We continue analyzing changes in the patent legislation of Ukraine

Amendments were introduced into the Law of Ukraine “On Protection of Rights to Inventions and Utility Models”. This could be considered an implementation of concept known in international practice as “Bolar Exemption”.

Read the commentary of Anastasia Kazankina, lawyer of Doubinsky & Osharova for The Ukrainian Lawyer Magazine #1-2, 2021 on whether the Bolar Exemption in the current version legally allows generic companies to apply for registration before the expiration of the patent, on different interpretations of its wording and other contradictions.

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