Sergiusz Sidorowicz from the Permanent Mission of Poland in Geneva confirmed the nomination to
Managing IP
and added that the official application will reach WIPO either tomorrow or on Wednesday morning.
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| Alicja Adamczak |
Alicja Adamczak has been the president of the Polish Patent Office since July 1 2002 and has been involved in the drafting of the Polish Industrial Property Law and other patent-related acts over the past decade.
Other posts she has held include the presidency of the Polish Chamber of Patent Attorneys and the chairwoman of the National Council of Patent Attorneys.
Admaczak has trained as a judge, and was a patent attorney, a legal adviser and a research worker at Technical University in Kielce.
She graduated from the Law and Administration Faculty at University of Warsaw in 1996 and produced a doctoral thesis entitled "Role of a patent agent in processing of a patent".
There are now six candidates for the DG post, and at least three more candidates are expected to be nominated in the next two days. The list so far is: Yoshiyuki Takagi from Japan, Enrique Manalo from the Philippines, James Otieno-Odek from Kenya, José Graça-Aranha from Brazil, José Delmer Urbizo Panting from Honduras, Philippe Petit from France and, now, Alicja Adamcyk from Poland.
WIPO member states have until 5pm on February 13 to nominate other candidates for the position.
