PRESS RELEASE

January 18, 2012

Vasil Kisil & Partners Protects YOUTUBE’S Rights to Its Trade Mark and the youtube.ua Domain

Vasil Kisil & Partners represented world #1 video-sharing provider YouTube LLC in legal proceedings to prove that the YOUTUBE trade mark is well known in Ukraine, as well as to invalidate the certificate of “YOU TUBE” trademark wrongfully registered in Ukraine.

In addition to representing the client in related litigation, this project also included a comprehensive range of measures to ensure legal support in the process of re-delegating the youtube.ua domain, which had previously been delegated to an individual on the basis of an improperly registered trademark “YOU TUBE”.

As a result of VKP’s lawyers legal action the youtube.ua domain was removed from under the control of persons who illegally seized this domain name, and has been delegated to its rightful owner.

VKP’s associate Tetyana Kudrytska and counsellor Oleksandr Mamunya led by firm’s Partner Oleksiy Filatov carried out this mandate.

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For more details please contact Tatyana Efremova,
Head of PR/BD Department
Tel.: +380 44 581 7777
E-mail: pr@vkp.kiev.ua
About the Firm
Established in 1992, Vasil Kisil & Partners is a Ukrainian law firm that delivers integrated legal advice in banking & finance, mergers & acquisitions, capital markets, antitrust, competition and trade, dispute resolution, tax law, energy and natural resources law, intellectual property law, labor and employment law, real estate and construction law, as well as PPP, concessions and infrastructure law.

The firm`s clients include such world-known companies as Alpcot Agro, Africa-Israel Group, Astellas Pharma, BASF, Bayer Consumer, BNP Paribas, British American Tobacco, Central European Media Enterprises, Coca Cola, Credit Agricole Group, Danone, Dell Inc., Du Pont, Energy Standard Group, Eurosport, Google, IKB Deutsche Industriebank , LG Electronics, Leroy Merlin Ukraine, Lukoil, Metso Automation Oy, Moody’s, Mott MacDonald Limited, NCH Capital, Novacke chemicke zavody, Opel, Philips, Pioneer, Red Bull, Russian Standard Bank, St. Sophia Homes, SEB AB, SEB Group, Swedbank AB, Seven Hills, Shell, Standard Charted Bank, Tchibo, UniCredit Group, Vanco International / Vanco Energy, Volkswagen, VympelCom, YouTube.