schedule

12
June, 2025
Day 1

9:00 - 09:30  Registration of participants

Registration and welcome coffee

09:30 - 11:00  Grand opening

Moderator – Shablin Eduard, President of the Eurasian Patent Attorneys Assembly, Partner at Patentica

Welcome remarks

  • Grigory Ivliev, President of the Eurasian Patent Office (online)

  • Armen Azizyan, Advisor to the President of the Eurasian Patent Office

  • Kristine Ambaryan, Head of the Intellectual Property Office of the Republic of Armenia

  • Yuri Zubov, Head of the Federal Service for Intellectual Property (Rospatent) (online)

  • Sergey Belyaev, Chairman of the Council of the Eurasian Patent Attorneys Assembly, Managing partner at Belyaevs and Partners

  • Eduard Nagapetyan, Member of the Council of the Eurasian Patent Attorneys Assembly, Director at Nahapet and Co IP Law Firm

  • Representative of WIPO

  • Representative of the Patent Attorneys Association of Republic of Armenia

  • Representatives of the Patent Offices of the member states of the Eurasian Patent Convention (to be confirmed)

11:00 - 11:30  Coffee break

Coffee and networking

11:30 - 13:30  Section No. 1. Panel discussion "Procedural aspects of trademark registration in EAPC National offices and beyond"

Moderator - Natalia Rybina, member of the Council of the of the Eurasian Patent Attorneys Assembly, Patent attorney of the Russian Federation and Eurasian patent attorney

The Panelists

  • Aleksey Lyadzhin, member of the Council of the Eurasian Patent Attorneys Assembly, Patent attorney of the Republic of Kazakhstan and Eurasian patent attorney, Bureau Plis
  • Shalva Gvaramadze, Patent attorney of the Republic of Georgia, PhD in Technology, Director at Gvaramadze Patent Bureau
  • Svetlana Butenko, Leading Researcher, Scientific and Educational Center "ISIP" of the Law Institute of the National Research Tomsk State University, PhD in Law, Patent Attorney of the Russian Federation, Intellectual Property Agency "Butenko and Partners"
  • Natalya Anokhina, Patent Attorney of the Republic of Latvia, Intellectual Property Agency TRIA ROBIT
  • Eduard Nagapetyan, Member of the Council of the Eurasian Patent Attorneys Assembly, Director at Nahapet and Co IP Law Firm

13:30 - 14:30  Lunch

Lunch and networking

14:30 - 16:00   Section No. 2. "Patenting of inventions in Eurasia. From Pharmaceuticals to Artificial Intelligence"

Moderator – Sergey Belyaev, Chairman of the Council of the Eurasian Patent Attorneys Assembly, Patent Attorney of the Republic of Belarus and Eurasian Patent Attorney, Managing Partner at Belyaevs and Partners

  • Olga Alekseeva, Head of the Quality Monitoring Center of the Federal Institute of Industrial Property, PhD in Law, "Sufficiency of disclosure requirement for computer-related inventions under the Russian patent law"
  • Valentin Panko, Chief expert of the section of mechanics, physics and electrical engineering in the Department of expertise of the Eurasian Patent Office (EAPO), "EAPO approaches to patentability assessment of AI-related inventions” (to be confirmed)
  • Artem Yezhov, Chief expert of the section of chemistry and medicine in the Department of expertise of the Eurasian Patent Office (EAPO) (the topic is to be confirmed)
  • Ilyana Lipatova, Innotech Group, Patent attorney of the Russian Federation and Eurasian patent attorney, “Software as an object of protection, accounting and defense”
  • Anton Khomyakov, Patent attorney of the Russian Federation and Eurasian patent attorney, PhD in Technology, Senior Partner at "Khusainov, Khomyakov and Partners", "Effective strategies for safeguarding digital assets"

16:00 - 16:30  Coffee break

Coffee and networking

16:30 - 18:00   Section No. 3 “Liability of Internet platforms for violation of IP rights”

Moderator – Daria Dombrovskaia-Belyaeva, member of the Audit commission of the Eurasian Patent Attorneys Assembly, Patent attorney of the Republic of Belarus and Eurasian patent attorney, Partner at Belyaevs and Partners

  • Artur Varderesyan, Managing partner at Menk Consulting, Patent attorney of the Republic of Armenia, "Liability of Internet platforms for violation of intellectual property rights: challenges and prospects for regulation in Armenia" (to be confirmed)

  • Dmitry Rusakov, Head of the brand protection group at Gorodissky and Partners (the topic is to be confirmed)
  • Alexandr Gilvej, lawyer at Patentica, “Practical strategies for combatting IP infringement on digital marketplaces”
  • Mukhammadali Makhmudov, Managing partner at Legalmax Central Asia, Attorney-at-law, Patent attorney, Chairman of the Board of the Patent attorneys association of Uzbekistan (Republic of Uzbekistan) (the topic is to be confirmed)
  • Tamar Gelashvili, research associate at Boehmert & Boehmert, “Liability of internet platforms under EU law: current trends and regulatory challenges”

18:00 -18:15   Summing up the first day of the Сonference

19:00 - 21:00   Cultural evening in honor of the opening of the Conference

reception from the conference partner, to be confirmed
13
June, 2025
Day 2

08:30 - 09:00 Registration of participants

Registration and welcome coffee

09:00 - 11:30 Section No. 4.
Section of LES Russia "Current challenges in intellectual property: emerging practices in compulsory licensing and exploring new frontiers in the era of AI"

Panel discussion "Compulsory licensing in the Eurasian region: legal aspects, international experience and perspectives of practical implementation"

Moderator - Evgeny Aleksandrov, President of LES Russia, Senior partner at Gorodissky and Partners

The Panelists
  • Svetlana Koroleva, Director at Lexpatent, Patent Attorney of the Republic of Belarus and Eurasian Patent attorney
  • Viktor Stankovsky, Partner, Director of the branch of Gorodissky and Partners in St. Petersburg, Patent Attorney of the Russian Federation and Eurasian patent attorney
  • Yury Bolotov, Partner at Bolotov and Partners, Patent Attorney of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Presentation section
  • Aida Dolotbaeva, Senior Legal Officer, Patents and Treaties Law Section, Patent and Technology Law Division, World Intellectual Property Organization, “Compulsory Licensing: International Landscape.”
  • Marina Arzrumtsyan, senior lawyer at Melling, Voitishkin and Partners (Russian Federation), “AI and IP: short acronyms, big problems”

11:30 - 12:00    Coffee break

Coffee and networking

12:00 - 13:30   Section No 5. Section of Russian National group of AIPPI. Panel section "Unfair competition in the Eurasian countries"

Moderator - Dmitry Markanov, President of Russian National group of AIPPI, Managing partner at PATENTUS

The Panelists
  • Alexey Zalesov, member of the Council of the Eurasian Patent Attorneys Assembly, PhD in Law, Patent attorney of the Russian Federation and Eurasian patent attorney, Managing partner at A. Zalesov and Partners
Further panelists are to be confirmed

13:30 - 14:30  Lunch

Lunch and networking

14:30 - 14:45   Signing of a Сooperation agreement

Signing of a Сooperation agreement between the EPAA, LES Russia, the Russian national group of AIPPI and the Chamber of Patent Attorneys

14:45 - 16:15   Section No. 6 "Advantages of protecting industrial design objects as an industrial design compared to copyright"

Moderator - Maria Makhlina, member of the Audit Commission of the Eurasian Patent Attorneys Assembly, Patent attorney of the Russian Federation and Eurasian patent attorney, Partner at A. Zalesov and Partners

  • Asemgul Abenova, Head of the Department of industrial designs of the Eurasian Patent Office “Development of the Eurasian system of industrial designs protection” (online)
  • Tatiana Vashuk, Head of IP protection department at Lexpatent, “Challenging a Eurasian industrial design patent grant: a case study from the Board of Appeals”
  • Avetis Peryan, Head of the Department of invention and industrial design expertise of the Intellectual Property Office of the Republic of Armenia, “Industrial design protection in the Republic of Armenia”
  • Maxim Ikonnikov, Patent attorney of the Russian Federation and Eurasian patent attorney, Patentica, “Peculiarities and comparison of legal regimes for protection of designs”

16:15 - 16:35   Coffee break

Coffee and networking

16:35 - 18:00   Section No. 7 “International development of patent law and interaction of international IP organizations. Possibilities and Prospects"

Moderator – Aleksey Vakhnin, President of the Chamber of Patent Attorneys, member of the Council of the Eurasian Patent Attorneys Assembly, Managing partner at "Vakhnina and Partners"

  • Aida Dolotbaeva, Senior Legal Officer, Patents and Treaties Law Section, Patent and Technology Law Division, World Intellectual Property Organization, “Recent Discussions at the WIPO Standing Committee on the Law of Patents”

  • Elena Utkina, Patent attorney of the Russian Federation and Eurasian patent attorney, Head of the Patent Department at "Vakhnina and Partners", "History of development and the present current state of the PPH RPH Accelerated Prosecution Program"
  • Olga Maryukhina, member of the International relations committee of the Eurasian Patent Attorneys Assembly, Patent attorney of the Russian Federation and Eurasian patent attorney, “Key areas of international collaboration in intellectual property across Europe”
  • Anton Khomyakov, Patent attorney of the Russian Federation and Eurasian patent attorney, PhD in Technology, Senior partner at “Khusainov, Khomyakov and Partners” (the topic is to be confirmed)

18:00 -18:20 Closing remarks

19:30 - 22:30 Gala Dinner

on behalf of the Eurasian Patent Attorneys Assembly
14
June, 2025
Day 3   (to be confirmed)

10:00-18:00  Excursion

to Garni Temple and Geghard Monastery