In 2015, Grupa Azoty S.A. applied to the Patent Office of the Republic of Poland for patent protection of the following two inventions:

• A product for removal of coatings and its manufacturing formula,
• The procedure for Beckmann rearrangement for oxime cyclohexanone.

The company also applied to the Patent Office of the Republic of Poland for the protection of two trademarks:

• “AS-21” combination (word and figurative) mark,
• “agro festa” combination (word and figurative) mark.

Furthermore:

• The company applied to two foreign patent offices (in Belarus and India) for the patent protection of an invention related to cyclohexane oxidation technology;
• By decision of March 25th 2015, the Patent Office of the Republic of Poland granted patent protection to Grupa Azoty S.A. for the invention “Process of production of cyclohexanone from phenol”;
• In a letter of July 14th 2015, the European Patent Office notified the company of the possibility of granting patent protection for the “Process of preparation of ammonium nitrate-sulfate”;
• In 2015, the company drew up and executed an agreement on joint patent rights with the New Chemical Syntheses Institute.

In 2015, Grupa Azoty PUŁAWY secured one patent for the invention “Method for decomposition of cyclohexyl hydroperoxides”.

On August 17th 2015, in connection with the implementation of the agreement of May 26th 2013 signed for the purpose of executing the project “Optimisation of drilling waste management methods”, Grupa Azoty PUŁAWY entered into the following agreements:

• Agreement for joint patent rights to the invention “Method for reclamation of drilling waste landfill site”,
• Agreement for joint patent rights to the invention “Method for production of a soil quality enhancement agent”,

Furthermore:

• On August 18th 2015 and August 19th 2015, respectively, the Company filed the following inventions with the Patent Office of the Republic of Poland: “Method for production of a soil quality enhancement agent” and “Method for reclamation of drilling waste landfill site”,
• On November 5th 2015, the company and Grupa Azoty KĘDZIERZYN signed a trademark licence agreement related to the use of the RSM® (UAN) trademark owned by Grupa Azoty PUŁAWY,
• On December 2nd 2015, the company and the New Chemical Syntheses Institute signed an agreement for the transfer of and joint rights to the final technology for desulfurization of the ammonium sulfate crystallization unit,
• On December 22nd 2015, the company and Elektrownia Puławy Sp. z o.o. signed a license agreement for the use of the Grupa Azoty PUŁAWY trademark and logo.