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Mr Valentin Pepeljugoski

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Work Department

Arbitration; Bad Debt collection; Bankruptcy; Civil law litigation; Claim work; Consulting work; Consumer claims; Contractual work; Competition law; Corporate governance and disclosures; Criminal investigation; Criminal law litigation; Data protection; Employment and labor law; Finance and Treasury matters; Health & Safety; Immigration laws, Industrial compliance, Intellectual property, Law – enforcement authority representation; Merger, acquisition and divestiture; Product quality litigation; Real estate; Sanctions regime; Tax law; Waste packaging and environmental.

Position

Attorney at law/Managing Partner

Career

• Attorney at Law, since 1999;
• Assistant Director of the Industrial Property Protection Office of the Republic of Macedonia, since 1994 to 1999;
• Assistant Minister of Development of the Republic of Macedonia, since 1993 to 1994;
• Judge assistant in the Commercial Court of Macedonia, since 1991 to 1993;
• Counselor at the Public Attorney of the Republic of Macedonia, since 1986 to 1990.

Languages

English, Serbian, Croatian and Bulgarian

Memberships

• Member of the Commission for passing Exam for Industrial Property Representative in Republic of Macedonia in 4 (four) mandates in the period 1994-2003;
• Member of the Macedonian Bar Association since 1999 – present;
• Member of the American Bar Association since 1999 – 2011;
• Member of the INTA since 2000 – present;
• Member of the Commission for mediation in the field of copyright and neighboring rights on Macedonian Government from October 2005;
• Member of the Commission for Competition in the period February 2005 – December 2006;
• Educator in The Macedonian Academy of Judges and Public Prosecutors from May 2007 in the subject Civil Law (Law on Obligations and Intellectual Property Law);
• Member of the Technical Committee for Enterprise Legislation under the Government of the Republic of Macedonia in 2008;
• Member of the examination board for the degrees offered by the University of Strasbourg (Center for International Studies on Intellectual Property) and the University of St. Cyril and Methodius Skopje Faculty of Law Iustinian Primus Skopje since 2010 to 2012;
• 2010 – 2012 Member of the Commission for the Adoption of a Legal Strategy for Intellectual Property in the Republic of Macedonia within the State Industrial Property Office
• Legal advisor to the Macedonian Consumer Protection Organization since 2010 to 2012;
• Member of the Board of the European Patent Institute and the Council of the European Patent Institute, Member of the Permanent Commission for Qualification and Training in Germany (Munich) since 2011 – present;
• Member of the Board and Council of the EPI and Member of the Standing Commission on Qualifications and Training for the adoption of proposals, decisions and approval of training documents since 2011 – present;
• Lawyer and founder of the Law office Pepeljugoski since 2013 – present;
• Member of the Sports Arbitration Committee as an arbitrator within the Macedonian Olympic Committee since 2014 – present;
• Legal advisor to the Ministry of the Internal Affairs since 2015 – 2017;
• Member of the Presidency of the Permanent Elected Court – Arbitration at the Chamber of Commerce of Macedonia since 2016 – 2019;
• Arbitrator at the Permanent Elected Court of Arbitration at the Chamber of Commerce of Macedonia since 2016 – present;
• Chairman of the working group at the Ministry of Culture for amendments to the Copyright and Related Rights Act in 2017;
• Member of the working group of the Ministry of Justice for amendments to the Notary Act in 2017;
• Arbitrator at the Vienna International Arbitration Court since 2017 – present;
• Member of the European Community Trademark Association – ECTA since 2018 – present;
• Member of the International Expert Group for Negotiations with the Republic of Greece in 2019;
• Deputy member of the Bar Examination Commission of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of North Macedonia in 2020.

Education

• Faculty of Law graduated at the University “Ss. Cyril and Methodius” – Skopje in 1985;
• Judicial and attorney exam passed in 1987;
• Master of Law in 1991 in the Faculty of Law in Skopje, on the topic “Monopolisam and its regulations in the world and our country”.
• Exam for Industrial Property Representative passed in 1998;
• PhD of Law in 2003 in the Faculty of Law in Skopje, Macedonia, on the topic: “Protection of Industrial Property Rights Against Unfair Competition in the Comparative and Macedonian Law;
• In March 2005 is elected as Assistant professor in The Faculty of social studies – Skopje, where, up to now, teaches the following subjects: “Harmonization of Laws in EU”, “Civil Law”, “Procedures before Institutions of EU”, “Law on Industrial Property and Copyright”, “Judicial and Arbitration Procedure”, “Intellectual Property”;
• In may 2005 is elected on the Faculty of Science and Communications in Tetovo, on the subject – Information Technology Law;
• From October 2007 as a high professional in the field of intellectual property, on invitation of the Law Faculty “Iustinianus Primus” Skopje has classes in the subject – Law on Intellectual Property;
• In October 2009 on the Faculty of Economics – University “St. Kiril and Metodij” – Skopje is elected on the post graduated studies as professor of Law and Legislative of EU”;
• In the period October 2010 – October 2011 is elected as a professor of Intellectual Property Law in the Law Faculty – University “Goce Delchev” – Shtip;
• From October 2009 is professor in the framework of TEMPUS Project: REGIONAL JOINT DEGREE MASTER IN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW (144582 – TEMPUS – 2008 – MK – JPCR);
• European Patent Attorney is from 2009;
• Certified Intellectual Property Expert from 2018.