The Ukrainian Bar Association offers to dive into the world of intellectual property together with leading industry experts and invites you to join IP UKRAINE NOW 2024, an event dedicated to an in-depth analysis of the current aspects of IP law. 

Date of the event: November 1, 2024.

Venue: Mercure Congress Сentre, Block C, 4 th floor, Dovzhenko Hall 3, 6 Vadyma Hetmana Str., Kyiv / online (Zoom).

This year's program of the event covers a wide range of topics related to state regulation in the field of protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights, in particular in the security and defense sector, pharmaceuticals. Particular attention will be paid to the current IP court practice and peculiarities of forensic examination of intellectual property.

09:30 - 10:00 Participant Registration. Welcome Coffee

10:00 - 10:10 Opening remarks

Tetiana Lysovets, Vice President of the Ukrainian Bar Association, Senior Partner at Sokolovskyi and Partners Law Firm

Tetiana Kharebava, Head of the UBA Committee on Intellectual Property, Head of the legal department at Sport Labs Group, Legal advisor at Meta.ua

Tetiana Ognevyuk, Deputy Chairman of the UBA Committee on Intellectual Property, Partner at AMBASSADORS

Victoria Sopilnyak, Partner at Doubinsky & Osharova 

10:10 - 11:40 SESSION 1. Ukraine's recovery and IP

Moderator:

Yaroslav Ognevyuk, Member of the UBA Board, Managing Partner at AMBASSADORS  

Topics and experts: 

1. Ukraine's Recovery: IP and innovation

Dmytro Huziy, Acting Head of the Intellectual Property and Innovation Department of the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine 

2. Do we need changes to Move Forward? Balancing public interests and intellectual property rights protection

Olena Orliuk, Director of the Ukrainian National Office for Intellectual Property and Innovations (IP Office) 

3. Military-Tech: the state of IP protection in defense. Patenting military inventions. Defense developments and their IP protection

Illia Kostin, Member of the Board of the Ukrainian Bar Association, representative of the Main Department of Military Justice 

4. Achievements of Ukrainian tech companies: industry outlook and future trends

Valeria Kushnerchuk, Executive Director at Diia.City.Union

11:40 - 12:10 Coffee Break

12:10 - 13:40 SESSION 2. Policy debate: At the current stage of the development, Ukraine shall stick to minimal standards for IPR enforcement

The debate will be handled according to Karl Popper format rules (http://cent.dn.ua/docs/manual_debate.pdf) and envisages two teams (affirmative and negative) of 3 debaters each who research both sides of an issue.

All the in-person attendees may adjudicate the debate.

Debaters:

Oleksandr Mamunya, Managing Partner at Mamunya IP, Deputy Chairman of the UBA Committee on Intellectual Property

Vitalii Savchuk, Partner at LA Law Firm

Daniel Benatov, Partner at Patent Bureau "Dr. Emil Benatov & Partners" in Ukraine

Anton Polikarpov, Managing Partner of Polikarpov Law Firm

Taras Kyslyy, Partner at Arzinger

Anastasia Homeniuk, Researcher at the Research Institute of Intellectual Property of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, expert of the project “TIPSTER: Trade, Intellectual Property Support and Technical Regulation”

13:40 - 14:10 Coffee Break

14:10 - 15:40 SESSION 3. IP Justice: When will we achieve efficiency?

Co-moderators: 

Tetiana Kudrytska, Partner at AEQUO

Victoria Sopilnyak, Partner at Doubinsky & Osharova 

Focus areas:

1. Trends in Ukrainian judicial practice: impact on IP protection strategies
2. Formation of a New Judicial IP Practice: Experience of the EU and Ukraine
3. Industry focus: effectiveness of protection from the perspective of major market players
4. Judicial IP expertise: the line between questions of law and fact
5. Will compensation for IP infringement become a reality? A review of judicial practice
6. "Broken" well-known status: will there be a retreat?
7. Case law: review of key legal positions

Experts:

Tetiana Chabanets, Acting Deputy Director - Head of the Kyiv Branch of the Bokarius Institute of International Economic Research of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine

Nataliya Dryuk, Partner at AEQUO

Liudmyla Zaporozhets, Head of the Division for Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights at IP Office 

Anton Koval, Partner at Doubinsky & Osharova

Oksana Marchenko, Deputy Head of the Council of Judges of Ukraine, Judge of the Kyiv Commercial Court 

Tetiana Ognevyuk, Partner at AMBASSADORS, Deputy Chairman of the UBA Committee on Intellectual Property 

Yevhen Petrov, Supreme Court Judge in the Civil Court of Cassation

Ihor Starodubov, Director of the State Enterprise “Center for Forensic Examination and Expert Research” of the State Judicial Administration of Ukraine, President of the NGO “Union of Experts of Ukraine” 

15:40 - 16:10 Coffee Break

16:10 - 17:40 SESSION 4. Intellectual Property in IT, media, communications

Moderator:

Tetiana Kharebava, Head of the UBA Committee on Intellectual Property, Head of the legal department at Sport Labs Group, Legal advisor at Meta.ua

Topics and experts: 

1. Presentation of the Recommendations on certain aspects of intellectual property law and AI

• 1.1. What to expect in AI regulation in the near future: the Ministry of Digital Transformation

Oleg Dubno, Legal advisor on the development of AI legal regulation at the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine

• 1.2. General overview of the recommendations for developers and rights holders

Olena Andrienko, Deputy Director of Legal Affairs at Publicis Groupe Ukraine, expert of the Expert Committee on Artificial Intelligence at the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine

• 1.3. Recommendations for users of AI systems: details on specific areas of AI output generation

Dmytro Doroshenko, Head of Creative Sectors Development Department at the Ukrainian National Office for Intellectual Property and Innovations (IP Office) 

2. Global cases of combining IP and AI in advertising. Tendency of social casino application in advertising

Alla Smorodyna, lawyer at Baker McKenzie

3. Protection of IP on the Internet in advertising/promotion of goods and services: on platforms and social networks, review of practice and interesting cases

Yulia Kolchenko, private practice 

17:40 - 19:00 Evening Reception. Networking

Grateful for invaluable support to our sponsors:

General Partners:

AMBASSADORS

Doubinsky & Osharova

Session Partners:

AEQUO

Baker McKenzie

MAMUNYA IP

META

Socially Responsible Partners:

LA Law Firm

Pakharenko and Partners

Wine partner:

Casillero del Diablo

Registration is required to participate in the event.

Participation is confirmed upon payment of the registration fee.

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The organizers reserve the right to close registration if the maximum number of participants is reached.

For additional information about the event, speaking opportunities, and partnership possibilities, please contact us at: Phone: +38 (063) 792-30-99 (calls via WhatsApp, Telegram, Viber) or email: tosaulenko@uba.ua. Contact person – Tetiana Osaulenko.

For media accreditation, write to pr@uba.ua. Contact person – Dmytro Cheretun.