On February 3, 2021, the Cabinet of Ministers approved the Procedure for the formation of a list of unregistered medicines (by international non-proprietary names) that can be imported into the territory of Ukraine. The order was adopted after the amendments…
The Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia (FAS) fined LLC AKTIV (formerly SIBUR-AKTIV) for unfair competition. The company unlawfully used the well-known name that belongs to the largest petrochemical company in Russia, SIBUR Holding. SIBUR Holding itself complained about the company.…
The fact that the author has provided his unpublished works to a third party does not automatically mean that the author has committed actions aimed at disposing of copyright to this work since the very fact of opening access to…
At the end of 2020, China retained the status of Ukraine’s largest trading partner, which it first received in 2019. The total trade turnover of Ukraine in 2020 amounted to $103.4 billion, decreasing by 6.4% compared to 2019. Imports in…
On January 5, 2021, the government of Ukraine approved a draft law on withdrawal from the agreement within the framework of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) on cooperation in the field of the legal protection of intellectual property and…
From January 1, 2021, in connection with the increase in the size of the minimum level of subsistence for able-bodied persons, the amount of the court fee in Ukraine also increased. So, rates increased by 8% – the minimum wage…
On December 29, 2020, the President of Belarus signed the Decree “On the traceability of goods”, which is aimed at implementing an agreement on the mechanism of traceability of goods imported into the customs territory of the Eurasian Economic Union.…
The Economic Court of Kyiv canceled all claims of the Antimonopoly Committee against the manufacturer of the antiviral drug Proteflazid by Research and Production Company Ecopharm. In July 2020, the Antimonopoly Committee imposed a fine of UAH 3.2 million ($114…
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine adopted a decree dated December 23, 2020, which amended a number of other government decrees in the field of intellectual property. So, from the decree on state registration of copyright and contracts that relate…
On December 18, 2020, the Russian Intellectual Property Court fully satisfied the claim of Mojang Synergies AB and Microsoft against the Russian company City LLC to annul the registration of the Minecraft trademark. The Swedish company Mojang released Minecraft in…