On May 6, 2021, the Svyatoshinsky District Court of Kyiv passed a verdict against a resident of Ukraine who distributed pirated copies of films from the American studio Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. It was established that in the period from…
The Ministry of Economy of Ukraine has approved the Procedure and special requirements for food labeling, for which it is mandatory to indicate the country of origin or place of origin. The procedure establishes the rules for indicating the country…
From May 6, 2021, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has extended the possibility of the UDRP-based Domain Dispute Resolution Procedure at the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center to a number of third-level domains in the zone. UA. The procedure…
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…