Victoria Sopilnyak, Partner of Doubinsky & Osharova, moderated one of the most interesting discussions during the VIII International Intellectual Property Forum (IPF-2021) - CORONAVIRUS CALLS FOR IP.
The spread of COVID-19 has significantly affected all aspects of human life, and the area of intellectual property is not an exception.
The participants of the 5th session of the forum discussed what problems the industry had faced, how the coronavirus crisis had affected IP rights in Ukraine and whether the coronavirus vaccine would become cheaper given the restrictions on the IP rights.
The discussion focused on the following issues:
- What Ukraine can expect? Where do we go when looking at the balance between ensuring the right to public health and the IP rights of certain right holders?
- The state's view on the corona hype
- Intellectual property: the accessibility of treatment of the future
- The view of the national pharmaceutical company: how the field of intellectual property contributes to prevent the spread of COVID-19
- Consequences of waiver of patent rights
Participants of the discussion:
Nataliia Buromenska – Deputy Chair - State Commissioner, Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine;
Inna SHATOVA - the Head of Industrial Property Legal Support Division of the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine;
Vitaliy Gordienko - Chairman of the Board, The Association of Pharmaceutical Research and Development (APRaD)
Dmytro Taranchuk – Director of Legal Affairs at Farmak;
Anton Kapitonenko - Associate at Baker McKenzie – Kyiv.