Brands Update. October 2015

This month we look at the practice of administrative courts as to  which intellectual property the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine can refuse to record with the Customs Registry of Intellectual Property Objects and new court practice on copyright protection.

PROTECTION ON THE BORDER. Not all utility models are utile for Customs Registry

The administrative court declared lawful the refusal by the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine to record four utility model patents with the Customs Registry of Intellectual Property Objects (the Registry) due to the inability to identify them in the course of customs clearance. The said decision establishes the practice enabling to record only the utility models registered as products (goods), rather than processes (methods) with the Registry. Recording of utility models with the Registry will now require thorough preparation.