NATIONAL WORKSHOP ON BUILDING RESPECT FOR IP AND COMBATING COUNTERFEITING AND PIRACY IN THE DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT

The representatives of the National Center of Intellectual Property, World Intellectual Property Organization, Belarusian specialized agencies, organizations and companies, and also the French lawyer contributed to the coverage of the current situation in the field of countering infringements of intellectual property rights in the digital environment at the national and international levels.

The reports of invited speakers were accompanied by active discussions with attendees of the Workshop, interested in working out of ways to improve the national legislation and practices of enforcement of intellectual property rights in the digital environment.

Mr. Piotr Broukin, National Center of Intellectual Property	Mr. Aleksander Martinkevich, High Technologies Park of Belarus
Mr. Thomas Dillon, World Intellectual Property Organization	Ms. Alexandra Neri, Herbert Smith Freehills Paris LLP
Mr. Alexey Bichurin, National Center of Intellectual Property	Mr. Valentin Rachkovsky, BelBrand Consult LLC
Ms. Iryna Ivanova, State Customs Committee of the Republic of Belarus	Mr. Alexander Pogosky, Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Belarus
Mr. Oleg Latyshevich, Supreme Court of the Republic of Belarus	Mr. Sergei Prokopov, Operational and Analytical Center under the Aegis of the President of the Republic of Belarus
Roundtable Discussion	Roundtable Discussion