Julia Dutikova

Head of the Group for patenting in the area of medicine and pharmaceuticals

Ph.D. (BioChemistry), Russian Patent Attorney, Eurasian Patent Attorney

Julia is a part of the BioTech patent group in our company, concentrating on drafting patent applications, carrying out validity searches and contributing to freedom-to-operate opinions and patent disputes in pharmaceuticals and medical science.

Dr. Dutikova joined our team having profound experience in patent prosecution as a leading patent expert in the Division of Medicine and Pharmaceuticals of the Federal Institute of Industrial Property of the Russian Intellectual Property Office (RU PTO). Julia is the author of numerous publications in foreign and domestic journals dedicated to pharmaceuticals and patenting in this field. It is important to mention that Dr. Dutikova has repeatedly represented RU PTO as a speaker at the international events with participation of the RU PTO, both dedicated to patent expertise in the Russian Federation, as well as to the international activity of the Russian Intellectual Property Office.

Expertise

• Third International Meeting on G-Quadruplex and G-assembly, Sorrento (Italy), June 28 – July 01, 2011;
• Certificate of Professional Development for Experts Reviewing Applications for Inventions and Utility Models, Russian State Academy of Intellectual Property, Moscow, 2012;
• Novartis institutes for biomedical research, Certificate of Completion, Clinical Pharmacology, Moscow, April 22-25, 2014;
• European Patent academy, «Systematic approach to patent search» course, Munich, February 01 - April 15, 2016;
• World Intellectual Property Organization, Certificate of Completion of the Advanced Distance Learning Course on Patents. April 05 - July 15, 2016;
• World Intellectual Property Organization, certificate of completion of an advanced distance learning course in intellectual property management, September 01 – December 06, 2016;
• Government of India, Office of the CGPDTM-INDIA, Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Intellectual Property Management, Indian Patent Office,  BRICS Examiner Training Programme, Nagpur, February 20-24, 2017;
• World Intellectual Property Organization Certificate of Completion of the Advanced Distance Learning Course in Trademarks and Geographical Indications, April 10 - July 14, 2018;
• WIPO HAGUE, Certificate of attendance, Seminar on the Hague system for the international registration of industrial designs: practical approach and tips to make the most of the ever expanding system, Geneva, July 19, 2018;
• Trainer on the seminar «Madrid System for the International Registration of Trademarks and the Hague System for the International Registration of Industrial Designs», organized by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) together with the Federal Service for Intellectual Property (Rospatent), Chelyabinsk, October 23-24, 2018;
• National Seminar «Entry of the Russian Federation into the Hague System for the International Registration of Industrial Designs», organized by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the Federal Service for Intellectual Property (Rospatent), speaker, April 05, 2018;
• Speaker of the conference «Modern regulation of intellectual property and licensing in the EAEU countries», Minsk, June 05-08, 2019;
• International educational conference on intellectual property «IP Academy in Skolkovo», Round table «Pros and cons of the introduction of a unified register of patents for medicines», speaker, 2019;
• Federal Institute of Industrial Property, Advanced training program «Commercial and regulatory specifics of the circulation of medicines in the context of the protection of intellectual property rights», 2019;
• Master class «Basic approaches to the integrated protection of chemical and pharmaceutical products», Moscow State Law University, VIII Student Legal Forum, October 21-23, 2021;
• Co-author of the course «Legal protection of intellectual property in the field of chemistry and pharmaceuticals» of the Faculty of Chemistry of the Moscow State University, 2024.

Qualification

Dr. Dutikova holds M.Sc. in Engineering and Technology of Biologically Active Compounds from Moscow State Academy of Fine Chemical Technology named after Lomonosov and Ph.D. in Biochemistry (Oncology) after the N.N. Blown National Medical Research Centre of Oncology of the Ministry of Health of Russia. She also holds M.Sc. in Law from the Russian State Academy of Intellectual Property. As an expert of RU PTO Julia also practiced at the WIPO International Bureau and the European Patent Office.