Oleksandr Kuriachyi

  • Associate
@oleksandr.kuriachyi
oleksandr.kuriachyi@cwbip.com
+380 44 5830025

Oleksandr advises clients on various intellectual property matters in Ukraine and other countries in the region. He represents clients before the local customs authorities, the antimonopoly committee and the Ukrainian IPO. Oleksandr handles trademark, patent, design, and copyright litigation, and negotiates settlements in infringement cases. He also conducts IP due diligence and advises clients on IP management issues including licensing, assignments, and coexistence of rights.

Before joining the firm in 2021, Oleksandr spent 15 years as legal counsel handling IP and corporate legal matters at two other law firms and a real estate company in Ukraine. During this time, Oleksandr also worked as a law enforcement officer and a licensed insolvency practitioner.

Experience

  • Represented a multinational technology company in trademark enforcement matters

  • Successfully settled a trademark dispute involving a leading British online sports betting company

  • Represented a Serbian stationery company in acquiring IP assets in Ukraine

  • Advised a multinational media and digital marketing communications company on licensing issues

Qualifications
  • Attorney at Law, Ukrainian National Bar Association, 2017
Education
  • Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, USA, LLM in Trial Advocacy, 2024
  • Kharkiv University of Economics and Law, Kharkiv, Ukraine, Specialist Degree in Jurisprudence, 2008
  • Kharkiv University of Economics and Law, Kharkiv, Ukraine, BA in Jurisprudence, 2007
Languages
  • English
  • Russian
  • Ukrainian

Professional Activities

Publications
  • INTA
  • INTA General Trademark Enforcement Matters Subcommittee of the Enforcement Committee, 2024-2025 term
  • Diploma (Distinction) in English Law and Legal Skills awarded by the British Law Centre and Juris Anglia Scientia, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2021-2022
  • CopyrightX course organized online by Harvard Law School and Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, February-June 2022
  • IP Panorama course within the framework of the Advanced International Certificate Course (AICC), organized online by WIPO, KIPO, KAIST and KIPA, March-May 2022
  • WIPO – Ukraine Summer School on Intellectual Property organized online by WIPO, Ministry of Economy of Ukraine and Ukrpatent, July 2021
  • WIPO Academy Courses, DL-101 General Course on Intellectual Property, 2020