Yuriy advises clients on all aspects of IP protection in Ukraine and other countries in the region, representing them before the courts, law enforcement and customs authorities and the antimonopoly committee. He handles trademark prosecution, unfair competition cases, IP rights assignments, enforcement strategies, settlements, trademark non-use revocation actions and helps clients prevent trademarks from becoming generic. He is also skilled in domain name transfers and Internet-related IP issues, including online infringement and defamation.
Before joining our firm in 2011, Yuriy worked as an in-house IP counsel at the Ukrainian vodka manufacturer Nemiroff, based in Kyiv. Prior to Nemiroff, Yuriy’s practice focused on corporate law.
Experience
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Represented an Italian wine consortium in unfair competition proceedings against a Ukrainian wine producer who groundlessly used a protected designation of origin mark on the packaging of their products
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Successfully litigated against the use of an original uniform with a logo of a culinary school by its alumna who advertised her own culinary courses wearing the uniform
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Represented an international school network and an NGO in trademark infringement cases
Qualifications
- Attorney at Law, Ukrainian National Bar Association, 2018
- Patent, Trademark and Design Attorney, Ukraine, 2016
Education
- Post-Graduate Course in Intellectual Property Law and New Technologies Law, Higher School of Professional Education, Wrocław, Poland, July 2024
- Intellectual Property Institute of the National University of the “Odessa Academy of Law”, Kiev, Ukraine, Master of Intellectual Property, 2014
- Institute of European Law at the National Law Academy in Odessa, Ukraine, LLM, 2005
Languages
- English
- Polish
- Russian
- Ukrainian
Professional Activities
Publications
“IP Protection in Ukraine during the Ongoing War”. FICPI IP News. FICPI. (May 12, 2022)
“Cake wars: confectioner Roshen sues ice cream maker Khladoprom over ‘Kyiv cake’ trademark”. World Trademark Review Daily. Globe Business Media Group. (April 16, 2020)
“Ukraine Drafts Amendments to Patent, Utility Model, Design and Trademark Legislation”. SMD Country Index. SMD Group. (November, 2018)
“Ukraine establishes IP court”. World Trademark Review. Globe Business Media Group. (December 6, 2017)
“EU-Ukraine Association Agreement: an Update”. World Trademark Review Daily. Globe Business Media Group. (March 2, 2015)
“IP Protection in Ukraine and Russia in Light of Crimean Conflict”. World Trademark Review Daily. Globe Business Media Group. (September 1, 2014)
“Ukraine case summary”. The Trademark Reporter Vol. 102 No.2. International Trademark Association. (March-April, 2012)
Contributor for Uzbekistan to the “Trademark Licensing Guide” Country Index. S.M.D. Markeur. (November, 2011)
Presentations
- "Abkhazia and South Ossetia: What IP Owners Need to Know", PETOŠEVIĆ Webinar on Special-Status Territories: Kosovo, Transnistria, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, BrightTALK, December 5, 2012
Membership
- INTA
- FICPI
Committees
- International Trademark Association Committee Member, Contributory and Secondary Liability Subcommittee of the Emerging Issues Committee, 2016 - 2017 Term
- International Trademark Association Committee Member, Development of Rights Subcommittee of the Emerging Issues Committee, 2014 - 2015 Term
- International Trademark Association Committee Member, The Issues of Proof Subcommittee of the Enforcement Committee, 2012 – 2013 Term
Courses
- New Technologies Law Course, Module IV: Cyber Security and IT Contracts, certificate issued by Akadémia C. H. BECK, Poland, May 2024
- Data Protection Officer training, certificate issued by the Polish Legal Education Centre, July 2023