Ukraine

Firm overview

We are an IP Law Firm with headquarters in Kyiv, Ukraine, with a tight-knit team of professionals, who have more than 18 years of experience. Crane IP specializes in comprehensive intellectual property law services across Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, and other CIS countries.

We have gained many years of experience in the sphere, collected the best practices and approaches to doing business, and founded our own project designed to increase the quality and speed of customer service to the next level.

Crane IP Law Firm is committed to delivering high-quality, tailored IP services, ensuring the protection and advancement of clients' intellectual property rights across multiple jurisdictions.

With a team of professionals boasting over a decade of experience, the firm offers tailored solutions in various IP domains: Trademarks, Patents, Industrial Designs, Copyright, IP Rights Protection (in-court and off-court), Product Compliance.

Firm overview

ADVANCE PARTNERS is a Ukrainian IP firm focusing on enforcement, protection and management of IP rights, including trade marks, patents, industrial designs and copyrights, and also practising competition law, corporate and commercial law, as well as data protection and dispute resolution.

Our team of attorneys provides a whole range of IP services to local and international clients, including multinational corporations, privately owned companies, start-ups, and individuals. We manage IPR portfolios both for our Ukrainian clients worldwide and for international clients in Ukraine.

By combining proficiency with a strong international network, our firm is well placed to handle complex cross-border matters with a high degree of speed and flexibility.

Firm overview

MIKHAILYUK, SOROKOLAT & PARTNERS is a patent, trademark, and design partnership established in 1992 by Mr. Valentin Mikhailyuk. At present, we are one of the largest IP law companies in the countries of the former Soviet Union.
We have been setting exceptional service standards since the Company’s very foundation. Being proficient, responsible, and scrupulous in every aspect of our profession, we have built reliable business relations with partners from all over the world, expanded the area of business activity to all countries of the former Soviet Union, opened offices in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova, and Uzbekistan.

We are proud of being trusted by small and medium entities, as well as the largest multinational corporations. Inventions with multibillion potential and housewife simple innovations are treated with equally high responsibility. This general approach lies in the basis of our strategy and shapes the Company’s spirit being the driving force of our success.

Inspired by the principle of constant development we keep on moving forward expanding our geography in order to meet and exceed clients’ expectations.

Firm overview

CWB emerged as an unrivalled super-regional firm in 2023 following the merger of leading regional IP specialists Cedar White Bradley, PETOŠEVIĆ Group and Hahn & Hahn with 29 offices, 150 practitioners, and 250 employees, CWB now services and manages the portfolios of some of the world's leading IP owners across 100+ jurisdictions in Africa, Central Asia, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East.

Through an unrivalled footprint of offices and affiliated offices, we offer centrally managed IP solutions and dedicated client-specific, cross-jurisdiction teams. We blend the best advanced IP practices and the local know-how to deliver consistent quality service across a large geographical area, despite all the challenges posed by the countries we operate in.

CWB provides a full spectrum of IP services related to virtually all IP rights, as well as brand management and brand enforcement services. Our teams protect thousands of IP rights for market leading clients across a large section of industries. We also have a Media & Entertainment team, which provides highly specialized support to clients navigating local regulatory landscapes in fields such as film production, content streaming, crypto, advertising, data protection, social media, software licensing and music usage.

CWB is thinking beyond the technology available today to transform the IP services industry. We are implementing the most innovative technologies and leveraging automation and AI to enhance the client and employee experience and to achieve industry-leading efficiencies.

CWB Office Locations

Africa: Egypt, South Africa (Pretoria and Western Cape), Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Central Asia: Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan
Central & Eastern Europe: Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Kosovo (UNSCR 1244), Luxembourg, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Ukraine
Middle East: Bahrain, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Qatar, United Arab Emirates (Abu Dhabi and Dubai)

IP Practice Specialisms

CWB provides a full spectrum of intellectual property services related to trademarks, patents, utility models, industrial designs, copyright; domain names, trade secrets and other IP rights, as well as brand management and brand enforcement services. CWB teams file, prosecute, register, and enforce thousands of IP rights for market leading and globally renowned clients across a large section of industries, including consumer electronics, automotive, tobacco, pharmaceuticals, confectionery, FMCG, property development, luxury brands, fashion and cosmetics.