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The Ukrainian IP Office deepens cooperation with the Patent Office of Latvia: management meeting

The Ukrainian National Office for Intellectual Property and Innovations delegation’s working visit to the Baltic countries continues.

On 12 June 2024, the delegation of the Ukrainian National Office for Intellectual Property and Innovations consisting of Olena Orliuk, the Director of the IP Office, and Liubov Maidanyk, the Deputy Director of the IP Office, visited the Patent Office of the Republic of Latvia and the Ministry of Justice of Latvia. There, they also met with representatives of the Ministry of Culture of Latvia.

At the Patent Office of the Republic of Latvia, the delegation participated in a working meeting with the Director of the Patent Office, Agris Batalauskis, as well as with the heads of the Patent Office’s departments for development and international cooperation, patents, trademarks and industrial designs and technical support and the Patent Office’s staff.

Olena Orliuk thanked Agris Batalauskis for his previous visit to Kyiv as part of the European delegation in the fall of 2023. She also thanked all colleagues from the Patent Office of Latvia for supporting Ukraine in these difficult and unprecedented times.

The Director of the Ukrainian IP Office informed about the main stages of the IP reform in Ukraine and the challenges in the IP Office’s functioning in view of the institutional formation in the conditions of the russian war of aggression against Ukraine. Olena Orliuk talked about the main structural subdivisions of the Ukrainian IP Office and their functional purpose. She noted that in 2023, statistical data on the received applications for IP rights showed positive dynamics.

“This proves that businesses, innovators, inventors and creators have been able to adapt to the challenges of wartime, to power outages and communication disruptions and to adjust their activities. We in Ukraine perfectly understand that we have to move the IP sphere forward, we have to ensure reliable intellectual property rights protection, and, therefore, ensure the stability of the national economy”, – said Olena Orliuk.

She also shared the main achievements of the Ukrainian IP Office, including:

  • the 2024–2028 Strategic Development Plan of the Ukrainian IP Office,
  • the Information dashboard containing the Ukrainian IP Office’s activity indicators for 2023,
  • the European Integration IP Digest,
  • the Report on Green Technologies, Innovations and Intellectual Property (link in Ukrainian),
  • a dashboard of innovative and IP maps of Ukraine (link in Ukrainian).

Liubov Maidanyk spoke about the key events within the scope of the EU IP institutions cooperation. One of the projects on Ukraine's European integration path is the launch of the EU4IP project, aiming at the cooperation between the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) and national intellectual property offices – including, in particular, the UANIPIO (Ukrainian IP Office), National Intellectual Property Center SAKPATENTI and the AGEPI Agency of Moldova – to strengthen intellectual property rights in Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova with the support of the EU. The Project’s official inauguration took place at the end of March 2024 with the participation of representatives from the EUIPO, Georgia and the EU Representation in Moldova and the European national IP Offices of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Romania as part of the Team Europe initiative.

During the meeting, there were also discussed:

  • Harmonization of Ukrainian practices in the fields of patents, trademarks, industrial designs and geographical indications with the EU member states,
     
  • European Union trademark registration systems (EUTM) in EU member states,
     
  • Cooperation with EUIPO and EPO,
     
  • The latest IT technologies in the administration of intellectual property rights and activities,
     
  • Development of IP culture and IP education in countries,
     
  • Elaboration on national IP strategies.

Also, the delegation of the Ukrainian IP Office together with the Minister of Justice Inese Lībiņa-Egnere, the Director of the Patent Office Agris Batalauskis and the Senior Customs Expert Egils Mysitis joined the campaign under the auspices of the EUIPO to increase public awareness “Counterfeit - Amazing Kit”. During the campaign, an exposition was presented, within which the organizers offered the attendees to learn the methods of identifying fake works of art and goods.

     

Also, Director and Deputy Director of the Ukrainian IP Office held meetings with representatives of the Ministry of Justice of Latvia, during which they discussed current legislative challenges in the IP field in the context of the European integration processes. There was also held meeting with the representatives from the Ministry of Culture of Latvia in the framework of which they exchanged opinions on EU regulation in the field of copyright and related rights and the impact of the AI technology development on copyright. Particular attention was paid to Latvia’s experience in the activities of the copyright collective management organisations and the establishment of the system for royalties’ distribution.

 

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13 June 2024