Agata is Polish and has lived in Italy since 2003. She graduated in European Union Law at the University of Tours, France, in 2002 and later graduated in Polish Law at Warsaw University in 2003. In 2003, she obtained a masters in French Commercial Law at Warsaw University, in cooperation with University of Poitiers.
She has been a member of the Bar since 2007 and has been authorised to represent clients before the Supreme Court since 2020.
Her experience and international profile led Agata to manage several cases in different jurisdictions and to cooperate with foreign colleagues, sometimes coordinating their activities.
Agata’s focus is on intellectual property law and more specifically on patent and trade secrets litigation, but also on litigation in trade mark, design, software and unfair competition cases. Moreover, she assists clients in managing and protecting their IPR portfolios in Italy and abroad and is experienced in drafting and negotiating licensing and IPRs assignment agreements as well as R&D contracts.
For many years, she worked with – and was partner of – the law firm of Prof. Mario Franzosi in Milan, well known for IP law.
She regularly lectures for Convey, a prep course for Italian trade mark and patent attorneys. She has also been a member of the European Patent Lawyers Association (EPLAW) since 2013, of the Licensing Executives Society (LES), International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI), Women in IP association and a member of the IP and Antitrust Commission of the Bar of Milan (Patents and Trade secrets Group).
Agata is often invited as a speaker at seminars and conferences and is an author of many articles for law reviews specialised in IP.
Agata founded and lead Lexsential’s Polish Desk.
Check the titles of Agata’s papers and the list of the events where Agata Sobol was a speaker.
