News date: 3 June 2016
Irina Kirichenko, lawyer at Ilyashev & Partners Law Firm, Patent Attorney of Ukraine, acted as a moderator at the session “Trademarks, geographical indications and trade names” at the III Intellectual Property Forum – IPF 2016, held on June 02, 2016 in Kyiv.
Irina Kirichenko opened the session “Trademarks, geographical indications and commercial names” with a discussion of TM protection and fight against counterfeit goods in e-commerce.
During the session, specialists and experts of the state intellectual property legal protection system of Ukraine, lawyers and legal advisers discussed aspects of TM protection and fight against counterfeit goods in e-commerce. The Forum also focused on topical issues in accordance with its topic: world and Ukrainian tendencies of IP rights development of; judicial practice of consideration of cases on protection of intellectual property of the Supreme Court of Ukraine; questions of patent law and copyright, and intellectual property rights on the Internet.
Irina Kirichenko has 15 years of experience in the protection of intellectual property rights in court. The latest projects of Irina include: representation of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies JSC “Grindeks” (Latvia), JSC “Nizhpharm”, Takeda (Japan), Megainfarm GmbH (Austria), Feron (Moscow) in litigations on protection of their patent rights and rights to trademarks – names of medicinal products Mildronat, Cardiomagnyl, Chondroxide, Viferon.
Irina is recommended by international directories The Legal 500 – EMEA 2016 and Chambers Europe 2016 as one of the leading Ukrainian lawyers in intellectual property.
About the event
IPF 2016 visited more than 270 lawyers specializing in intellectual property rights protection, legal advisers, patent attorneys, legal experts, judges, representatives of public agencies. The event was organized by the Yurydychna Praktyka Publishing House.