The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine has provided advisory clarifications on the application of the provisions of the Law “On Protection against Unfair Competition” on the dissemination of misleading information. The advisory clarifications highlight the Committee’s approach to identifying claims in…
The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine has provided recommendations to CJSC Pervomaisky Dairy Canning Plant and CJSC Khmelnitskaya Maslosyrbaza, which use condensed milk packaging similar in style from other manufacturers: LLC Milk-Invest and CJSC Ichnya Milk Canning Plant. The companies began…
The Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia, the Federal Tax Service (FTS), and the “CRPT Operator” have entered into an agreement on cooperation in the traceability of the turnover of digital marked goods. The current government decree on the…
The Eurasian Patent Office announced that the acceptance of applications for the grant of Eurasian patents for industrial designs will begin from June 1, 2021. However, not all member countries of the Eurasian Patent Organization have completed the ratification of…
The Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia (FAS) found that TV commercials for Bayer’s Theraflex Chondrocream Forte and GlaxoSmithKline’s Teraflu violate the Advertising Law. In the advertising video of the drug “Theraflex Chondrocream Forte”, the positive effect and effectiveness of the…
On March 3, 2021, the Parliament of Kazakhstan adopted the law “On Ratification of the Agreement on trademarks, service marks and appellations of origin of goods of the Eurasian Economic Union”. The agreement creates a new one-stop-shop registration system for…
Rospatent registered the first geographical indication in Russia in relation to wine products – “Kuban”. At the end of 2020, three associations filed an application for registration of the geographical indication “Kuban”: “The self-regulatory organization “Winegrowers and Winemakers”, “Winemaking Union”,…
As part of the decree of the President of Uzbekistan “On measures to improve the system of protection of intellectual property rights objects”, a number of innovations are being introduced into the procedures for registering IP objects from April 1,…
On February 25, 2021, the Supreme Court of Ukraine upheld the decision to satisfy the claims of McDonald’s in a dispute with the Ukrainian holding Ascania-Trading on the complete cancellation of registrations of the Mc’Corn and MacCorn trademarks. In 2018,…
Since March 1, 2021, a new information resource has been posted in the open access on the web portal of the Eurasian Patent Organization – the Pharmaceutical Register, containing information on Eurasian patents related to pharmacologically active substances that have…