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Act of 30 June 2000 Industrial property law (Dz.U. z 2023 r. poz. 1170)
link to provision: https://isap.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/download.xsp/WDU20010490508/U/D20010508Lj.pdf
Article 273 Grounds, penalties
1. The examiner shall bear disciplinary responsibility for violation of service duties.
2. For the purpose of conducting proceedings and deciding in the cases referred to in paragraph (1), the President of the Patent Office shall appoint, from among the examiners, a disciplinary prosecutor and members of the Examiners’ Disciplinary Commission and the Examiners’ High Disciplinary Commission in a number enabling to form a bench.
3. When necessary, where the disciplinary prosecutor referred to in paragraph (2) is not able to act in the case, the President of the Patent Office may casually appoint a substitute of the disciplinary prosecutor.
4. The following shall be disciplinary punishments:
1) warning,
2) reprimand,
3) interdiction to occupy executive posts at the Patent Office,
4) interdiction to occupy examiner’s post.
5. In matters not regulated by this act, the provisions on disciplinary responsibility of civil servants shall apply accordingly to disciplinary responsibility of examiners.
