Mariya Ortynska

Managing Partner, Patent and Trademark Attorney of Ukraine, Attorney

Sphere of competence

Consultations on strategic issues of protection of intellectual property rights in Ukraine and abroad. Judicial protection of intellectual property rights, fight against counterfeit.

Membership:

• Deputy Head of the Committee on Intellectual Property Law of the Ukrainian Bar Association (UBA)
• member of the Association of Lawyers in Ukraine (ALU)
• member of the Anti-Counterfeit Committee of the International Trademark Association (INTA)
• member of the American Bar Association (ABA)
• member of the American Bar Association on Intellectual Property (AIPLA)
• member of the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property Rights (AIPPI)
• member of the Pharmaceutical Trade Marks Group (PTMG)

Speeches:

• Course on “Intellectual property law in the field of advertising”, topic “Comparative and unfair advertising: response options. Plagiarism in advertising”, Legal High School (2020)
• Course on “Commercial turnover of IP objects”, topic “Licensing agreements on industrial property”, Legal High School (2019)
• Moderator of an expert discussion at Legal High School on “Piracy in Ukraine: How to protect intellectual property?” (2019)
• Speaker at the V International Forum “Transfer Pricing and Tax Planning – 2019” (2019)
• Lecture on “Trademark registration”, China Business Community (2019)
• Lecture on “International harmonization of intellectual property rights”, Institute of International Relations, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (2019)
• AAU round table moderator on “Reimbursement of legal expenses in cases regarding IP objects” (2019)
• Meeting of the AAU Committee on Intellectual Property, topic “How will the digital environment change the intellectual property law?” (2018)
• International Grand Forum BIT, topic “Intellectual property in the age of artificial intelligence” (2018)
• Seminar of NAAU and the Council of Advocates of Kyiv on the development of lawyers’ qualification, topic “Patenting peculiarities in Ukraine and abroad” (2018)
• V School on Antimonopoly Law, topic “FRAND / RAND as a way to balance the freedom of business and monopoly” (2017)
• Seminar on “Legal Aspects in IT: Protection of Intellectual Property Rights” (2017)
• Seminar on “How to protect the rights for your invention and find the funds to start your own business?” (2017)
• Summer School on Intellectual Property, topic: “Licensing and transfer of rights” (2017)
• Seminar of the International Association for the Protection of Industrial Property (AIPPI), topic “The latest news of the Ukrainian intellectual property market – the most outstanding cases and what to expect in 2017” (2017)
• II All-Ukrainian Agrarian Forum of the AAU, topic “Issues of protection of intellectual property rights of agro producers, peculiarities existing in this area and the prospect of development of this direction in connection with the signing of the EU Association Agreement” (2016)
• Legal TMT Forum, topic “Blocking access to content, infringing copyright, or law fiction in Ukraine is not far off” (2016)
• Course on IT law at the Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU), topic “Patenting” a non-patentable “or how to protect the rights to IT solutions?” (2016)
• Seminar of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), topic “Is it enough to register a trademark in order to protect the business?” (2016)
• Meeting of the Committee of the Ukrainian Bar Association (UBA) on pharmaceutical law, topic “Possibilities of patenting biotechnical solutions, advantages and disadvantages of patent protection, examples of patents issued in Ukraine, the United States and the European Union” (2016)

Publications:

• Internet resource LIGA:ZAKON.Business, “How to independently patent your invention“
• Internet resource LIGA.Blogs, “Art remake for corporate purposes”
• Harper’s Bazaar Ukraine, “Intellectual Fashion: 10 rules for designers to protecting copyright”
• Internet resource LIGA.Blogs, “Standard business mistakes and IP attorney advice”
• Internet resource Novoe Vremia.Business, “How will Brexit affect the intellectual property of Ukrainian business”
• Internet resource Mind.ua, “Business and IT specialists: how to protect copyright for software development”
• Internet resource Economichna Pravda, “Intellectual” absurd. What can a new method of fighting counterfeit turn into?”
• Internet resource LIGA.Tech, “How can Ukrainians sell their inventions? Range of services”
• Internet resource Novoe Vremia.Business, “Security, here’s cancellation. Does Ukraine need a customs IP register?”
• Internet resource YURLIGA, “Intellectual property protection: modern challenges”
• “Who should register TM, patent an invention or industrial design: uncomfortable questions”
• Newspaper Novoe Vremia, “Racing for technology: survival rules”
• Law and Business Newspaper, “How to protect intellectual property in the criminal process?“
• Law and Business Newspaper, “Protection of intellectual property rights: tendencies of 2017“
• Internet resource Delo.ua, “How to make money on the souvenirs of the song contest “Eurovision-2017 “and not receive a fine“
• Law and Business Newspaper, “Punishment for Counterfeit“
• Yuridicheskaya Gazeta Newspaper, “Old-school legislation against the newest methods of piracy and counterfeiting“
• Lawyer & Law Magazine, interview with Mariya Ortynska
• Internet resource YURLIGA, “Service work: how not to lose investment in new technologies and not to meet with a former employee in court“
• Juridical Practice Newspaper, “The withdrawal of the UK from the EU may endanger the future of the unitary patent and the Unitary Patent Court“
• Internet resource ain.ua, “Creating an empire of Internet trolls: you can not sign a veto“
• Internet resource ain.ua, “Battle for content. What the VKontakte story on Google Play teaches”
• Internet resource YURLIGA, “Protection of industrial designs: 10 innovations to the government project“