On April 5, 2023, one of the large-scale events in the field of intellectual property took place - the IX International Forum on Intellectual Property, organized by Yurydychna Praktyka.
Michael Doubinsky, the managing partner of Doubinsky and Osharova, moderated the forum's first session.
Opening the discussion, Michael Doubinsky emphasized that now Ukraine is in a situation where we have a mix of at least three components: we are at the stage of the IP administrative reform; we, as always, are at the stage of improving legislation; and еру war was imposed on all these – no other country has had such experience and situation.
The critical challenges of the IP sphere during the war and in the process of reconstruction of Ukraine, global trends in the protection of intellectual property rights, and European integration vectors of industry development were discussed:
Margarita Oksenyuk, Deputy Director of the Department – Head of the Department of Investment, Innovation and Intellectual Property of the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine
Iryna Kolos, Judge of the Commercial Court of Cassation of the Supreme Court
Dmytro Omelchenko, Head of the Department for Detection and Tracing in Cases of Recognition of Assets as Unjustified, Methodological Support and Law Enforcement of the Central Office of ARMA
Andriy Palladiy, leading specialist of ARMA
Olena Orliuk, Director of the State Organization "Ukrainian National Office for Intellectual Property and Innovation" (UANIPIO)
Dmytro Taranchuk, Legal Director, Farmak JSC
Vitaliy Belikov, Director of Legal Affairs Department, JSC "Ukrposhta"
Yaroslav Ognevyuk, Partner at Sayenko Kharenko
Oleksandr Mamunya, Managing Partner of Mamunya IP