From January 1, 2021, in connection with the increase in the size of the minimum level of subsistence for able-bodied persons, the amount of the court fee in Ukraine also increased. So, rates increased by 8% – the minimum wage…
On December 29, 2020, the President of Belarus signed the Decree “On the traceability of goods”, which is aimed at implementing an agreement on the mechanism of traceability of goods imported into the customs territory of the Eurasian Economic Union.…
The Economic Court of Kyiv canceled all claims of the Antimonopoly Committee against the manufacturer of the antiviral drug Proteflazid by Research and Production Company Ecopharm. In July 2020, the Antimonopoly Committee imposed a fine of UAH 3.2 million ($114…
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine adopted a decree dated December 23, 2020, which amended a number of other government decrees in the field of intellectual property. So, from the decree on state registration of copyright and contracts that relate…
The head of the Federal Service for Intellectual Rights (Rospatent), Grigory Ivliev, appealed to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Vyacheslav Lebedev with a request to form a good in law practice on disputes around well-known trademarks. Rospatent notes…
According to the estimates of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia, the 2D digital code marking of tobacco products made it possible to reverse the negative trends in the market, due to which, after a long-term decline, the…
On December 18, 2020, the Russian Intellectual Property Court fully satisfied the claim of Mojang Synergies AB and Microsoft against the Russian company City LLC to annul the registration of the Minecraft trademark. The Swedish company Mojang released Minecraft in…
The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine imposed a fine of UAH 10.191 million ($364 thousand) on Pharmaceutical Company Zdorovye LLC for packaging of its drug Citramon-Zdorovye very similar to that used by the competitor Darnitsa Pharmaceutical Firm CJSC for the drug…
On December 14, 2020, the Moscow City Court satisfied the claim of S.B.A. Music Publishing (part of Warner Music Russia) to Google LLC about the blocking of the “Music Downloader – Free MP3 Downloader” application for distributing illegal copies of…
The Intellectual Property Rights Court of Russia upheld the settlement agreement and terminated the proceedings, in which the plaintiff Chistaya Liniya LLC (Clean Line) requested the early termination of the legal protection of a number of trademarks owned by the…