A Dutch court seized the Stolichnaya and Moskovskaya trademarks owned by the Russian government through the Federal Treasury Enterprise Sojuzplodoimport. Trademarks seized as part of a compensation case to former Yukos Oil Company shareholders for $57 billion, which Russia should…
The Zborovsky district court of the Ternopil region held 125 thousand hryvnias ($4.7 thousand) of compensation for copyright infringement in favor of the owner of the HaHusky digital comics character, and also obliged the infringer to transfer the rights to…
Kazakhstan is the demanded jurisdiction by foreigners for the registration of trademarks. Every year, the National Institute of Intellectual Property (Kazpatent) receives 9-11 thousand new applications for trademark registration. Only a third of them from residents of Kazakhstan. Among recognized…
• Compliance of Product Labels and Packaging • Pre-Import consultation • Obtaining certificates of conformity • Obtaining licenses & permissions
Officers of the Territorial Inspectorate of the Border Police Sighetu Marmației (Romania) detected and seized nearly 30 thousand packs of cigarettes worth more than 2 million hryvnias (75 thousand USD) near the state border with Ukraine. Cigarettes were smuggled from…
The Chamber of Patent Disputes of the Federal Institute of Industrial Property (Rospatent) upheld the complaint of the German company Berlin-Chemie AG, which owns the Мезим/Mezym trademark, and canceled the registration of the Мезитим/Mesitim trademark of the Swiss company Organic…
The Government of Belarus, by decree No. 232 of April 15, 2020, introduced bans and restrictions on the sale of non-tobacco nicotine containing products. The Decree describes the particularities of selling tobacco products, electronic smoking systems, liquids for electronic smoking…
On April 28, 2020, the Beijing Treaty on Audiovisual Performances of the World Intellectual Property Organization officially entered into force. The treaty was adopted by WIPO Member States in 2012. The Beijing Treaty improves and adapts to modern realities the…
The unified customs register of intellectual property objects of the Eurasian Customs Union (EACU), the agreement on which was ratified back in 2010, did not work in reality and was officially liquidated in 2018. It was replaced by the Unified…
The Legal 500 recognized Crane IP Law Firm as a recommended firm in Intellectual property law in Ukraine and placed us in Tier 3 in 2020 ranking edition. ‘The firm has high-quality know-how combined with a very high legal level in the…