{"id":784129,"date":"2024-07-25T22:07:04","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T19:07:04","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-07-25T22:18:10","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T19:18:10","slug":"tsentr-mediatsiyi-ta-poserednytstva-pochav-svoyu-diyalnist-na-bazi-ukrnoivi-novi-mozhlyvosti-dlya-vlasnykiv-prav-iv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.eba.com.ua\/en\/tsentr-mediatsiyi-ta-poserednytstva-pochav-svoyu-diyalnist-na-bazi-ukrnoivi-novi-mozhlyvosti-dlya-vlasnykiv-prav-iv\/","title":{"rendered":"UANIPIO launches Mediation Center with new opportunities for IP right holders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ukrainian National Office of Intellectual Property and Innovations (<strong>UANIPIO<\/strong>) has launched the Mediation Center (&#8220;<strong>Center<\/strong>&#8220;) aiming to provide IP right holders with additional instruments for alternative dispute resolution in the field of IP.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Center is a professional <strong>platform for resolving disputes through mediation <\/strong>in the field of IP. It provides organizational and technical support services of the mediation procedure and facilitates the organization of mediation processes in resolving IP disputes. Thus, the UANIPIO creates a platform for mediation where parties and mediators are the participants of the process. The Center provides access to the <strong>Register of Mediators<\/strong>, so that the parties can choose who to involve in the case. The mediators not only possess negotiation skills to resolve disputes, but also have <strong>thorough expertise in IP law<\/strong>, which helps to resolve the issue taking into account all the specifics of a particular industry. The Center <strong>provides an additional tool<\/strong> for IP rights holders to <strong>resolve disputes without litigation<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key points<\/p>\n<p>What is the difference between mediation and litigation?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-573307 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/new.eba.com.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Picture1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"647\" height=\"502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.eba.com.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Picture1.jpg 647w, https:\/\/new.eba.com.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Picture1-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/new.eba.com.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Picture1-373x290.jpg 373w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 647px) 100vw, 647px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mediation within the Center may be initiated at the following stages:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Before applying to court, arbitral tribunal or international commercial arbitration<\/li>\n<li>During the pretrial investigation, court, arbitral or arbitration proceedings<\/li>\n<li>During the enforcement of a court decision, arbitral tribunal decision or international commercial arbitration award<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>When will you benefit from mediation?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Parties will benefit from mediation in the following circumstances:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Parties are from different countries.<\/li>\n<li>There are multiple conflicts between the same parties.<\/li>\n<li>Dispute involves several IP rights (e.g., EU-registered trademarks, nationally registered trademarks, registered or unregistered industrial designs, copyrights, patents).<\/li>\n<li>Parties that were not involved in the original dispute must join the action.<\/li>\n<li>There are obstacles to the enforcement of a court decision.<\/li>\n<li>Confidentiality of the request, materials, discussions and results is important.<\/li>\n<li>There is a need to use a single language during the process if the dispute involves representatives of different jurisdictions. In addition, the mediator may also address each party in their native language.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Parties to the dispute are interested in doing business in different areas or jurisdictions, and the parties&#8217; IP rights already coexist or may coexist.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How does the mediation work and how to initiate it?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-573308 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/new.eba.com.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Picture2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.eba.com.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Picture2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/new.eba.com.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Picture2-300x149.jpg 300w, https:\/\/new.eba.com.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Picture2-768x380.jpg 768w, https:\/\/new.eba.com.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Picture2-650x322.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Recommendations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From a business standpoint, the establishment of the Center can be considered as a <strong>positive <\/strong>move, as the UANIPIO provides support with specialists and organizations helping parties resolve cases through mediation and negotiations. <em>Th<\/em><em>e <\/em>Center <em>will contribute to the <\/em><em><strong>effective resolution of IP cases at the pre-litigation stage <\/strong><\/em>due to the thorough knowledge of experts in the field of IP law<em>, which is more <\/em><em><strong>time and cost efficient.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions regarding the mediation procedure, as well as the peculiarities and benefits of this process, please contact Partner Ruslan Drobyazko and Counsel Myroslava Koval-Lavok.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contacts<\/strong><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"mailto:Ruslan.Drobyazko@bakermckenzie.com\">Ruslan Drobyazko\u200b<\/a> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Partner Baker McKenzie<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"mailto:Myroslava.Koval-Lavok@bakermckenzie.com\">Myroslava Koval-Lavok<\/a><\/div>\n<div>Counsel Baker McKenzie<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ukrainian National Office of Intellectual Property and Innovations (UANIPIO) has launched the Mediation Center (&#8220;Center&#8220;) aiming to provide IP right holders with additional instruments for alternative dispute resolution in the field of IP. \u00a0 The Center is a professional platform for resolving disputes through mediation in the field of IP. It provides organizational and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4489,"featured_media":573306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15576,15575],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-784129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-articles-en","category-news-and-articles-from-companies-en","company-16313"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.eba.com.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.eba.com.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.eba.com.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.eba.com.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.eba.com.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.eba.com.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.eba.com.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.eba.com.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.eba.com.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.eba.com.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}