Natalia Stetsenko
- Senior Associate
Natalia handles contentious IP matters with an accent on the enforcement of trademarks, industrial designs, patent rights and copyright. She also supports our clients with anti-counterfeiting services in Ukraine and other countries in the region. Natalia also has ample experience with the protection of plant variety rights.
Prior to joining the firm in 2017, Natalia worked for 18 years at a legal firm in Kyiv where her practice focused on the enforcement of patent and trademark rights, protection of plant variety rights and IP-related regulatory issues in the field of pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals.
Education
- Ukrainian Bar Academy, Kyiv, Ukraine, Specialist Degree in Law, 2010
- Ukrainian Bar Academy, Kyiv, Ukraine, LLB, 2009
- Kyiv Institute of Intellectual Property and Law, Kyiv, Ukraine, Specialist Degree in Intellectual Property, 2001
- Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine, MA in Linguistics, 1997
Languages
- English
- German
- Polish
- Russian
- Ukrainian
Professional Activities
Publications
"Patents - Ukraine". Lexology GTDT Practice Guides. Law Business Research. (July 2020)
Co-author of the Ukraine Chapter in WTR Anti-Counterfeiting Guide (2009-2015)
"Protecting plant variety rights in Ukraine". Floraculture International. CIOPORA Chronicle. (June 2014)
“Возражения принимаются” (“Objections to be accepted”). Юридическая практика (Ukrainian legal newspaper Legal Practice) (March 5, 2013)
Presentations
- Lecture on the basics of the Madrid System for the registration of trademarks. WIPO Summer School, Odessa, Ukraine, 2009
- Lecture on the basics of intellectual property law. Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs, Kharkiv, Ukraine, 2003
Membership
- INTA
Committees
- INTA Indigenous Rights Committee, 2020 - 2021 Term, 2022 - 2023 Term
- INTA Legislation and Regulation Committee, 2018–2019 Term
- INTA Anti-Counterfeiting Committee, 2015–2016 Term
- INTA Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee, 2014–2015 Term
- INTA Internet Committee, 2009–2011 Term
Activities
- Panelist at the FORUM (National Arbitration Forum, USA), an ICANN-approved domain name dispute resolution provider