On April 19, 2012 the President of Ukraine signed the new
Customs Code of Ukraine, which shall soon enter into force.
The Code introduces a number of important changes that must take
into account by market participants when importing goods with the
use of various intellectual property objects.
It is important to note that the major changes were mainly made
in the Customs Register of Intellectual Property Rights
(hereinafter the Customs Register).
As we know, the Customs Register is kept by the Customs Service
to ensure that a person who has the rights to an object of
intellectual property, if there is reason to believe that during
the movement of goods across the customs cordon of Ukraine its
rights to the object may be violated, has an opportunity to apply
to the Customs Service for entering the said object into the
registry. After that, the customs authorities shall take measures
to prevent the movement of counterfeit goods across the customs
cordon of Ukraine
