Ukraine

Firm overview

We are an IP Law Firm with headquarters in Kyiv, Ukraine, with a tight-knit team of professionals, who have more than 18 years of experience. Crane IP specializes in comprehensive intellectual property law services across Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, and other CIS countries.

We have gained many years of experience in the sphere, collected the best practices and approaches to doing business, and founded our own project designed to increase the quality and speed of customer service to the next level.

Crane IP Law Firm is committed to delivering high-quality, tailored IP services, ensuring the protection and advancement of clients' intellectual property rights across multiple jurisdictions.

With a team of professionals boasting over a decade of experience, the firm offers tailored solutions in various IP domains: Trademarks, Patents, Industrial Designs, Copyright, IP Rights Protection (in-court and off-court), Product Compliance.

Firm overview

With extensive global reach and deep local expertise, we offer an unparalleled
blend of skills to help our clients navigate the complexities and seize the
opportunities of doing business in Singapore and across the Asia Pacific region. Baker McKenzie Wong & Leow, a joint law venture between Baker McKenzie and
Wong & Leow LLC, stands at the forefront of legal excellence.

We have the capabilities to offer comprehensive advice on both domestic
Singapore law and intricate cross-border issues, ensuring our clients receive
holistic and seamless legal support. As the preferred counsel for numerous
companies leveraging Singapore as a strategic hub for their regional operations,
our lawyers excel in managing multijurisdictional transactions and mitigating
cross-border risks with precision.

Our Singapore office is seamlessly integrated into a global network,
providing on-the-ground expertise across ASEAN countries and access to
Baker McKenzie’s expansive international network. This unique positioning
enables us to adeptly support the diverse domestic and international needs
of our clients, delivering tailored solutions that drive success in a dynamic
global market.

Firm overview

MIKHAILYUK, SOROKOLAT & PARTNERS is a patent, trademark, and design partnership established in 1992 by Mr. Valentin Mikhailyuk. At present, we are one of the largest IP law companies in the countries of the former Soviet Union.
We have been setting exceptional service standards since the Company’s very foundation. Being proficient, responsible, and scrupulous in every aspect of our profession, we have built reliable business relations with partners from all over the world, expanded the area of business activity to all countries of the former Soviet Union, opened offices in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova, and Uzbekistan.

We are proud of being trusted by small and medium entities, as well as the largest multinational corporations. Inventions with multibillion potential and housewife simple innovations are treated with equally high responsibility. This general approach lies in the basis of our strategy and shapes the Company’s spirit being the driving force of our success.

Inspired by the principle of constant development we keep on moving forward expanding our geography in order to meet and exceed clients’ expectations.

Firm overview

Pakharenko & Partners IP and Law Firm was established in 1994 and has offices in Kyiv and London. As a firm providing full IP service coverage we are keen in developing successful protection and enforcement strategies for our clients, covering the development of IP portfolio, acquisition of IPRs, commercialisation of IPRs, enforcement and management of IPRs including patents (inventions and utility models), designs, trademarks and geographical indications, domain names, copyright and related rights, plant breeders' rights both on the national and international level.

The firm provides assistance to national and foreign clients in securing and enforcing their intellectual property rights in Ukraine and CIS countries.

Company’s lawyers have been involved in anti-counterfeiting and anti-piracy activities since the implementation of the relevant provisions on IPR enforcement in the Ukraine laws.

Our staff also has expertise in pharmaceutical law, competition law, media law, corporate and commercial law, commercial litigation.

We are able to service our clients' needs around the world through our established network of associates. The special relationships developed by our company with many attorney firms in key foreign markets provide ongoing, substantial benefits to our internationally focused clients.

The company’s main practice areas include Intellectual Property Law, Anti-Counterfeiting and Anti-Piracy Operations and Legal Support, Media Law, Advertising Law, Competition Law, Pharmaceutical Law, Corporate Law, Customs Law, Commercial and IP Litigation.

Along with the other practice areas, the company’s plant varieties practice is strengthening. We were one of the first firms in Ukraine that became actively involved in the protection of intellectual property rights to plant varieties.

Our plant variety practice is focused on a full spectrum of consultancy services related to all aspects of the protection of proprietary and non-proprietary rights to plant varieties, particularly plant breeders’ rights, including the preparation and filing of applications for such rights in Ukraine, registration of varieties in the Plant Variety Register following checks for suitability for distribution in Ukraine, post grant administrative procedures, particularly maintenance of registered varieties on the Register and others.

Being at the heart of both domestic and international intellectual property regime developments strengthens the firm’s ability to keep its clients continuously updated regarding any changes affecting their intellectual property rights. The firm is dedicated to the principle of developing an effective IP system which allows businesses from all over the world to reap the rewards of their intellectual property assets.

The company has assisted in the drafting of intellectual property legislation and now continues to act as advisors to a range of government agencies.

Network Memberships: AIPPI, INTA, FICPI, LES, MARQUES, PTMG, ECTA, ACG, IACC, UNION of European Practitioners in Intellectual Property (UNION-IP), CIOPORA, ACACAP, ICC Ukraine, IBA, European Business Association (EBA), American Chamber of Commerce (ACC) in Ukraine, Ukrainian Patent Attorney’s Association (UPAA), Ukrainian Alliance Against Counterfeiting and Piracy (UAACP) which is a member of the GACG Network.

Last updated 2nd October 2019