On March 17, 2021, the Protocol on the Protection of Industrial Designs to the Eurasian Patent Convention, adopted in 2019, entered into force. Five countries participating in the Eurasian Patent Organization have already completed all the necessary procedures for the…
Rospatent published a report on the results of its activities in 2020. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic and the downturn in the economy, the intellectual property market is growing in Russia. At the end of 2020, Rospatent received a 7.3% increase…
The Federal Service for Intellectual Property (Rospatent) in February 2021 accepted the first application for an invention in the form of a three-dimensional model. The possibility to attach to applications for registration three-dimensional models of the claimed objects of intellectual…
From March 1, 2021, the import of unmarked alcoholic (except beer) and tobacco products into the territory of Uzbekistan is prohibited. Such norms were previously approved by the decree of the Cabinet of Ministers “On the introduction of a system…
The amount of compensation to the trademark owner for the sale of counterfeit goods should not be calculated solely on the basis of the cost of the license agreement or the norms of the Civil Code – the Supreme Court…
On February 3, 2021, the Cabinet of Ministers approved the Procedure for the formation of a list of unregistered medicines (by international non-proprietary names) that can be imported into the territory of Ukraine. The order was adopted after the amendments…
The Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia (FAS) fined LLC AKTIV (formerly SIBUR-AKTIV) for unfair competition. The company unlawfully used the well-known name that belongs to the largest petrochemical company in Russia, SIBUR Holding. SIBUR Holding itself complained about the company.…
The fact that the author has provided his unpublished works to a third party does not automatically mean that the author has committed actions aimed at disposing of copyright to this work since the very fact of opening access to…
At the end of 2020, China retained the status of Ukraine’s largest trading partner, which it first received in 2019. The total trade turnover of Ukraine in 2020 amounted to $103.4 billion, decreasing by 6.4% compared to 2019. Imports in…
On January 5, 2021, the government of Ukraine approved a draft law on withdrawal from the agreement within the framework of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) on cooperation in the field of the legal protection of intellectual property and…