On March 3, 2021, the Parliament of Kazakhstan adopted the law “On Ratification of the Agreement on trademarks, service marks and appellations of origin of goods of the Eurasian Economic Union”. The agreement creates a new one-stop-shop registration system for…
Rospatent registered the first geographical indication in Russia in relation to wine products – “Kuban”. At the end of 2020, three associations filed an application for registration of the geographical indication “Kuban”: “The self-regulatory organization “Winegrowers and Winemakers”, “Winemaking Union”,…
As part of the decree of the President of Uzbekistan “On measures to improve the system of protection of intellectual property rights objects”, a number of innovations are being introduced into the procedures for registering IP objects from April 1,…
On February 25, 2021, the Supreme Court of Ukraine upheld the decision to satisfy the claims of McDonald’s in a dispute with the Ukrainian holding Ascania-Trading on the complete cancellation of registrations of the Mc’Corn and MacCorn trademarks. In 2018,…
Since March 1, 2021, a new information resource has been posted in the open access on the web portal of the Eurasian Patent Organization – the Pharmaceutical Register, containing information on Eurasian patents related to pharmacologically active substances that have…
On March 17, 2021, the Protocol on the Protection of Industrial Designs to the Eurasian Patent Convention, adopted in 2019, entered into force. Five countries participating in the Eurasian Patent Organization have already completed all the necessary procedures for the…
Rospatent published a report on the results of its activities in 2020. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic and the downturn in the economy, the intellectual property market is growing in Russia. At the end of 2020, Rospatent received a 7.3% increase…
The Federal Service for Intellectual Property (Rospatent) in February 2021 accepted the first application for an invention in the form of a three-dimensional model. The possibility to attach to applications for registration three-dimensional models of the claimed objects of intellectual…
From March 1, 2021, the import of unmarked alcoholic (except beer) and tobacco products into the territory of Uzbekistan is prohibited. Such norms were previously approved by the decree of the Cabinet of Ministers “On the introduction of a system…
The amount of compensation to the trademark owner for the sale of counterfeit goods should not be calculated solely on the basis of the cost of the license agreement or the norms of the Civil Code – the Supreme Court…