The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine provided Ukrainian companies LLC Atlantis, PMP Lozmen, LLC Ukrainian Distribution Company, LLC SP Aquavintex with mandatory recommendations to consider stopping the use designations on labels, counter labels and in advertising that could mislead consumers, about…
The State Duma of Russia adopted a law amending the Civil Code, according to which Rospatent will be able to issue protecting documents in electronic form and accept applications containing three-dimensional models of the claimed intellectual property rights object. After…
The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine fined Yuria-Pharm LLC 528 thousand hryvnias ($20 thousand) for disseminating false information about its ability to fight coronaviruses in advertising its medicine ‘Dekasan’. The manufacturer assured in the commercial that the medicine acts on all…
On June 30, 2020, orders of the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine No. 281 and No. 282 of June 9, 2020, aimed at improving the protection of intellectual property rights at customs, entered into force. The need to develop relevant…
Geropharm pharmaceutical company (Saint Petersburg) filed a lawsuit with the Intellectual Property Rights Court regarding the cancellation of the extension of one of the Novo Nordisk’s invention. Danish pharmaceutical manufacturer Novo Nordisk A/S has filed an application for registration of…
Luxembourg company Soremartec S.A. (Ferrero group) has achieved recognition of the Raffaello trademark as well-known in Russia. Soremartec S.A. filed an application for recognition of TM Raffaello as well-known in relation to goods of the 30th class of ICGS (candies)…
The Government of Belarus, by a resolution of June 19, 2020, amended the procedure for providing legal protection to appellations of origin – the administrative procedures for registration and issuance of a certificate for the right to use an appellation…
The Chamber of Patent Disputes upheld the previous decision of Rospatent and refused to register the combined trademark ‘Fix Price Coffee’ in the name of entrepreneur Semyon Lomakin. Lomakin filed an application for trademark registration regarding goods and services in…
On June 16, 2020, the parliament of Ukraine adopted a law establishing the National Intellectual Property Authority. Thus, the 4-year period of institutional reform of the sphere of intellectual property in Ukraine ends. The creation of the National IP Agency…
The Moscow Arbitration Court completely refused the former Domino’s Pizza franchisee Eugeniy Khoronko in a lawsuit against a network of pizzerias for compensation of 27 million rubles ($420 thousand). In addition, the court decided to satisfy Domino’s counterclaim against the…