Ganna Prokhorova

Ganna Prokhorova is an attorney-at-law, mediator, and arbitrator focused on Intellectual Property, and particularly on trademarks, copyright and designs, unfair competition, and art law.

Since 2005 she has been advising well-known domestic and international companies for protection of intangible assets through a combination of monitoring and filing strategies, negotiating and drafting IP assignments, licensing and franchising agreements, as well as judicial and out-of-court remedies against infringements and dilution. She is also regularly engaged in combating counterfeits and protecting plant varieties in Ukraine.

Ganna is passionate about IP. Her emphatic, dynamic and flexible approach to handling matters, together with the ability to manage and foresee different issues in advance, and the solid network of relations with IP professionals worldwide, are the values appreciated by clients.

Ganna has a profound experience in IP court cases and domain name disputes representing famous international brand owners. She is a WIPO Domain Name Panelist under the UDRP and UA-DRP (Ukrainian variation of UDRP), both at WIPO (Geneva, Switzerland), UDRP Panelist at the Czech Arbitration Court (CAC) and URS Examiner at MFSD (Milan, Italy). Ganna is an arbitrator at the Court of Arbitration for Art (CAfA) (the Hague, the Netherlands).

In 2023 Ganna Prokhorova was elected as the Chair of the INTA Copyright Committee for the 2024-2025 term, making her the first Ukrainian professional to ever lead an INTA committee.

• International Trademark Association (INTA), Chair of the Copyright Committee (2024-2025), Chair of International and Legislative Subcommittee of the Copyright Committee (2022-2023)

• MARQUES (member of the Programming Team (2023-2024)

• European Trademark Association (ECTA), member of the Anti-Counterfeiting Committee (2019-2024)

• Pharmaceutical Trademark Group (PTMG), member since 2016

• Ukrainian National Bar Association (UNBA), member of the IP Committee Board since 2019

• Ukrainian Bar Association (UBA), member since 2006

• National Association of Patent Attorneys (NAPA), member since 2021

• Chambers and Partners: Trade Marks 2023. Ukraine

https://mamunya-ip.com/uk/posts/trade-marks-2023-ukraine

• Chambers and Partners: Patent Litigation 2023 https://mamunya-ip.com/uk/posts/patent-litigation-2023

• The Global IP Matrix: Ukraine's Copyright Landscape for Protection of IT Products

https://mamunya-ip.com/posts/ukraines-copyright-landscape-for-protection-of-it-products

• Kluwer Trademark Blog: The Trident Unleashed: Important Amendments to Trademark Law in Ukraine.

https://trademarkblog.kluweriplaw.com/2023/08/04/the-trident-unleashed-important-amendments-to-trademark-law-in-ukraine/

• Lexology: Art Law in Ukraine https://mamunya-ip.com/posts/art-law-in-ukraine