Intellectual Property

About

Provided by Baker McKenzie

The Kyiv office of Baker McKenzie provides a full spectrum of services and solutions to protect, manage and enforce the IP rights of international and local companies in Ukraine, in the ex-CIS region and all over the world.

Our focus is on comprehensive services in connection with structuring transactions related to intellectual property and information technologies, securing the intellectual property rights of our clients in Ukraine, including registration of trademarks and patents in Ukraine, and protecting clients against unfair business practices.

In addition to protection, we also specialize on the enforcement of IP rights in Ukraine. We have broad experience in trademark and patent litigation, online enforcement, planning and executing offline enforcement campaign including on the open-air markets and other locations though out Ukraine. Our strong at the border IP enforcement practice helps clients to monitor and prevent importation of unauthorized and counterfeit imports to Ukraine. We are early navigators of all new enforcement opportunities, including the modified UDPR action that has recently became available to domain names in .com.ua domain name zone.

We are the only firm to offer a technology platform that gives clients real-time access to their global trademark portfolios, an online monitoring system covering customs procedures in 55 countries, and a dedicated support centre to reduce costs and hassles of global trademark management.