The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS), at the request of Kaspersky Lab, has completed its consideration of the case against Apple Inc. and concluded that the American company was abusing its dominant market position. The FAS Russia Commission found that Apple…
On July 29, 2020, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine adopted a resolution On some matters of the functioning of authorized economic operators, developed by the Ministry of Finance together with the customs service, which settled all the formalities for…
The State Fiscal Service of Ukraine stopped the activities of an underground workshop for the mass production of counterfeit alcohol in the Kyiv region. The attackers carried out the production using the appropriate equipment, by mixing alcohol and aromatic additives.…
The McDonald’s office in Ukraine won litigation with the Ukrainian League of Copyright and Related Rights (ULCRR) in a dispute over payment for the public use of phonograms. ULCRR, as the only accredited collective management organization (CMO), which is authorized…
On July 24, 2020, the Ministry of Economic Development, Trade and Agriculture published Order No. 1329, which approved 72 forms of international certificates for supporting products of animal origin during their import (shipment) to the customs territory of Ukraine and…
On July 21, 2020, the Ukrainian parliament adopted a law on amending some legislative acts to strengthen the protection of rights to trademarks and industrial designs and to combat patent trolling. The document improves the process of registration and protection…
On July 21, 2020, the parliament of Ukraine adopted the law “On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts Concerning the Reform of Patent Law”. The document shortens the list of objects that can receive patent protection and introduces a post-grant opposition…
The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine provided Ukrainian companies LLC Atlantis, PMP Lozmen, LLC Ukrainian Distribution Company, LLC SP Aquavintex with mandatory recommendations to consider stopping the use designations on labels, counter labels and in advertising that could mislead consumers, about…
The State Duma of Russia adopted a law amending the Civil Code, according to which Rospatent will be able to issue protecting documents in electronic form and accept applications containing three-dimensional models of the claimed intellectual property rights object. After…
The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine fined Yuria-Pharm LLC 528 thousand hryvnias ($20 thousand) for disseminating false information about its ability to fight coronaviruses in advertising its medicine ‘Dekasan’. The manufacturer assured in the commercial that the medicine acts on all…