Jan Tamulewicz

Jan Tamulewicz helps protect his clients’ brands nationally and internationally, providing cost-effective trademark filing and enforcement strategies to keep his clients’ IP safe. Jan manages international brand protection programs for iconic brands across industries, including fashion, apparel, retail services, consumer electronics, publishing, banking, and financial services. He has extensive experience before the US Patent and Trademark Office and corresponding tribunals around the world. He is also admitted in Europe and possesses knowledge of trademark law in countries around the world, helping several prominent clients enforce their intellectual property rights in China.

Jan regularly handles matters before the World Intellectual Property Organization, and also serves as his clients’ liaison with foreign counsel on intellectual property matters in almost every country in the world.

Prior to practicing law, Jan was an assistant professor at Adam Mickiewicz University School of Law in Poznan, Poland, where he taught Polish administrative procedures and procedures before the Polish Administrative Supreme Court. He also was admitted as a judge in Poland. Jan is fluent in Polish and Russian, proficient in French and has a working knowledge of most Slavic languages.

Core Competencies

• Trademark
• Trade Dress
• Alternative Dispute Resolution
• Trade Secret Counseling
• Corporate Agreements
• Intellectual Property Litigation
• International Protection
• False Advertising
• Copyright
• Patents

Presentations & Publications

• May 2022: Jan Tamulewicz presented “Trademark, Patent and Copyright Protection in the United States” in Lodz, Poland
• September 2019 – Jan Tamulewicz presented “Trademark and Trade Dress Protection in the United States” to the Polish patent and trademark attorneys in Warsaw, Poland
• July 2018 – Jan Tamulewicz presented “Trademark and Trade Dress Protection in the United States” to the Polish patent and trademark attorneys in Gdansk, Poland.
• December 2017 – Jan Tamulewicz presented “Certain Aspects of US Trademark Prosecutions” to the Polish patent and trademark attorneys in Poznan, Poland
• February 11, 2015 – Jan Tamulewicz was a part of a panel presentation on Fashion Licensing and Brand Protection in New York.
• May 9-10, 2005 – Jan Tamulewicz conducted an ABA Workshop for Polish Judges on Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights in the United States in Prague, Czech Republic.
• July 2002 – Jan Tamulewicz presented “Trademark and Trade Dress Protection in the United States” to the Polish patent and trademark attorneys, law firms and private companies in Warsaw, Poland.