Maksym specializes in trademark prosecution, including trademark watch, trademark similarity and identity searches, providing initial consultations and strategy development regarding various trademark-related issues, preparing applications and responses to Office Actions, preparing replies to oppositions and provisional refusals, preparing third-party oppositions.

His recent matters include:

• Advising up-and-coming Ukrainian fashion designer on the available options for protecting their brand. As part of the selected strategy, supported successful registration of one of the first position trademarks in Ukraine, paving the way for its potential expansion into the European market.

• Managing an extensive IP-portfolio of a leading global pharmaceutical company and handling all related matters.

• Assisting one of the largest retailers of appliances and electronics on the Polish market in overcoming the provisional refusal, covering multiple classes. The issue revolved around the existence of three prior trademarks that initially seemed confusingly similar.

Education

• National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”, Law, 2023

• Master's student at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Intellectual Property Law.