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On 10 July 2019 EUIPO issued a decision cancelling an industrial design presenting the head of a doll, which was registered in violation of our client’s rights (case no. ID 000010832).

In two non-final judgments of 22 May 2019 (cases I SA/Wa 2145/18 and I SA/Wa 2146/18), the Province Administrative Court in Warsaw upheld the complaints by the firm’s clients against decisions by the commission for review of Warsaw reprivatisation cases, involving the property at ul. Smolna 32.

Wardyński & Partners has advised the Cromwell group in its acquisition of two companies from the Azora group.

Wardyński & Partners has advised Syndigo in its acquisition of WiseBase, a platform for exchange of information about products.

At the request of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, Wardyński & Partners is representing pro bono a resident of the National Centre for Combating Antisocial Behaviours in Gostynin, in a suit against the State Treasury for infringement of the plaintiff’s personal interests.

At the request of the Panoptykon Foundation, Wardyński & Partners is representing the Civil Society Drug Policy Initiative (Społeczna Inicjatywa Narkopolityki—SIN) pro bono in litigation against Facebook for infringement of personal interests.

Wardyński & Partners has advised the fund HgCapital in a transaction including investments in the Transporeon group, a leader in logistics programming.

Wardyński & Partners has advised Triton in a transaction in which funds advised by Triton have signed an agreement to sell the Cobex group, including Cobex sp. z o.o. (formerly SGL Carbon SA)—plants producing cathodes, furnace linings and carbon electrodes—to Tokai Carbon.

Wardyński & Partners has advised one of the EQT funds in a transaction in which it entered into an agreement to sell the Autostore group (including Autostore sp. z o.o.), a leading provider of warehouse automation systems, to Thomas H. Lee Partners.