Oleg Klymchuk
Counsel
Oleg Klymchuk is a well-rounded intellectual property attorney with a particular focus on IT services outsourcing projects, technology, media and communications (TMC).
Oleg regularly advises on transactions involving brands, technology, data and content, particularly in the context of Ukraine-related cross-border M&A’s, join ventures, financing, licensing and other TMC related commercial and IP agreements.
Oleg routinely advises on IP infringement issues helping clients to cease infringements and manage the risks of potential IP infringement. Oleg’s experience and practice also include enforcement of brands and designs against imitation and unfair exploitation. He has also handled IP licensing contentious matters and open source licensing disputes.
Mr Klymchuk advises Sayenko Kharenko clients on the full range of legal issues related to advertising & marketing, data privacy and related issues. In addition, Oleg has substantial experience in entertainment related matters involving copyright, trademarks and media law.
Prior to joining Sayenko Kharenko in 2014, Oleg worked for one of the leading Ukrainian law firms and in the Kyiv office of an international law firm.
Recognitions
- Recommended in intellectual property and recognized among next generation lawyers for Intellectual property by The Legal 500, 2020
- Recognized among notable practitioners in IT by Ukrainian Law Firms 2020
- Named among notable practitioners in Intellectual Property by Ukrainian Law Firms 2019
- Recognized among leading lawyers in Privacy and Data Security by Best Lawyers International 2022
- Recommended in IP by WTR Global Leaders 2021
Admissions
- Kyiv Region Bar Association (admitted since 2009)
Education
- LL.M. from Kyiv Intellectual Property Institute of National University “Odesa Academy of Law”
Professional membership and involvement
- International Trademark Association
- The International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI)
- American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine
- European Business Association
- Ukrainian Bar Association
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Ukraine: Privacy implications of the E-Communications Law
Ukraine's comparative advertising laws and its new rules on advertising medical devices
Technological impulse (In Russian)
New rules for comparative advertising in Ukraine: what’s new for advertisers and other market players?
How entrepreneur can protect intellectual property rights (In Russian)
The Pharma Legal Handbook Ukraine
Five minutes before GDPR comes into force (in Ukrainian)
The importance of privacy notice and its accordance with the GDPR (in Russian)
Grace of soft-integration: disputes among parties of the contract on “complex” software implementation (in Russian)
High "intellectual" court is on the home stretch now (commentary) (in Ukrainian)
Services export and electronic workflow: how to execute a foreign economic agreement in electronic format (in Russian)
"Intellectual" riddles (commentary, in Ukrainian)