There is no doubt that discussion of intellectual property has gained new areas of application and an international dimension. At the present time non-material assets play one of the key roles in business transactions of various types…
Eduard L. Tregubov
The existence of effective and flawless intellectual property legislation is a prerequisite for making Ukraine attractive for investment and ensuring appropriate conditions for doing successful business in our country. It is the government’s duty to ensure that a trademark owner can protect his rights and claim compensation for trademark infringement…
Natalia M. Meshcheriakova, Mikola Y. Pototskyy
New social and economic conditions that formed during the crisis and post-crisis periods resulted in great demand from the business community for the set of tools to protect business activities. Based on this trend, top managers of leading companies are seeking new mechanisms allowing for a greater degree of predictability of the risks that may lie in wait for their businesses…
Olena O. Hladyuk
Today, innovation policy plays a key role in handling many global environmental problems. It affects the development and dissemination of technical decisions to respond to the complex challenges posed by climate change…
Oleg O. Dorofeev
The market of FMCG products is becoming so saturated that sometimes it is difficult for small and midsize producers to compete using fair competition principles. As an additional factor which makes small companies using any and all means of survival on the market (including unfair ones) is that global market players (such as world-known producers of products) can afford to invest much more in advertising and general product distribution than small or mid-size companies…
Nataliya V. Misnik
Intellectual property is a rapidly changing area of the law which deals with the formulation, usage and commercial exploitation of original creative works. The majority of issues that arise within this area revolve around the boundary lines of intangible property rights and which of those rights are afforded legal protection…
Tetiana O. Kheruvimova, Iryna S. Polovets
Until recently geographical indications have been an unattractive area for research in Ukraine. However, in the least few years the situation has changed drastically as geographical indications (hereinafter — GIs) appeared to be a very sensitive and important issue in the course of EU–Ukraine FTA negotiations…
Karl Hepp de Sevelinges, Yelena A. Stasyk
It is no secret that all of us wish to possess something fashionable, something that will display particular status or underline exceptional feature of appearance or character. In this race for “something” very often people are caught by manufacturers of counterfeit goods who offer the same things for a cheaper price…
Olena O. Vardamatska
It is a well-known maxim that only new technologies (hitech products) will pave the way to a rich and prosperous Ukraine, meaning both the state and citizens. But the opposite is presently true. Technoparks were brave and bold enough to appear, successful enough to exist and now they are showing enormous persistence to continue existing, although it is more than difficult…
Alena A. Chernyavskaya, Nataliya V. Koloskova
The first issue of the Yuridicheskaya Practika Weekly was published 16 years ago in 1995. Since then the tradition to celebrate the Yuridicheskaya Practika’s birthday is preserved year on year. This year turned out to be no exception and practicing lawyers again celebrated one of their professional holidays on 15-17 March. Each year the organizer of the celebration, the Yuridicheskaya Practika Publishing, arranges events of a different kind which fluctuates from practical seminars and round tables to a bowling tournament among lawyers…
In terms of the great variety of networking events in the Ukrainian capital, their arrangement became not only the new fashionable trend or lifetime occupation but an art to create a unique atmosphere and positive feedback for bringing together business people…
