Taras advises clients on all aspects of patent protection and handles patent prosecution, enforcement and litigation in Ukraine and other countries in the region. He has extensive experience in preparing, filing and prosecuting patent applications in the fields of medicine, pharmacology, biotechnology and chemistry. Taras also handles the protection of plant breeder’s rights and the admission of plant varieties to national lists.
Prior to joining the firm in 2020, Taras worked for nine years as a patent expert at a regional IP firm with an office in Kyiv. Previously, his career in research and academia spanned 13 years and focused on bacterial pathogenicity, environmental biotechnology and bacterial biosensors. During this time, Taras worked as a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin and at Lund University in Sweden, and as an engineer at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Taras also worked as a patent liaison for a Ukrainian pharmaceutical company.
Experience
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Advised and assisted two well-known consumer goods companies with patent filings and prosecution in Armenia
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Coordinated plant variety application filing in multiple countries for a multinational plant breeding company
Qualifications
- Patent Attorney, Ukraine, 2017
Education
- Intellectual Property Institute of the National University of “Odessa Academy of Law”, Kyiv, Ukraine, Specialist Degree in Intellectual Property, 2015
- Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden, PhD in Medical Microbiology, 2009
- Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine, Specialist Degree in Biology and Microbiology, 1998
Languages
- English
- Russian
- Swedish
- Ukrainian
Professional Activities
Publications
"How to Invalidate a Patent in Ukraine – a Quick Guide", INNOVATE Magazine, AIPLA. (2022)
“Biosensor Monitoring of Microbial Treatment of Wastewater from Nonylphenol Polyethoxylates under Flow-through Conditions”, Applied Biochemistry and Microbiology: 47(9): 844–849. (2011)
“Immune Evasion of Moraxella Catarrhalis Involves Ubiquitous Surface Protein A-Dependent C3d Binding”, The Journal of Immunology: 186(5): 3120-9. (2011)
“Moraxella–Dependent a1-antichymotrypsin Neutralization: A Unique Virulence Mechanism”, American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology: 38(5): 609-617. (2008)
“Purification of a1-antichymotrypsin from Human Plasma with Recombinant M. Catarrhalis Ubiquitous Surface Protein A1”, Journal of Immunological Methods: 333: 180-185. (2008)
“Hamlet; A Novel Tool to Identify Apoptotic Pathways in Tumor Cells”, chapter in Application of Apoptosis to Cancer Treatment, M. Sluyser (ed.), Springer. (2005)
“Continuous Acetonitrile Degradation in a Packed-Bed Bioreactor”, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology: 66(5): 567-574. (2005)
“Bacteria-Degraders as the Base of an Amperometric Biosensor for Detection of Anionic Surfactants”, Biosensors and Bioelectronics: 17(8): 635-640. (2002)
Membership
- INTA
- AIPLA