Axon Partners represented Roman Skrypin in domain name dispute with Hromadske TV

Last week, the World Intellectual Property Organization Arbitration and Mediation Center (WIPO) dismissed the complaint filed by Hromadske TV against their former CEO, Roman Skrypin. Therefore, the “hromadske.tv” domain name is fully owned by Mr. Skrypin. Dmytro Gadomsky and Lidiya Klymkiv, Axon Partners, represented Mr. Skrypin in the dispute.

“Start-ups have become very trendy in Ukraine of late, while it is not trendy at all to resolve issues with business partners amicably. Delving into someone’s dirty laundry is, as a rule, an unrewarding job, but sometimes it’s a necessary evil. Axon Partners has provided legal support to Mr. Skrypin, and at the outset, we noticed two nuances of extreme delicacy. We suppose that we reveal them. The most subtle nuance is whether it is a requirement to execute any agreement for a project to obtain a domain name (this case involves an NGO). The second nuance is the opportunism that was unexpectedly indicated by the arbiter with regard to Mr. Skrypin’s actions,”- commented Lidiya Klymkiv, Associate, Axon Partners.