At the end of 2020, China retained the status of Ukraine’s largest trading partner, which it first received in 2019. The total trade turnover of Ukraine in 2020 amounted to $103.4 billion, decreasing by 6.4% compared to 2019. Imports in…
On January 5, 2021, the government of Ukraine approved a draft law on withdrawal from the agreement within the framework of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) on cooperation in the field of the legal protection of intellectual property and…
From January 1, 2021, in connection with the increase in the size of the minimum level of subsistence for able-bodied persons, the amount of the court fee in Ukraine also increased. So, rates increased by 8% – the minimum wage…
On December 29, 2020, the President of Belarus signed the Decree “On the traceability of goods”, which is aimed at implementing an agreement on the mechanism of traceability of goods imported into the customs territory of the Eurasian Economic Union.…
The Economic Court of Kyiv canceled all claims of the Antimonopoly Committee against the manufacturer of the antiviral drug Proteflazid by Research and Production Company Ecopharm. In July 2020, the Antimonopoly Committee imposed a fine of UAH 3.2 million ($114…
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine adopted a decree dated December 23, 2020, which amended a number of other government decrees in the field of intellectual property. So, from the decree on state registration of copyright and contracts that relate…
On December 18, 2020, the Russian Intellectual Property Court fully satisfied the claim of Mojang Synergies AB and Microsoft against the Russian company City LLC to annul the registration of the Minecraft trademark. The Swedish company Mojang released Minecraft in…
The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine imposed a fine of UAH 10.191 million ($364 thousand) on Pharmaceutical Company Zdorovye LLC for packaging of its drug Citramon-Zdorovye very similar to that used by the competitor Darnitsa Pharmaceutical Firm CJSC for the drug…
The Sverdlovsk Department of the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) of Russia opened a case against the Ekaterinburg developer Brusnika. In its YouTube commercial, the Service found signs of five violations, including obscenity. The commercial shows a girl moving out of…
The Cabinet of Ministers of Uzbekistan adopted a resolution “On the introduction of a system of mandatory digital labeling of certain types of goods”, which approved the list of products subject to mandatory digital labeling by means of identification for…