Lately the popularity and value of immaterial assets have been continuously
increasing. The main reason for this is the specific character of objects of
the immaterial world. Firstly, their performance is the result of a creative
process. Secondly, due to its paramount ‘immateriality’, protection of the
rights of the authors of the above objects has its own specific character. And
thirdly the value of such objects has a different nature among other property
values, and it is difficult to appraise their real cost. The above factors cause
numerous peculiarities of legal regulation in this sphere.
The main focuses of our legal
assistance are:
- Obtaining protection documents
- Protection of:
- copyright and adjacent rights
- rights of trade marks, trade names, trade symbols, service marks, goods
origin signs
- rights of inventions, utility models, industrial designs
- rights of domain names
- rights of commercial secrets
- personal data
- intellectual property rights within the World Wide Web
- businesses against unfair competition
- Use of objects of intellectual property rights in advertising
- Drafting and concluding agreements on the disposition of property rights
- Consulting on issues of taxation of operations, relating to the use of
objects of the intellectual property right
- Concluding of franchise/commercial concession agreements
- Representation in courts and other state authorities
Our lawyers have been involved in the following landmark projects:
- Advising Belvedere on trademark voidance proceedings;
- Advising multinational alcoholic beverage manufacturer in a trademark dispute and subsequent infringement litigation in commercial courts and courts of general jurisdiction and on issues related to discrepancies in the scope of protection provided on the Ukrainian national level and by the World Intellectual Property Organization;
- Advising Zagorie, well-known Ukrainian travel agency, in trademark infringement action;
- Advising Marcom, one of the biggest Ukrainian alcoholic beverages distributors, on regulation of import of alcoholic beverages with protected trade marks into Ukraine and on entering into licence agreement.
