On October 12, 2011 Vasil Kisil & Partners hosted an intellectual property rights webinar, organized by the Students League of the Ukrainian Bar Association.

The webinar was held by Tetyana Kudrytska, attorney with Vasil Kisil and Partners law firm. She shared her insight on the specifics of the patent rights protection in Ukraine with the younger generation of lawyers, simultaneously gathered in Kyiv, Dnepropetrovsk, Donetsk, Lviv and Odessa.

The webinar was held in the format of two sessions that consisted of a presentation and a Q&A session. Ms. Kudrytska told the on-line audience about the most applicable and effective legal mechanisms for protecting rights to inventions, utility models and industrial designs. In reviewing the major categories of patent disputes in Ukraine Tetyana shared with the audience her observations on the key aspects that define the strategy and tactics for addressing violations of patent rights.

The second session of the webinar featured case studies, which showcased three models of the most widespread patent disputes in the Ukrainian judicial practice, using as an example the protection of patent rights in the pharmaceutical and agrochemical industries. This format allowed participants to simulate different situations that typically arise in the process of resolving such disputes, and look at them, both in terms of the plaintiff, and from the standpoint of the defendant.

Ms. Kudrytska noted that any theoretical knowledge acquired by students begins to be of great value and actually starts for work for them when it is backed by skills and experience. That is why, taking into account the complexity of the webinar on the protection of patent rights, the students were asked to consider the most interesting of the practical issues based on the examples of the situations conceptualized during the webinar.

During the Q&A session, students have expressed a particular interest in problems associated with recording the evidence on the Internet, the prospects of "preventive" actions in the system of protecting the IP property rights, as well as in other relevant aspects of the development of patent rights in Ukraine.

Overall, the webinar was attended by approximately 85 students from the abovementioned cities.