On October 21, 2021, the Moscow Arbitration Court banned Samsung Electronics and its Russian representative office from selling and storing 61 models of Samsung smartphones in Russia. The court banned the import into the territory of Russia, the offer for…
The Supreme Court of Ukraine confirmed the legality of the imposition by the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine of three fines on Niva LLC for violation of the legislation on protection against unfair competition in the total amount of UAH 1.068…
The Chamber for Patent Disputes of the Federal Institute of Industrial Property has confirmed the refusal of Microsoft Corporation to grant legal protection to the Power Automate trademark in Russia. The application in Russia was filed under the international procedure…
On September 21, 2021, the Ukrainian parliament adopted a bill that allows the purchase of innovative medicines at the expense of the state budget under managed entry agreements. The concept of managed entry agreements (MEAs) appeared in Ukrainian legislation in…
Soviet and Georgian chess player Nona Gaprindashvili filed a lawsuit in the US court against Netflix for one episode in the mini-series The Queen’s Gambit. “We have been working on the lawsuit for a long time, almost immediately after this…
On September 10, 2021, the Ukrainian parliament amended the law “On Advertising” regarding combating discrimination on the basis of sex. Thus, the Law “On Advertising” is supplemented with the following definitions: – discriminatory advertising – advertising containing or using statements…
The Russian Hermitage Museum sent a complaint to the leader of the Rammstein and Lindemann groups, Till Lindemann, about the illegal use of the museum’s name and digital images of works of art when issuing NFT tokens. In May 2021,…
At a meeting on August 26, 2021, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine authorized the application of an excise tax stamp on the packaging of liquids used in electronic cigarettes. Also, the Cabinet of Ministers established that the period for…
The auto concern Daimler and the manufacturer of hydraulic equipment KYB have lost a lawsuit against the Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia (FAS) to challenge the FAS ruling on the import of repair parts. In 2020, the FAS commission considered…
According to the operator of the 2D digital code marking Center for the Development of Advanced Technologies, the share of illegal tobacco products in Russia for the year decreased by more than 30% and reached 8.09% of the total market…