Patent lawyer and CCLS Alumna Olga Gurgula appeared in the Financial Times on 16th June in the article about the Ukraine medicine IP waiver.
Dr Olga Gurgula (Commercial and Corporate Law LLM, 2012 and Intellectual Property Law PhD, 2019) worked on FCDO Ukraine IP Court Project as part of her PhD studies at CCLS. This work would have come to fruition if not for the outbreak of war; the new court was expected to be established later this year.
Dr Gurgula, together with legal specialists from the CCLS, Professor Ioannis Kokkoris and Professor Noam Shemtov, leads on the establishment of Ukraine’s High Court on Intellectual Property (IP), which forms part of a radical transformation of the country’s legal system. A draft law, crafted by Queen Mary alumna Dr Olga Gurgula and colleagues at the Ukrainian Intellectual Property Institute, is in effect an IP waiver. If passed by the Ukrainian parliament, it would allow the country’s generics manufacturers to produce essential medicines legally, and let the country bypass World Trade Organization prohibitions on producing and importing generics.
See FCDO Ukraine IP Court Project.
Find out more on Queen Mary website.