Anna Kobylańska

Anna Kobylańska

Anna Kobylańska is an advocate, and member of the Warsaw Bar Association. Prior to establishing her own law firm, she practised in intellectual property, new technologies and personal data protection law in international law firms for more than a decade. Anna specialises in legal counselling in the field of personal data protection, copyright, industrial property rights, media and advertising law, and the law of new technologies. She has many years of experience in leading projects relating to internet domain name protection, use of new technologies to collect and process personal data (IoT, Big Data, behavioural targeting), and IT systems implementation. She was also on board with projects concerning the assessment of the potential of technological start-ups in the context of the intellectual property generated by them. As regards the implementation of the EU GDPR requirements, she has worked for clients in the financial, media, automotive, retail, pharmaceutical, and business consulting sectors. Anna is the author of one of the first books in Poland on ‘Protection of Trademarks on the Internet’ and the co-author of ‘Data Protection in Business Practices’ and ‘Protection of Trademarks: Online Use and Anticybersquatting. A European Perspective’. For several terms she has been involved in the works of the committees of the International Trademark Association (INTA; an international association of trademark protection specialists), including in 2016–2017 on the Personal Data Protection Committee. She lectures at the Hugo Grotius Intellectual Property Centre. She is a member of the European Advisory Board of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) and a member of the EC Multistakeholder Expert Group to Support the Application of GDPR.

Publications

Data Protection | 3mos

Chapter: Poland

In an increasingly connected world, understanding data protection laws across borders is essential. The Law Over Borders Comparative Guide to Data Protection provides an insightful, country-by-country summary of key privacy obligations. From the EU’s GDPR to regulations in emerging markets, this g...

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