Iga Balos earned a Ph.D. degree in law in 2015 and her thesis concerned arbitration in patent disputes. She is an Assistant Professor at AFM Krakow University, where she teaches patent law, and of counsel in the patent law office in Krakow. She is one of only three authors from Poland who sent their amicus curiae to European Patent Office in famous G3/08 case concerning patentability of programs for computers.