The events of 2022 affected all spheres of public and private life in Ukraine and posed new challenges to the legal community and opened up new opportunities for improving legal regulation.
The sphere of protection of the intellectual property rights to inventions in the pharmaceutical industry was no exception. In particular, pharmaceutical companies faced problems caused by the introduction of supplementary protection of rights to inventions in the national legislation.
Olga Sopilnyak, the attorney-at-law in "Doubinsky & Osharova", and Yana Yaroshevska, a lawyer, in their article for Liga Zakon, analyzed in detail the norms of national legislation regarding the totality of conditions for right holders with the possibility of extending the validity of patents before the introduction of patent reform and after.
Olga and Yana paid particular attention to the restrictions that were introduced in connection with martial law in Ukraine.
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