On July 30-31, 2018, in Odesa, Ukraine, CLDP, in cooperation with the U.S. judiciary and the Federal Judiciary Center, as well as with the High Council of Justice and the Supreme Court of Ukraine designed and implemented the Workshop on the Adjudication of Intellectual Property Disputes. The workshop gathered Ukrainian judges, members of the High Council of Justice, as well as representatives of the U.S. judiciary and legal community.

The U.S. judges helped Ukrainian participants engage in the productive discussion of priority issues and challenges in the adjudication of IP disputes and identify potential solutions to a number of specific practical legal issues of adjudication of IP commercial disputes in Ukraine, identified together with CLDP in the course of the preparation for the workshop.

The workshop contributed to more effective and efficient adjudication of IP commercial disputes in Ukraine, which is among the key factors of continued reforms of the Ukrainian judiciary system.