As part of the preparing for the official screening on the Ukrainian legislation compliance with EU acquis under negotiating Chapter 7: “Intellectual Property Law”, a 2^nd mock session of the bilateral meeting between Ukraine and the European Commission to assess the Ukrainian legislation compliance with the EU acquis was held during 21 – 22 November, 2024.

 

The purpose of the mock session is to prepare Ukrainian negotiators for further meetings with the European Commission.

 

During the first day of the session, updated and revised materials on industrial property rights, law enforcement and anti-corruption measures were presented, and during the second day – on copyright and related rights.

 

Welcoming the participants of the event on behalf of the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine, Dmytro Huzii, Acting Head of the Intellectual Property and Innovations Division, expressed his gratitude to the experts from EU4IP, CPVA, GIZ, as well as colleagues from the EU Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) and the European Patent Office (EPO) for their comments and suggestions on the prepared materials.

 

Bogdan Paduchak, First Deputy Director of the UANIPIO, emphasized that the European experts provided extremely valuable and appropriate advice on the content of the materials that the Ukrainian side will present to the European Commission, noting:

 

“Before the second mock session, we tried to take into account all the expert recommendations and to anticipate those aspects that may be of interest to the European Commission in the context of the negotiations on Title 7, which deals with intellectual property law. Now the materials will be updated and finalized once again to fully cover all the intellectual property issues before the Europeans.”

 

From the UANIPIO the presentations were delivered by:

 

• Bogdan Paduchak, First Deputy Director;

 

• Vladyslav Bilotskyi, Deputy Director;

 

• Liubov Maidanyk, Deputy Director;

 

• Mykola Pototskyi, Advisor to the Director;

 

• Oleksii Ardanov, Deputy Head of the Department – Head of the Copyright and Related Rights Unit;

 

• Tetiana Terekhova, Head of the TM and GI law Unit;

 

• Oleksandra Kosenko, Head of the IPR’s Infringement Monitoring Centre.

 

 

The presentations were also made by Maryna Taran, Chief Specialist of the European Integration Unit, International Cooperation and European Integration Division of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, Anna Shtefan, Head of the Copyright and Related Rights Department of the Research Institute of IP of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and Dmytro Huzii.

 

The experts provided feedback and recommendations for the parties to the negotiations:

 

• Rovena Beqiraj (EU4IP);

 

• Žilvinas Danys (CPVA);

 

• Ibon Ormazabal (EUIPO);

 

• Sylvie Strobel, Antoine Rety, Antoine Rety (EPO)

 

• and also colleagues from the Patent Office of the Republic of Latvia – Ieva Paula Drexler and Dace Liberte.

 

 

The event was organized with the support of the Government Office for Coordination of European and Euro-Atlantic Integration and the Reform Support Team (RST) of the Ministry of Economy.

 

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