Because of Tabachnyk’s scheme, the Armed Forces of Ukraine may be left without mortar shells: former MP reported a crime

Because of Tabachnyk’s scheme, the Armed Forces of Ukraine may be left without mortar shells: former MP reported a crime

Ukrainian mortar manufacturers are receiving letters prohibiting them from producing this much-needed ammunition for the front without a license that is being offered for purchase from a private company. This was reported by former Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine and former Member of Parliament Andriy Senchenko on Facebook.

"As a person who was once taught for six years how to produce ammunition, I remember that the mortar shell was first used in the 1904 year during the siege of Port Arthur. Since the start of World War I its design has not fundamentally changed... In the absence of the internet and other channels of rapid information exchange in that historical period, it is impossible to establish the inventor of this ammunition with 100% certainty. But to this day no source has mentioned among the inventors of mortar shells any figures from Krasyliv, Khmelnytskyi region of Ukraine," the politician writes.

LLC "Krasyliv Aggregate Plant", which is part of the Ukroboronprom structure, is the "owner of patent" No. 153506 for the utility model "Mortar Shell." This patent, Senchenko claims, 12.07.2023 is registered in the state registry, and information about it was published in Bulletin No. 28. After the registration of the "utility model" and receiving the patent, a group of inventors "began, under the signature of the director of LLC 'Krasyliv Aggregate Plant' Protsyuk, to send letters to Ukrainian enterprises warning them that 'further production by your enterprise of military products in accordance with the utility model under patent No. 153506 (regardless of caliber) is possible only if a corresponding license agreement is concluded with LLC 'Krasyliv Aggregate Plant.'"

According to him, for continuing production of mortar shells and their subsequent transfer to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, this could result in a registered criminal offense related to copyright and related rights, which provides for civil, administrative, and criminal liability.

"This brought to mind not only the history of the mortar and its ammunition, but also the history of the National Intellectual Property Office, which over the years of independence has changed status and name many times, yet has not rid itself of the scheming spirit of Ukraine betrayer Dmytro Tabachnyk, who at one time turned it into an instrument of 'intellectual raiding' and 'intellectual racketeering.' It seems he still operates in that capacity. What is happening now with the participation of the 'Krasyliv inventors' and the 'specialists' of the State System of Legal Protection of Intellectual Property grossly violates the provisions of Article 7 of the Law of Ukraine 'On the Protection of Rights to Inventions and Utility Models' and undermines confidence in Ukraine, which since 25 December 1991 has been a member of the Union for the Protection of Industrial Property formed under the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property of 20 March 1883," the expert noted.

He believes this activity, against the backdrop of Russia’s armed aggression, "has all the signs of actions that obstruct the production of ammunition for the Ukrainian army and thus undermine the defense capability of our state under martial law." "I ask the Security Service of Ukraine to consider this publication a report of a crime. At the same time, I advise the new head of Ukroboronprom, Herman Smetanin, to promptly deal with the personnel legacy he inherited from his predecessors," Andriy Senchenko concluded.