Rafał Sikorski Ph.D. Attorney at Law. Partner.
In the firm Rafał Sikorski manages the Intellectual Property Department advising Clients on disputes and transactions within intellectual property, industrial property law, combating the unfair competition and competition law.
Rafał Sikorski provided legal counsel i.a. in large IT projects drawing-up contracts regarding computer software exploitation. He also led negotiations with entities managing the patent pools and patents enabling the use of standards leading to beneficial licence agreements  made according to the client’s needs. On a number of times he represented the firm’s Clients in the  disputes on the infringement of industrial property rights and copyright.
Rafał Sikorski graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan in 1999. In 2000 he received the title of LL.M. in International Business Transactions at Central European University in Budapest. Since 2005 he’s held a Ph.D. in legal science awarded by the Faculty of Law and Administration of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, where he currently works as an Assistant at the Chair of European Law. He was also a scholar at the TMC Asser Institute in the Hague.
His scientific accomplishments include a number of publications on copyright law, industrial property law, unfair competition law, competition law and private international law. Currently he is a co-editor of a series of an Outline of Intellectual Property Law (Zarys Prawa Własności Intelektualnej) published by Wydawnictwo C.H. Beck.
Within his scientific work he mainly focuses on relations between competition law and intellectual property law, with a particular emphasis on standardization and patent pools. Moreover, he deals with issues connected with determining the governing law for contracts concerning intellectual property law and infringements of such.