WASHINGTON – On October 13-20, 2017, the Commercial Law Development Program, in cooperation with the High Commercial Court of Ukraine and the U.S. Federal Judicial Center, held a weeklong consultative visit on the development and utilization of judicial benchbooks. The consultations took place in Minneapolis and Washington, D.C., as part of efforts to assist Ukraine to obtain more effective adjudication of intellectual property cases. Seen in the photo are: (top row, from left) Bogdan Lvov, chairman of the High Commercial Court of Ukraine; Ihor Benedysiuk, chairman of the High Council of Justice; Viktor Moskalenko, deputy chairman of the High Commercial Court of Ukraine (retired); Dorian Mazurkevich, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office; Kris Markarian, U.S. Federal Judicial Center, (bottom row) Iryna Gladka, Commercial Law Development Program; Maryna Domanska, Kyiv Commercial Court of Appeals; Oksana Humeha, Kyiv Commercial Court; Natalia Plias, head of apparatus of the High Commercial Court of Ukraine.