Law Office Pepeljugoski

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.

Attorney at law/Managing Partner

Public Attorney of the Republic of Macedonia, 1986 – 1990; Judge assistant at the Commercial Court of Macedonia, 1991 – 1993; Legal Expert at the Ministry of Justice of Republic of Macedonia for legislation drafting in the area of industrial and trade law, 1993 – present; Assistant Minister at the Ministry of Development of the Republic of Macedonia in charge of legal matters of economic development and establishing the Macedonian Industrial Property Protection Office, 1993 – 1994; Assistant Director of Industrial Property Protection Office of the Republic of Macedonia, 1994 – 1999; Legal Expert at USAID for implementation of Law on Pledges, 1996 – 2005; Managing Partner and Attorney at law of the Law office Pepeljugoski Skopje, 1999 – present; Member of the Commission for protection of the competition of the Republic of Macedonia, 2005 – 2006; Assistant professor at 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”, 2005; Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Science and Communications in Tetovo, on the subject - Information Technology Law, 2005; Visitting Professor at the American University of EUROPE – FON, 2007 – present; Educator at the Academy of Judges and Public Prosecutors of the Republic of North Macedonia, 2007 – present; Editor at Macedonia Lawyers Association of the editorial for intellectual property in legal magazine „Pravnik“, 2007 – present; Visitting Professor at the University Ss. Cyril and Methodius, Faculty of Economics, 2009 – present; Visiting Professor and expert at the University Ss. Cyril and Methodius, Faculty of Law Justinianus Primus, 2010 – present; Teaching and course development in the following subjects: Patents, Intellectual Property at the course Double Degree Programme in Intellectual Property Law offered by the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University (Iustinianus Primus Law Faculty) and the University of Strasbourg (Centre for International Intellectual Property Studies). Member of various commissions for public defence of Master thesis. Member of the examination board for the degree offered by University of Strasbourg (Centre for International Intellectual Property Studies). Project activities headed and conducted within the University: TEMPUS - REGIONAL JOINT DEGREE MASTER IN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW (144582 –TEMPUS – 2008 – MK – JPCR). Drafting of the Syllabus for main subjects of Master studies, especially for Patents.Teaching Patent Law, Mentoring LLM Thesis and Member of the Defence Commission. TEMPUS Common European project: Copyright and neighbouring rights - Towards EU standards (TEMPUS JEP 2004). Preparing analysis of actual situation in protection of copyright and neighbouring rights and assessment of the legislation. Preparing proposals for amendments of the laws. TEMPUS Common European project: EU Industrial Property Law - Institution buildings (TEMPUS JEP 17029-2002). Organization of training courses and drafting materials for the said courses for the officials employed in the public and state administration. Lead Speaker on the training courses. Assessment of the capacity of the institutions which are in relation to IP protection. Professor of Intellectual Property Law at the Law Faculty – University “Goce Delchev” – Shtip, 2010 – 2011; Legal Advisor at the Macedonian Consumer Protection Organization, 2010 – 2012; Legal Expert at the European Patent Institute (EPI), 2011 – present; Law lecturer at the UNECE, USPTO and Academy for Judges and Public Prosecutors, 2012; Law lecturer at the US Patent and trademark office (Tbilisi, Georgia) - lecture on the topic of valuation of IPRs, 2013; Member and Arbitrator of the Sports Arbitration Committee in the scope of the Macedonian Olympic Committee, 2014 – present; Consultant of Macedonian Government for GIZ, Project - Regional Economic Development (RED), 2014; Legal Advisor of the Ministry of Interior of the Republic of North Macedonia, 2015 – 2017; Expert at the State Office for Industrial Property, 2015 – present; Arbitrator at the Permanent Elected Court - Arbitration at the Economic Chamber of Macedonia, 2016 – present; Chairman of the working group at the Ministry of Culture for amendments to the Law on Copyright and Related Rights, 2017 – present; Arbitrator at the Vienna International Arbitration Committee, 2017 – present; Law lecturer on the conference e-Society.mk organized by Metamorphosis, 2017; Legal Expert at the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of North Macedonia, 2020; National key expert of the State Office for Industrial Property, 2021 – present; Lecturer at the American Chamber of Commerce of the Republic of North Macedonia, 2022; Lecturer to a large number of traders/legal entities on the topic "Key topics and challenges in the implementation of the new Consumer Protection Law" organized by AKADEMIK, 2022; Lecturer within the framework of the project EU for Freedom of Expression: Alignment of national media legislation with EU acquis and media standards (REQUEST N° 2018-10846/LOT 3), 2023.

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Member of the Commission for passing Exam for Industrial Property Representative in Republic of Macedonia in 4 (four) mandates, in Skopje, North Macedonia, 1994 – 2003; Member of Macedonian Bar Association in Skopje, North Macedonia, 1999 – present; Member of American bar association in Skopje, North Macedonia, 1999 – 2011; Member of International trademark association – INTA, New York, USA, 2000 – present; Member of Commission for mediation in the field of the copyright and related right in Skopje, North Macedonia, 2005 – present; Member of the Advisory Group to the Ministry of Culture on Copyright and Related Rights in Skopje, North Macedonia, 2006; Member of Technical Committee for Enterprise Legislation under the Government of Macedonia in Skopje, North Macedonia, 2008; Member of European patent institute, Munich, Germany, 2009 – present; Member of Examination board for the degree offered by University of Strasbourg and University Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Skopje, North Macedonia, 2010 – 2012; Member of the Commission for adopting a legal strategy for intellectual property in Macedonia in Skopje, North Macedonia, 2010 – 2012; Member of Board of the European Patent Institute and the Council of the European Patent Institute, Munich, Germany, 2011 – present; Member of the Standing committee on qualifications and education in Germany, Munich, Germany, 2011 – present; Member of the EPI Board of Directors EPI Council and of the qualification and educational committee in Skopje, North Macedonia, 2011 – present; Member of VIAC Arbitration, Vienna, Austria, 2014 – present; Member of the Presidency of the Permanent Elected Court Arbitration of Macedonia in Skopje, North Macedonia, 2016 – 2019; Member of the Permanent court of Arbitration attached to the Economic chamber of Macedonia in Skopje, North Macedonia, 2016 – present; Member of the Ministry of Justice working group for amendments to the Notary Law in Skopje, North Macedonia, 2017; Member of the European Trademark Association – ECTA, Brussels, Belgium, 2018 – present; Member of the International Group of Experts for Negotiations with the Republic of Greece in Skopje, North Macedonia, 2019; Deputy member of the Commission for taking the Bar Exam at the Ministry of Justice of Macedonia in Skopje, North Macedonia, 2020 – present.

Expert witness in the field of intellectual property law, 2012 – present; European patent attorney, 2009 – present; Doctoral degree in law (PhD) at the Faculty of Law, University Ss. Cyril and Methodius, Skopje on the topic: “Protection of Industrial Property Rights Against Unfair Competition in the Comparative and Macedonian Law” in 2003; Exam for Industrial property representative passed in 1998; Master of Law (LLM) at the Faculty of Law, University Ss. Cyril and Methodius, Skopje on the topic “Monopolisam and its regulations in the world and our country” in 1991; Lawyer with passed bar exam passed in 1987; Bachelor of Law (LLB) at the Faculty of Law, University Ss. Cyril and Methodius, Skopje in 1985.