Updated on 25 April 2022
The Ukrainian Parliament has passed the bill “On protection of interests of persons in the intellectual property field during state of war” (No. 7228 of 30 March 2022). The bill has now been approved and the Law No. 2174-IX of 1 April 2022 came into force on 13 April 2022.
According to the bill:
– IP deadlines shall be suspended, and
– authorized persons shall have the right to submit documents (applications, requests, oppositions, responses, etc.) within 90 days from the date of repeal of the martial law, without payment of official fees for reinstatement of the respective missed deadlines.
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Russia continues to adopt countermeasures against the sanctions imposed on Russia. One of the most recent countermeasures concerning intellectual property rights is the Decree-Law of March 2022 which legalized parallel import of certain goods into Russia.
Read an article in the latest issue of the World Intellectual Property Review (issue 1/2022) where our European Patent Attorney Matti Brax, who has been in the business since 1995, shares his expertise about patenting quantum computing.
Ukraine to suspend IP deadlines after a new bill is approved. Read our piece of news.
Kindly note that our Helsinki head office will be closed for the Easter weekend from Friday 15 April to Monday 18 April and will be fully operational again on Tuesday 19 April.
