Intellectual Property

Intellectual property is one of the most valuable business assets. For this reason INYURPOLIS seeks to ensure reliable protection of its clients IP rights in Ukraine and abroad. Our expertize covers copyrights and related rights, industrial designs and utility models, trade marks and indications of origin, domain and trade names, commercial secrets and confidential information.

INYURPOLIS IP experts advised GRAY PLANT MOOTY Law Firm on franchise legislation of Ukraine. GRAY PLANT MOOTY represented Curves - one of the world's top franchisors (comprised of more than 10 thousand companies in 69 countries). Starting from 2007 INYURPOLIS acts as the legal counsel to JANSSEN-CILAG. In the course of our cooperation INYURPOLIS developed a strategy to protect the client's rights to pharmaceuticals against unfair actions by competiting companies and represented the client in courts. We gained extensive experience in due diligence of IP objects owned by companies. In 2008 our experts performed due diligence of IP objects owned by a major Ukrainian publishing house and a medical diagnostics and research company. We permanently advise major international IT companies EchoStar Corporation and Logica on such IP issues as protection of rights to trade secrets, confidential information and other IP objects, rights of employees to IP objects created in the course of performance of their professional duties .

We offer our clients the following services:

Registration of rights to IP objects;
Structuring and support in IP transactions (license, franchise and other agreements);
Due diligence of IP objects;
Preparation of legal opinions on IP regulations in Ukraine;
Development of strategies to protect the rights to IP objects;
Representation before the State Department for Intellectual Property of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, commercial, administrative and other courts, as well as before Ukrainian law enforcement authorities (prosecutor's office, agencies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine).