Igor Motsnyi

Areas of practice: Trademarks and domain names, UDRP and Domain Disputes, IP and copyright

Igor Motsnyi (Mocni) is an IP, Trademark and Domain Names consultant with international experience. Igor holds an LLM degree from Leiden University, the Netherlands and completed post-graduate specialization course on Intellectual Property jointly organized by Turin University (Italy) and WIPO Academy. Prior to establishing his own firm Igor worked as an in-house counsel in a number of IT companies and international law firms, including one of the leading US law firms and as a head of IT law practice in an English law firm.

Igor has extensive experience in a broad range of IP and IT matters including trademarks, domain names, copyright, know-how, patents, computer software, technology licensing, IP transactions and IP due diligence.

Igor Motsnyi is a member of IPC (Intellectual Property Constituency), GNSO at ICANN, ECTA and the ITechLaw Association.

Igor is a regular speaker at national and international conferences on law and technology and has numerous publications on IP/IT. Igor is one of the organizers of an international IP conference in Belgrade, Serbia – “Protection of IP in Digital Environment”.

Igor Motsnyi is a UDRP panelist with the Czech Arbitration Court and the ADNDRC and a URS examiner with the MFSD, Milan – a Uniform Rapid Suspension system (URS) dispute resolution provider approved by ICANN and the only URS provider located in Europe.

Languages: English, Serbian, Croatian, Russian, Ukrainian and Polish.

Jelena Milovanovic

Areas: Translation (Russian, English, Serbian), Business Development, Intellectual property (contentious and non-contentious)

Jelena Milovanovic is a client relations and business development manager.

She has been with “Motsnyi Legal Services” since the very beginning (January 2011).

Jelena obtained master’s degree in Russian language and literature from Belgrade university and she has been also been dealing with various IP matters including trademarks, domain names and international IP projects in multiple jurisdictions.

Jelena has extensive experience in business development and marketing, including organizing various international conferences and events in Serbia and communicating with clients globally.

She is dealing with a broad range of IP matters, including but not limited to, trademark searches, TM prosecution globally, the UDRP and ccTLD proceedings, assistance in preparing responses to the provisional refuses in various jurisdictions, research and investigation related to the trademark infringements, preparation of documents for TM registration, TM assignment and license and assistance with other matters related to the trademarks and IP in various jurisdictions.

She has participated in a number of international conferences in different parts of Europe, including various INTA and ECTA events.

Jelena is a native Serbian speaker and is fluent in Russian and English languages.