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Every year the April issue of The Ukrainian Journal of Business Law traditionally takes a closer look at the Intellectual Property topic. In the #4 2020 Cover story interview, Victoria Sopilnyak, partner of “Doubinsky and Osharova”, talked about the main trends in the field of intellectual property in Ukraine, including the ongoing reform, inquiries from the clients, digitalization impact, and competition on the IP services market.

For the full text of the interview follow the link.

About the digitalization trend in the intellectual property practice and what consequences this could have for right holders, about the number of trademarks and patent disputes, challenges the IP practice will face in 2020 considering the future legislative changes and whether the bots will replace patent attorneys and IP lawyers in the nearest future please read in the comment of Victoria Sopilnyak, partner of Doubinsky & Osharova, for Yuridicheskaya Practika newspaper.

About main judicial trends in resolving IP-cases, namely, the courts’ approaches to the assessment of the expert opinions as, in fact, a substantial evidence in IP disputes, extension of terms of consideration of IP-related disputes, use of the preliminary injunction mechanism, as well as high expectations for the earliest launch of the High Intellectual Property Court please read in the comment of Victoria Sopilnyak, partner of “Doubinsky & Osharova”.

How did intellectual property practice develop in 2019, what challenges did our lawyers faced when defending intellectual property rights of our clients and thanks to which strategies did they win please read in the comment of Anton Koval – partner and lawyer of  “Doubinsky & Osharova”.

What is a “passport” for business and what competitive advantages does it give, how to ensure legal protection of the brand, how to optimize taxation with the help of intellectual property, how to fight patent trolls, whether artificial intelligence is able to create – about these and other aspects of the intellectual property please read in the interview of Tetyana Shpakovich, senior partner, Patent and Trademark Department Head of Doubinsky & Osharova, to the Family Office internet portal.

Partner of "Doubinsky & Osharova" Victoria Sopilnyak spoke about trends in patent litigation at the "IP Ukraine NOW" conference on November 1, 2019.

About the concept of exhaustion of intellectual property rights, to the students of Legal High School told Victoria Sopilnyak, partner of "Doubinsky & Osharova".

Partner of "Doubinsky & Osharova" Anton Koval gave a lecture to the students of Legal High School about the practice of applying Article 15-1 of the Law of Ukraine "On Protection against Unfair Competition" in IP cases.

Edition "Family Office", September 2019.

The text of the article is available in Ukrainian only.