Victoria Sopilnyak, partner of Doubinsky & Osharova, gave a lecture on the practical aspects of termination of legal protection of a trademark to the students of the Legal High School course “Trademarks: the legal protection”.
Victoria focused attention of the students on the following issues:
- actions that may lead to termination of the protection title of trademark in accordance with the legislation of Ukraine;
- using of mechanisms to terminate a previously registered trademark that has not been used;
- grounds for refuse early termination;
- legislation that allows terminating the certificate of such designations which due to their prolonged use for the same product by different manufacturers have become specific or generic concepts.