On August 21, 2024, the Parliament of Ukraine supported a draft law prohibiting the placement of advertising information on medicine packages. From now on, manufacturers of medicinal products will not be able to place on the outer and inner packaging…
The Supreme Court of Ukraine has put an end to the dispute that has been ongoing since 2021 regarding the registration as a trademark of the signature pink color of the Hungarian airline Wizz Air. In May 2018, a Hungarian…
The Swiss Société des Produits Nestlé S.A., represented by Studio Barbero S.p.A., filed a complaint with the WIPO Center for Arbitration and Mediation regarding the disputed domain name “nespresso.kiev.ua”. The administrator of the public domain .UA sent an email to…
In April 2020, Lyudmila Ignatenko, the wife of the deceased firefighter-liquidator of the Chernobyl accident filed a lawsuit against Home Box Office, Inc. (HBO) filed a lawsuit stating that the broadcaster did not seek permission to use her name and…
On July 16, 2024, the Parliament of Ukraine adopted in the second reading and as a whole the draft law on the parallel import of medicinal products. The purpose of the draft law is to increase the availability of medicines…
On July 13, 2024, the President of Turkmenistan, Serdar Berdimuhamedov, signed the law “On Accession to the Protocol on the Protection of Industrial Designs to the Eurasian Patent Convention of September 9, 1994.” The protocol on the protection of industrial…
From July 1, 2024, the National Institute of Intellectual Property of Kazakhstan changed the prices for services related to the registration of trademarks, service marks, geographical indications, and names of places of origin of goods. The amount of the fee…
The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine recognized the actions of METR-PLUS LLC as a violation of the legislation on protection against unfair competition. The committee considered the case on the basis of the application of the companies “LEGO JURIS A/S”, “LEGO…
On June 18, 2024, the personal composition of the Appeals Chamber of the IP Office approved by the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine was approved. The Appeals Chamber included 40 specialists in the field of intellectual property law. After that,…
Azerbaijan continued to implement measures by the Intellectual Property Agency in the field of ensuring transparency and accessibility. After the information on patents on invention and utility models became publicly available via the Register of Industrial Property Objects (“Open Register”),…