Dr Piotr Mijal, LL.M. is a recognised intellectual-property lawyer in Poland, combining practitioner experience with academic insight. He is admitted as an attorney-at-law (PL: radca prawny) to the Cracow Bar Association (PL: Okręgowa Izba Radców Prawnych in Kraków) and pursues academic research with international ties, enabling counsel that bridges Polish company, IP & IT law with comparative and international aspects. He specialises in contract drafting, copyright, software & licensing matters.
Dr Mijal handles the full lifecycle of IP matters, from software development agreements to licensing, assignments and copyright transfers. He also drafts bespoke SaaS and service agreements.
Dr Mijal also focuses on privacy and personal-data protection, including GDPR audits, data processing agreements, privacy notices and information clauses, and transfers of personal data, including transfers outside the EEA. He also drafts privacy policies, cookie policies and data-security policies.
Dr Mijal earned his Ph.D. from the Jagiellonian University, Faculty of Law and Administration, where his dissertation addressed the removal of a shareholder from a private company, reflecting deep expertise in company law and corporate governance. He also holds an LL.M. and works in Polish, German and English, which supports cross‑border cases.
Complementing his IP work, Dr Mijal also has particular expertise in entity formation, corporate governance, shareholder disputes, equity transfers and statutory changes. His doctoral research into shareholder exclusion demonstrates a particular strength in contentious shareholder matters and minority‑shareholder protection.
Dr Mijal publishes regularly on legal aspects of new technologies and corporate digitalisation through specialist blogs and practitioner articles, maintaining two sector‑focused blogs that address practical contract drafting, regulatory updates and tax‑law intersections. These publications are used as practical guides to negotiating contracts and understanding copyright implications for software and digital content.
Dr Mijal retains academic links with universities in Heidelberg and Salzburg and is listed among experts at the Adam Smith Centre, reflecting an ongoing role in comparative research and policy discussion. He is active as a speaker and instructor at professional programmes, including company‑law summer schools and sector conferences, where he addresses the intersection of corporate governance, digital transformation & IP protection. These engagements reinforce his profile as a practitioner who integrates scholarship with problem‑solving.
Dr Mijal combines academic rigour with a pragmatic, commercial focus: he frames IP issues within transactional and governance contexts, seeks solutions that preserve operational agility and drafts contract language intended to hold up in enforcement. His multilingual capacity and international academic connections make him a great match for German‑Polish and broader Central European cases. He emphasises preventive law (clear assignment language, well-structured licences and dispute-avoidance measures) alongside readiness to support enforcement when necessary.
Poland’s IP landscape is shaped by EU harmonisation, evolving case law on copyright in the digital environment and growing emphasis on data protection & platform liability. Businesses face practical challenges: securing clear chain‑of‑title for software, drafting licences that work across jurisdictions, managing open‑source risk and balancing IP protection with GDPR obligations. At the same time, poorly drafted IP provisions can undermine value and create enforcement difficulties.
Dr Piotr Mijal, LL.M., is an attorney-at-law (radca prawny) in Poland. He holds a Ph.D. from Jagiellonian University and has professional proficiency in Polish, German and English, combining practitioner experience with academic research in IP, IT and company law.
Dr Mijal focus is on drafting software-development, SaaS and service agreements, licensing and assignment contracts, copyright transfers. He also specalises in personal data and company law matters.
Dr Mijal concentrates on entity formation, corporate governance, shareholder disputes, equity transfers and statutory changes, with expertise in contentious matters such as shareholder exclusion and minority-protection arising from his doctoral research.
Dr Mijal emphasizes preventive law (clear assignment language, robust licenses and dispute-avoidance measures) and leverages multilingual and international academic links for cross-border cases.
Securing chain of title for software, drafting cross-border licences, managing open-source risk and aligning IP strategy with GDPR and platform-liability issues.
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