People

Taras Kulbaba

Belgium OfficeUkraine Office
  • Associate
taras.kulbaba@petosevic.com

Taras’s duties include prosecution and enforcement of trademarks and industrial designs.

Prior to joining the firm in 2009, Taras worked for three years with a firm in Kiev where his practice focused on registration of trademarks and drafting license and franchise agreements, as well as enforcement of intellectual property rights.

Admission
  • Not required in Ukraine in order to be able to represent clients in court
Languages
Native Ukrainian, fluent Russian and English, basic Arabic
Education
  • Queen Mary University of London, School of Law, LLM in Intellectual Property with Distinction, 2009
  • Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University, Institute of International Relations, LLM in International Private Law (Conflict of Laws), 2007
  • Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University, Institute of International Relations, LLB in International Law, 2005
Presentations
  • "Protecting IP in Transnistria", PETOŠEVIĆ Webinar on Special-Status Territories: Kosovo, Transnistria, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, BrightTALK, December 5, 2012
Publications
  • Contributor for Belarus to the online “Country Survey”. Country Index. (March, 2013)

  • Contributor for Armenia to the “Trademark Licensing Questionnaire”. Country Index. (November, 2011)

  • “Albania”. Trademark Practice & Forms. Oxford University Press, Inc. (June, 2011)

  • “Ukraine case summaries”. The Trademark Reporter Vol. 101 No.3. International Trademark Association. (May-June, 2011)

  • “Armenia”. Trademark Practice & Forms. Oxford University Press, Inc. (March, 2011)

Committees
  • International Trademark Association Committee Member, Young Practitioners Committee, 2012 – 2013 Term
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