The Kalininsky District Court of St. Petersburg awarded Dmitry Miklouho-Maclay, known under the pseudonym Dmitry Orekhov, compensation for using his parody play Bluff. In 2018, Orekhov learned that Peter Production LLC was staging the play Bluff, which, as he believed,…
On April 27, 2021, the Parliament of Ukraine adopted in the first reading a bill amending the Law On Advertising on advertising of electronic cigarettes and liquids used in electronic cigarettes. The bill proposes to amend the article of the…
The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine has provided advisory clarifications on the application of the provisions of the Law “On Protection against Unfair Competition” on the dissemination of misleading information. The advisory clarifications highlight the Committee’s approach to identifying claims in…
The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine has provided recommendations to CJSC Pervomaisky Dairy Canning Plant and CJSC Khmelnitskaya Maslosyrbaza, which use condensed milk packaging similar in style from other manufacturers: LLC Milk-Invest and CJSC Ichnya Milk Canning Plant. The companies began…
The Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia, the Federal Tax Service (FTS), and the “CRPT Operator” have entered into an agreement on cooperation in the traceability of the turnover of digital marked goods. The current government decree on the…
The Eurasian Patent Office announced that the acceptance of applications for the grant of Eurasian patents for industrial designs will begin from June 1, 2021. However, not all member countries of the Eurasian Patent Organization have completed the ratification of…
The Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia (FAS) found that TV commercials for Bayer’s Theraflex Chondrocream Forte and GlaxoSmithKline’s Teraflu violate the Advertising Law. In the advertising video of the drug “Theraflex Chondrocream Forte”, the positive effect and effectiveness of the…
On March 3, 2021, the Parliament of Kazakhstan adopted the law “On Ratification of the Agreement on trademarks, service marks and appellations of origin of goods of the Eurasian Economic Union”. The agreement creates a new one-stop-shop registration system for…
Rospatent registered the first geographical indication in Russia in relation to wine products – “Kuban”. At the end of 2020, three associations filed an application for registration of the geographical indication “Kuban”: “The self-regulatory organization “Winegrowers and Winemakers”, “Winemaking Union”,…
As part of the decree of the President of Uzbekistan “On measures to improve the system of protection of intellectual property rights objects”, a number of innovations are being introduced into the procedures for registering IP objects from April 1,…