About Outside IP Counsel

Each piece examines a significant ruling (its procedural posture, the court's reasoning, the doctrinal questions it resolves and those it leaves open) and traces what the decision means in practice. Coverage is national in scope, with particular attention to the questions most pressing for founders, startups, and the companies building with artificial intelligence. We also publish plain-English practical guides and an IP glossary.

Lidiia Levitska is an international intellectual property attorney with extensive experience in dispute resolution, policy development, and IP advisory across global institutions and government bodies. Her work spans the full range of intellectual property, from trademarks and designs to patents, copyright, and trade secrets. It combines the perspective of an international organization, an industry advocate, and a public servant.

Most recently, from 2021 to 2025, Lidiia served at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), where she managed arbitration cases and oversaw compliance with the Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy (UDRP), the framework that governs domain-name disputes worldwide. Before WIPO, she was a Senior Policy Officer at the American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine, leading complex policy research and development on intellectual property rights.

Her public-sector background includes roles at the Public Prosecutor's Office in Ukraine and an internship at the Parliament of Ukraine, experience that gives her a rare cross-sector vantage point spanning international organizations, advocacy, and government.

Lidiia graduated with honors with an LL.M. in International Intellectual Property Law from Chicago-Kent College of Law in Illinois and an M.A. in Information Technology Law from the University of Tartu, Estonia. She was admitted to the Ukrainian Bar in 2019.