The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine imposed a fine of UAH 10.191 million ($364 thousand) on Pharmaceutical Company Zdorovye LLC for packaging of its drug Citramon-Zdorovye very similar to that used by the competitor Darnitsa Pharmaceutical Firm CJSC for the drug…
The Sverdlovsk Department of the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) of Russia opened a case against the Ekaterinburg developer Brusnika. In its YouTube commercial, the Service found signs of five violations, including obscenity. The commercial shows a girl moving out of…
The Cabinet of Ministers of Uzbekistan adopted a resolution “On the introduction of a system of mandatory digital labeling of certain types of goods”, which approved the list of products subject to mandatory digital labeling by means of identification for…
The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine imposed a fine of UAH 493 thousand ($17 thousand) and ordered to stop the use without permission the intellectual property Dnipro Alcohol and Non-Alcohol Plant LLC for using packaging similar to that used by their…
Since the beginning of 2020, the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor) has already blocked more than 10 thousand sites infringes copyrights and their so-called mirrors (copies), while over the entire last year –…
The Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine has approved a list of countries whose citizens can participate in a pilot project for the introduction and implementation of electronic residence in Ukraine. These countries are: Bangladesh; Belarus; Hungary; Germany; Israel; India;…
The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine decided to impose fines on five producers of “sweet cream butter” for misleading consumers. According to the state standard, “butter” must contain exclusively milk fat. Any other impurities – such as vegetable fat – immediately…
At the request of the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) of Russia, the pharmacological company Ipsen entered into a contract with the distributor Biotec LLC for the supply of its drugs for sale in Russia. In 2019, Biotech approached Ipsen several…
The Supreme Court of Ukraine in the case of Holy Land LLC v. Individual entrepreneur Savisko V.G. provided an interpretation of the possibility of using a trademark to sell goods online without the consent of the right holder of the…
The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) of Russia has issued orders to stop the distribution of inappropriate advertising to Yandex and Google. Also, companies face administrative fines ranging from 100 to 500 thousand rubles ($1.3-6.4 thousand). In March 2020, an advertisement…