about the awareness-raising event “I Buy Real! I Don’t Buy Fakes” within educational campaign “Anti-Counterfeiting and Anti-Piracy Days in Ukraine”

On June 23, 2014 the Ukraine Alliance Against Counterfeiting and Piracy in cooperation with the State Intellectual Property Service will hold the roundtable “Main areas of the activity of the Ukrainian government authorities for protection of intellectual property rights” which will take place at the Ukrainian National News Agency “Ukrinform” (8/16 Bohdana Khmelnytskoho Str., Kyiv, Ukraine) from 10:00 to 12:00. The event will be attended by the representatives of the bodies of state power (law-enforcement authorities, supervisory agencies, judges, local authorities), representatives of the expert institutions and right holders. The social event titled “I Buy Real! I Don’t Buy Fakes” is the part of the educational campaign “Anti-Counterfeiting and Anti-Piracy Days in Ukraine” launched in Ukraine in 2012 by the UAACP in cooperation with the State IP Service, The State Customs Service of Ukraine, The Ministry of the Internal Affairs of Ukraine and the Ukrainian National Committee of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC Ukraine).

Program of the event:

10:00 – 10:20
• Registration of the media representatives
• Exhibition of the samples of counterfeit products (footwear, clothes, accessories, video games, watches, perfumery, earphones etc.).
• Coffee-Break

10:20 – 10:35
Greeting address by the organizers of the event: Mykola Kovinya, the Chairman of State IP Service; Volodymyr Shchelkunov, the President of the Ukrainian National Committee of the International Chamber of Commerce; John Anderson, the Chairman of the Global Anti-Counterfeiting Network; and Antonina Pakharenko-Anderson, the President of the Ukraine Alliance Against Counterfeiting and Piracy.

10:35 – 10:45
“Threats posed by the counterfeit and pirated products to the society” – Antonina Pakharenko-Anderson, President of the Ukraine Alliance Against Counterfeiting and Piracy.

10:45 – 10:55
“The role of the State IP Service of Ukraine in implementation of the state policy in the field of intellectual property” – Mykola Kovinya, the Chairman of the State IP Service of Ukraine.

10:55 – 11:05
“The role of the customs authorities in combating infringements of intellectual property by preventing importation of counterfeit goods into the territory of Ukraine” – Oleksiy Hashchytsky, the representative of the Department of Customs Issues of the Ministry of Revenues and Duties of Ukraine.

11:05 – 11:15
“The role of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs of Ukraine in combating infringements of intellectual property rights, in particular by stopping the manufacture and the sale of counterfeit products”  – Andriy Chyharskykh, the Head of the Department of IPR Protection of the Department of the State Service for Combating Economic Crimes under the Ministry of the Internal Affairs of Ukraine.

11:15 – 11:25
“Specialization of judges as a guarantee of the effective enforcement of intellectual property rights” – Igor Benedysyuk, Judge, the Secretary of the 4th Court Chamber of the Supreme Economic Court of Ukraine.

11:25 – 11:35
“The task is to prevent counterfeits from entering into the Ukrainian market” – Yevhen Rogozyansky, the lawyer of Pakharenko & Partners IP and Law Firm

11:35 –12:00
Q&A Session. Closing Remarks.