Ministry of Economy publishes Draft Intellectual Property Development Strategy 2030

On 21 November 2025, the Ministry of Economy, Environment and Agriculture of Ukraine (MoE) published a draft Intellectual Property Development Strategy 2030 (the Strategy) for public consultations.

The Strategy defines the strategic goals and tasks aimed at improving State policy and creating a favourable environment for developing intellectual property in Ukraine, as well as ensuring an effective system to protect and enforce intellectual property rights.

Development of the Strategy is envisaged by the Government’s Priority Action Plan for 2025, approved by Order of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine No. 1003-р dated 10 September 2025, as well as by the Ukraine Plan, approved by Order of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine No. 244 dated 18 March 2024. The Strategy’s aim is to implement the European Union’s Ukraine Facility initiative, as established by Regulation (EU) 2024/792 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 February 2024.

The Strategy includes the following priority areas for intellectual property development:

1. Intellectual property for all: improving access to the intellectual property system for authors, entrepreneurs, researchers, inventors, representatives of creative industries, and startups. Establishing favourable conditions for using intellectual property rights as a tool for business development, export promotion, and shaping a positive international image of Ukraine.
2. European integration and harmonising legal standards: fully aligning Ukraine’s intellectual property legislation with the EU acquis and international treaties. Improving cooperation with leading international organisations and integration into global intellectual property information systems.
3. Digital transformation of the intellectual property system: implementing comprehensive digitisation of processes, services, and tools in the intellectual property sphere. Establishing modern electronic registers integrated with international platforms and developing data-driven analytical tools.
4. Innovation, artificial intelligence, and technology development: fostering a favourable environment for the national innovation ecosystem; supporting invention, patenting, and the commercialisation of research results.
5. An effective system for the protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights: strengthening the institutional capacity of the state authorities, the judicial system, and customs and law enforcement bodies. Increasing effectiveness in combating piracy and counterfeiting, and ensuring transparency and integrity in the activities of all participants in the intellectual property sphere.
6. Intellectual property in national security and defence: introducing effective mechanisms to manage intellectual property rights in the defence and industrial complex and dual-use technology sectors.
7. Developing a culture of respect for intellectual property rights and human capital in society, education, and business.

The Strategy implementation process is planned to take place in two stages:

• First stage (2026–2028): executing the operational plan, fully implementing EU intellectual property legislation, developing Ukraine’s national intellectual property system and infrastructure, strengthening the institutional capacity of the National Intellectual Property Office, digital transformation, and improvements to the quality of public services.
• Second stage (2029–2030): strengthening the role of intellectual property in economic growth, specifically through developing innovative production methods, expanding export potential, and increasing relevant sectors’ share of in the state’s GDP.

On 1 November 2025, the Parliament of Ukraine announced the commencement of public consultations regarding amendments to Books 4, 6, and 8 of the Civil Code of Ukraine.

The amendments proposed for Book 4 “Intellectual Property Rights” concern the following matters:

• articulating the concept and content of intellectual property rights, as well as their correlation to property rights
• clarifying the list of objects of intellectual property rights, introducing the concepts of “sui generis objects” and “know-how”
• clarifying notions of the creator of an object of intellectual property rights
• introducing the concept of “personal rights” instead of “personal non-proprietary rights”
• clarifying the notion of geographical indication
• clarifying the moment of transfer of economic rights to intellectual property
• clarifying the grounds and procedure for protecting intellectual property rights
• clarifying the moment of a work’s creation
• clarifying the regulation of relations concerning objects of related rights
• supplementing provisions regulating relations concerning intellectual property rights to trade secrets
• including provisions regulating relations concerning intellectual property rights to industrial designs
• expanding provisions concerning intellectual property rights to plant varieties and animal breeds, etc.

On 4 November 2025, the Parliament of Ukraine adopted the draft law “On Amendments to the Civil Code of Ukraine Regarding Economic Rights to Intellectual Property to Objects Created in Connection with Military Service” (reg. No. 13110 dated 17 March 2025) as a whole in the second reading.

According to this draft law, Article 429 of the Civil Code of Ukraine has been supplemented with provisions regarding the emergence and ownership of intellectual property rights to objects created by military personnel while performing their official duties. According to the proposed amendments, moral rights (i.e. personal non-proprietary rights) to an intellectual property object created by military personnel in connection with the performance of official duties during military service belong to the military personnel who created the object, while the economic rights to such object belong (depending on the place of service) to the relevant entity as determined by the Law "On Military Duty and Military Service", namely, the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine, the Main Directorate of the National Guard of Ukraine, the central executive body implementing state policy in the field of state border guard, the central executive body responsible for development and implementation of state policy in the fields of special communications and information protection, the Security Service of Ukraine, the Department of the State Protection of Ukraine, the respective intelligence agencies of Ukraine.

This law enters into force on the day following the day of its publication, but not earlier than the day of entry into force of the Law of Ukraine “On Amendments to Certain Laws of Ukraine Regarding Intellectual Property Rights to Objects Created in Connection with Military Service” No. 4585-IX dated 21 August 2025 (entering into force on 12 December 2025).

By specifying the matters of ownership of intellectual property rights (moral and economic rights) to objects created by military personnel, as well as the specifics of such objects’ registration, the Law of Ukraine “On Amendments to Certain Laws of Ukraine Regarding Intellectual Property Right to Objects Created in Connection with Military Service” amends the laws of Ukraine “On Protection of Rights to Industrial Designs”, “On Protection of Rights to the Layout of Semiconductor Products”, “On the Statute of Internal Service of the Armed Forces of Ukraine”, “On the Legal Regime of Property in the Armed Forces of Ukraine”, “On Protection of Rights to Inventions and Utility Models”, “On Military Duty and Military Service”, “On State Regulation of Activities in the Field of Technology Transfer”, “On Copyright and Related Rights”.

According to these amendments, the economic rights to an object of intellectual property rights that was created in connection with performing official duties during military service belong to the state.

On 5 November 2025, the Parliament of Ukraine adopted a draft law on amendments to the Civil Code of Ukraine in connection with the update, or recodification, of the provisions of Book 2 (reg. No. 14057 dated 21 September 2025).

Specifically, this draft law stipulates individual rights to establish, use, and protect a personal or family coat of arms as a means of identifying an individual and/or their affiliation with a particular family; providing for the registration of a personal or family coat of arms as a trademark, as a part of a trademark, or as another object of intellectual property rights in accordance with the applicable law. The draft law also stipulates that a personal or family coat of arms must be unique and may contain graphics, images, colours, symbols, mottos, and other heraldic elements. However, a personal or family coat of arms may not contain symbols whose manufacture, distribution, and public use are prohibited by the law in Ukraine.

An individual whose personal or family coat of arms is illegally being used by other persons has the right to demand cessation of such use.

The draft law is currently being prepared for its second reading.

On 3 November 2025, Order No. 337 of the MoE dated 27 August 2025 came into force, providing for amendments to the “Procedure for state registration of copyright and agreements concerning economic rights to work”.

Among other things, the amendments provide for:

• issuance to applicants of a certificate of registration of an agreement relating to economic rights to a work instead of a decision on the registration of the agreement
• a reduction to 30 calendar days of the consideration period for applications for state registration of an author’s right to a work and an agreement relating to economic rights to a work
• the potential to extend the period set for eliminating deficiencies at the request of the applicant
• the potential to obtain a corrected (new) decision on state registration of copyright to a work, a decision on state registration of an agreement relating to economic rights to a work, and a relevant certificate, in order to replace those issued with typos and mistakes
• return to the applicant or their representative of the original documents submitted in paper after the issuance of a certificate of registration of copyright to a work or an agreement relating to the author's right to a work, or a decision on refusal of state registration of copyright to a work, or an agreement relating to the economic rights to a work.

Applications that were submitted prior to 3 November 2025 will be considered in accordance with the “Procedure for state registration of copyright and agreements relating to economic rights to a work”, as approved by Order of the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine No. 11319 dated 16 August 2023.

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