On May 29, 2025, the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine recognized that Aqua-Polyana LLC committed a violation stipulated by the Law “On Protection against Unfair Competition” in the form of spreading misleading information. The Committee established that Aqua-Polyana LLC distributed misleading…
On May 2, 2025, the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine registered the order of the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine “On approval of the Procedure for considering applications for additional protection of invention rights”. “The new rules are another step…
On May 15, 2025, the Law on Amendments to Certain Laws of Ukraine regarding the Implementation of the Bolar Provision was adopted. The law provides that registration of medicines can be carried out the day after the patent for the…
On April 29, 2025, the President of Ukraine signed legislation repealing the suspension of deadlines concerning intellectual property rights that had been in force during martial law. The provisions that have been effective since 2022 will cease to apply following…
The Grand Chamber of the Supreme Court of Ukraine confirmed the conclusions of the court of appeals that a change of trademark owner does not affect the five-year period of continuous non-use of a trademark as a basis for early…
On March 18, 2025, the Parliament of Georgia supported the ratification of the “Geneva Act of the Lisbon Agreement on Appellations of Origin and Geographical Indications”. As a result, the scope of protection of Georgian unique products has significantly expanded…
Based on the results of 2024, territorial bodies of the Ministry of Justice of Kazakhstan conducted 338 inspections and identified 297 violations under the article “illegal use of a trademark”. 283 cases were initiated, 267 persons were brought to administrative…
On 13 February 2025, the State Agency of Intellectual Property and Innovation under the Cabinet of Ministers of the Kyrgyz Republic (Kyrgyzpatent) announced, that it started to issue security documents for intellectual property objects and patent attorney certificates in electronic…
The Ukrainian National Office of Intellectual Property and Innovation (IP Office) has recognized as a well-known in Ukraine a three-dimensional (three-dimensional) trademark in the form of a minifigure belonging to the Danish company Lego Juris A/S (part of the LEGO…
In 2024, 447 trademark-related lawsuits were filed in civil courts in Kazakhstan, which is a record number in the last 10 years and almost 4 times more than in 2023. Such a sharp increase can be considered anomalous since previously…