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…
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…
The Sverdlovsk Department of the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) of Russia opened a case against the Ekaterinburg developer Brusnika. In its YouTube commercial, the Service found signs of five violations, including obscenity. The commercial shows a girl moving out of…
The Cabinet of Ministers of Uzbekistan adopted a resolution “On the introduction of a system of mandatory digital labeling of certain types of goods”, which approved the list of products subject to mandatory digital labeling by means of identification for…
The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine imposed a fine of UAH 493 thousand ($17 thousand) and ordered to stop the use without permission the intellectual property Dnipro Alcohol and Non-Alcohol Plant LLC for using packaging similar to that used by their…
Since the beginning of 2020, the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor) has already blocked more than 10 thousand sites infringes copyrights and their so-called mirrors (copies), while over the entire last year –…