Academic staff

Ph.D Lavinia Brancusi (Brâncuși)

General information

Lavinia Brancusi is an adiunkt at New Technologies Law Centre, Institute of Law Studies, Polish Academy of Science. She held her law degrees at Warsaw University, Faculty of Law and Administration (master, dr. iur.) with an awarded doctoral dissertation in EU design law. Previously she held academic positions at Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw, Faculty of Canon Law, with lectures in the field of Polish civil law and industrial property. She collaborates as an of counsel with IP law firms for issues related to product protection.

Research interest

Cumulative protection in intellectual property law; Designs and trade marks in the realm of new technologies; Functionality in trademark and design law; Civil law and intellectual property law ; Interfaces between intellectual property rights and competition rules, with a specific focus on brands

Additional information

Research projects:

  • Trade Marks’ Functionality in the EU Law. An approach embracing the US functionality doctrine and competition rules – habilitation project.
  • Unstandardised IP standards in the post-TRIPS world – Trade marks and designs perspectives.
  • Designer’s freedom and the scope of (un)lawful inspiration in design law.

Prizes:

The doctoral dissertation received the award of the Polish Minister of Science and Higher Education in the 2010 annual competition organized by the Polish Patent Office for the best dissertations in the field of industrial property.

Publications




Selected publications

ORCID

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7042-1084

ResearchGate

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lavinia_Brancusi

Website

http://www.laviniabrancusi.edu.pl

Contact

Office hours

Thursday, 14:00-16:00

Institute of Law Studies Polish Academy of Sciences

Nowy Świat 72 (Staszic Palace)
00-330 Warszawa
e-mail: inp@inp.pan.pl