Attorney at law Sanja Vukina is the founder and partner in Law firm Vukina & Partners Ltd. Mrs Vukina has been registered with the Croatian State Intellectual Property Office as a patent and trademark attorney since 1993. She is also a member of the Executive Board of the Croatian Association of Patent and Trademark Attorneys, a European patent attorney, Croatian representative with the European Patent Institute and a certified trainer for licensing agreements for the Licensing Executives Society International.

Membership in professional associations:

Hrvatska odvjetnička komora (HOK / CBA; Croatian Bar Association), Hrvatska komora patentnih zastupnika i zastupnika za žigove (Croatian Association of Patent and Trademark Attorneys), Hrvatsko društvo za autorsko pravo (HDAP; Croatian Copyright Association), International Trademark Association (INTA), Institute of Professional Representatives before the European Patent Office (EPI), International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI), European Association of Lawyers (AEA), European Communities Trade Mark Association (ECTA).

Education and professional experience:

Attorney at law Sanja Vukina graduated from the Faculty of Law at Zagreb University in 1987, and in 1990 she passed the Croatian Bar Exam. In the period between 1988 and 1993 she worked at the Zagreb County Court and the Municipal State Attorney’s Office in Zagreb. In 1993 she established her own law office in Zagreb and in 2013 she founded Law firm Vukina & Partners Ltd.

Additional education/qualifications:

Intellectual Property Law Summer School, Cambridge University, UK; Program of Instruction for Lawyers, Harvard Law School, SAD; Training course: Obtaining, Enforcing and Evaluating Intellectual Property Rights in Europe, München, Germany; Patent Law and Practice in Pharmaceutical, London, UK; Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School (Harvard, MIT & Tufts), SAD.

Languages:
Croatian
English