The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine has completed the consideration of the case at the request of PJSC “Carlsberg Ukraine”, which considered the actions of PJSC “Obolon” to be unfair competition. Carlsberg believed that Obolon during the release of beer under…
On August 21, 2022, the Law on Amendments and Supplements to Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Improving Legislation in the Fields of Intellectual Property and Providing State-Guaranteed Legal Aid will enter into force. Trademarks Opposition procedure…
From July 1, 2022, heated tobacco products are equated to regular cigarettes and all restrictions are applicable to them, as for tobacco products. From now on, all the norms of current legislation on protecting the public from harm from tobacco…
On June 23, 2022, the European Council officially granted the status of a candidate for the European Union to Ukraine and Moldova. In 2014, an association agreement was concluded between Ukraine and the EU, and on February 28, 2022, the…
All the list of official fees regarding Eurasian patents for inventions changes starting from July 1, 2022. The fees are increased by 25-39% depending on the action with a patent application. The official fee for filing grows from 28 thousand…
The Parliament of Ukraine extended the martial law in the country for another three months – until August 23, 2022. Thus, in accordance with the law On Protection of Interests of Persons in the Sphere of Intellectual Property during Martial…
June 1, 2022, enters into force a new value of basis for calculation of official fees in Uzbekistan, incl. fees for actions with intellectual property objects. The basis for calculation rises by 12%, i.e. all official fees for actions with…
The Cabinet of Ministers of Azerbaijan made the amendments to the list of official fees for actions with trademarks starting from May 19, 2022. The most significantly increased official fee for trademark renewal – the cost for renewing a trademark…
In January-March 2022, the Ukrainian IP Office received 5,891 applications for registration of new intellectual property rights objects, which is 40% lower than in the first quarter of 2021. The number of applications for registration of utility models decreased the…
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has approved a number of changes to the procedures for state registration and re-registration of medicines and their circulation for the period of martial law, in particular: – the procedure for emergency state registration…