Joanna Dargiewicz is a partner at WTS Patent Attorneys and a Polish and European patent attorney specialising in the solutions in the areas of life sciences, especially chemistry and pharmacy, and patent searches. She holds a PhD in chemistry.

She graduated in chemistry with excellent grades from the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin. Her MSc thesis, prepared at the Laboratory of Fibre Optic Technology of the Departmentof Chemistry, concerned the mechanical properties of polyurethane-coated fibre-optic cables. During doctoral studies at the Department of Chemistry of the MCSU, Joanna received an Erasmus scholarship for research at the University of Limoges, France, on the synthesis of glycosylated porphyrins. After returning to Poland, in 2001 she defended her PhD dissertation on the synthesis and properties of porphyrin complexes with lanthanides introduced into silica matrices obtained by the “sol-gel” method, at the Department of Inorganic Chemistry of the Faculty of Chemistry, MCSU.

For many years now, she has been involved in translating scientific articles and patents from the fields of chemistry, biochemistry, biotechnology, pharmacy, and medicine as well as in analysing patents and scientific articles to gather information about new compounds and chemical substances for international databases of chemical compounds (Beilstein and MDL).

Joanna obtained a post-graduate diploma in Industrial Property Law at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw. She also underwent the attorney course offered by the Polish Chamber of Patent Attorneys. She is a Polish patent attorney and is also licensed to represent clients before the European Union Intelectual Property Office (EUIPO) in matters relating to European Union trademarks and community industrial designs.

As a Polish patent attorney and since 2012 partner at WTS Patent Attorneys, Joanna deals with the patent protection of chemical and pharmaceutical inventions. She is involved in the commercialisation of inventions emerging from this scientific field. She also specializes in patent searches. Joanna is a member of the Polish Chamber of Patent Attorneys.

In 2016 she passed the European Qualifying Examination and her name was entered on the list of professional representatives before the European Patent Office.

She is a member of PIRP, EPI, INTA, AIPPI, and an observer at APAA.