The Government of Belarus, by a resolution of June 19, 2020, amended the procedure for providing legal protection to appellations of origin – the administrative procedures for registration and issuance of a certificate for the right to use an appellation…
The Chamber of Patent Disputes upheld the previous decision of Rospatent and refused to register the combined trademark ‘Fix Price Coffee’ in the name of entrepreneur Semyon Lomakin. Lomakin filed an application for trademark registration regarding goods and services in…
On June 16, 2020, the parliament of Ukraine adopted a law establishing the National Intellectual Property Authority. Thus, the 4-year period of institutional reform of the sphere of intellectual property in Ukraine ends. The creation of the National IP Agency…
The Moscow Arbitration Court completely refused the former Domino’s Pizza franchisee Eugeniy Khoronko in a lawsuit against a network of pizzerias for compensation of 27 million rubles ($420 thousand). In addition, the court decided to satisfy Domino’s counterclaim against the…
On June 2, 2020, the Ukrainian parliament adopted a draft law amending certain laws of Ukraine regarding the elimination of artificial bureaucratic barriers and corruption factors in the healthcare sector. According to the new rules, will not be recognized as…
The State Duma of Russia approved amendments to the law “On Information, Information Technologies and the Protection of Information”. Since October 1, 2020, the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor) will be able to…
On May 13, 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Communities published a lawsuit from Rot Front confectionery company (Moscow, Russia) to Roshen confectionery corporation (Kyiv, Ukraine) demanding the cancellation of registration of a figurative trademark for candies ‘Chamomile’…
The Supreme Court of Ukraine in the case ‘Organization of Collective Management of Copyright and Related Rights and Warner Music Ukraine v. City Cafe LLC (Barbaresco Cafe, Ternopil)’, confirmed the conclusions of the courts of previous instances that receiving permission…
The Supreme Court of Ukraine, in the framework of a dispute between Chateau 2013 LLC (Odesa) and the Advertising Department of the Odesa City Council, identified signs of providing information about a product/service that would not be considered advertising and…
The Department of Cyber Police of Ukraine conducted 17 searches in three regions of the country to stop the activities of a criminal group that sold fake Apple products using a network of online stores. Fraudsters have created more than…