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Consultations on the Adjudication of Intellectual Property for Ukraine’s IP Benchbook Committee

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CLDP, in cooperation with the Higher Commercial Court of Ukraine (HCC), and the U.S. Federal Judicial Center (FJC) held a week long Consultative Visit on Utilization of Judicial IP Benchbook. The Visit took place in Minneapolis, Minnesota and Washington DC on October 13 - 20, 2017 and was part of the efforts to assist Ukraine to obtain a more effective adjudication of Intellectual Property (IP) cases by the Ukrainian judiciary through the development of the IP Benchbook. The Consultations brouhgt together the drafting committee (also referred to as the Benchbook Development Working Group) composed of 6 judges from the Higher Commercial Court and other commercial courts of Ukraine who participated the Benchbook writing in 2015/2016. the visit was a follow-up event to the five day long Workshop on Drafting of the Intellectual Property Benchbook in Lviv, Ukraine, held by CLDP n June 2015. The delegation consulted with judges and magistrates on the utilization of benchbooks generally, as well as the issues involved in the adjudication of IP cases in particular and will include the Courthouse tour in St. Paul, tour of USPTO & Alexandria Courthouse, a visit to the Federal Judicial Center.

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