On November 26^th 2018 Dziennik Gazeta Prawna published an article by Andrzej Przytuła, advocate and partner, and Paweł Poznański, lawyer: „How to register a design/shape (of pasta)?”

Nowadays there are more and more designers or enterpreneurs that are well informed about how to protect their work (copyrights), designs (industrial designs), logos (trademarks) and inventions (patents). Nevertheless, there are still people who would ask the question: how can I register my design? Professional experts who advise on designs in Poland and EU would answer immediately that there is no possible solution to patent a design. And what if their client has replied that he has recently heard about an Italian producer who had registered the design/shape of the pasta? (…)

The whole publication is available on Gazeta Prawna’s website (in Polish only): https://prawo.gazetaprawna.pl/artykuly/1361642,prawo-patentowe-jak-opatentowac-wzor-makaronu.html