litigation proceedings before PPO, EPO, EUIPO and civil and administrative courts.

She is a member of the Polish Chamber of Patent Attorneys, where she served as a Secretary of the Revision Commission and a Member of the Board of the Masovian District of the Polish Chamber of Patent Attorneys from 2017 to 2021. Additionally, Joanna is a member of the EPI (she currently serves as a full member of the Professional Education Committee and a full member of the Professional Conduct Committee), FICPI, AIPPI, INTA and an observer with APAA. She speaks fluent English and Polish, has a basic knowledge of French and Russian and is learning Spanish.