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…
The Unified Customs Register of Intellectual Property Objects is an effective way to block counterfeit goods on the borders in Ukraine. In November 2019, the new norms of the Customs Code of Ukraine regarding the protection of intellectual property rights…
The District Court of Kyiv issued an explanation that due to the entry into force of the law amending certain legislative acts aimed at providing additional social and economic guarantees due to the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-2019), court decisions…
March 31, 2020, the Parliament of Ukraine adopted the law On Amending Certain Legislative Acts Concerning the Turnover of Agricultural Land. If earlier the opening of the land market in Ukraine was planned from October 1, 2020, in the final…
The law allows the import and use in Ukraine of unregistered medicines officially recommended for the treatment of COVID-19 by the authorities of the USA, EU member states