Abstract

This article discusses selected provisions of the Industrial Property Act of 17 September 2013 relating to the issue (institution) of legally (statutorily) protected secrets, as well as attempts to answer a question whether the provisions of the Industrial Property Act actually regulate such secrets. Of special interest are those provisions of the said Act which refer to the duty of confidence by the Patent Office of the Republic of Poland as regards applications for individual industrial property objects to the extent in which it provides information on the applications for those objects and discloses application files to entities indicated in the regulations, as well as the issue of classified inventions in the context of legally protected secrets, as well as the issue of the duty of confidence of experts of the Patent Office of the Republic of Poland.