One of the most pressing issues for Uzbekistan is the acceleration of its accession to the World Trade Organization and the need to align national legislation with WTO norms. In this regard, based on the requirements of the Agreement on…
According to Lyudmila Zaporozhets, Head of the Department for Ensuring Judicial Protection of Intellectual Property Rights of the Department for Protection of Intellectual Property Rights of UKRNOIVI, in Ukraine, cases on intellectual property rights protection are usually considered for at…
According to the Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement (CEPA) between the European Union and Armenia, more than 3,000 geographical indications and geographical names of product origin have received legal protection in the territory of Armenia starting from November 15, 2024.…
On October 30, 2024, Kyrgyzpatent received the first application for registration of Arstanbap wild nut as a geographical indication. The application was submitted by the Association for the Management of the Geographical Indication “Arstanbap Wild Nut”. In March 2023, a…
On September 18, 2024, the Rules for drawing up, submitting a trademark application, application for international trademark registration, and conducting the examination of a trademark application, international trademark registration with extension to Ukraine entered into force. The new rules comply…
From October 1, 2024, Uzbekistan implemented an annual increase in the size of the basic calculation value used to calculate a number of state fees, including for actions with objects of intellectual property. The size of the basic estimated value…
The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine recognized that “Behealth” LLC violated the Law of Ukraine “On Protection from Unfair Competition” by spreading misleading information, by posting on the website and the packaging of the dietary supplement “Feminozide” false information about the…
On August 21, 2024, the Parliament of Ukraine supported a draft law prohibiting the placement of advertising information on medicine packages. From now on, manufacturers of medicinal products will not be able to place on the outer and inner packaging…
The Supreme Court of Ukraine has put an end to the dispute that has been ongoing since 2021 regarding the registration as a trademark of the signature pink color of the Hungarian airline Wizz Air. In May 2018, a Hungarian…
The Swiss Société des Produits Nestlé S.A., represented by Studio Barbero S.p.A., filed a complaint with the WIPO Center for Arbitration and Mediation regarding the disputed domain name “nespresso.kiev.ua”. The administrator of the public domain .UA sent an email to…