Conversation with Anna Pasiut

Anna Pasiut is patent and trademark attorney with almost 20 years of experience in the field of IP protection gained in private practice and as an EUIPO employee. Since 2001 she has been working at Sulima, Grabowska, Sierzputowska Patent and Trademark Attorneys, Warsaw, Poland, where since 2019 she holds positions of a business development director and acting head of trademark department. Since 2011 Anna has been also a member of the ECTA Law Committee, which helps to shape the EU trademark and design law and practice. 

Anna was born in beautiful mountain region in the South of Poland. As the oldest child and a sister to three younger brothers since the early years she developed her leadership skills and great sense of responsibility . 

As a child Anna wanted to become a doctor to heal people and thus studied biology and chemistry as her majors during grammar school.

As a young teenager Anna started to travel abroad and this had made a really big impact on her and her future choices. During her travels she understood that she wanted traveling to be part of her work and that she wanted to work with people from different countries. This is probably one of the reasons why, shortly before the secondary school final exams, Anna decided to study law instead of medicine. It was not an easy decision and required a lot of courage and hard work, but she managed to get through all her exams with very good results and has become the first lawyer in her family. 

Her “adventure” with the IP law started in 2001 when, quite by chance, she went for an interview with the firm she has been working ever since. Very quicky after starting to work in the IP field she realised that it was one of the most international branches of law, very interesting and with lots of opportunities to develop. The rest is history … 

In her free time Anna likes to read books and watch movies, in particular independent movies from different parts of the world. She loves music and live concerts (opera, jazz, rock, ladino, etc.). She also loves travelling, meeting new people and experiencing different cultures and different types of food. Physical activity has been always an important part of her life – she likes running, bike riding and mountain trekking. 

Anna believes that in life as well as in work it is important not only to be hard working, but also to be open and to look up for different opportunities. She also thinks that new, challenging tasks and duties are the ones that let us grow and learn the most. 

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