On June 30, 2020, orders of the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine No. 281 and No. 282 of June 9, 2020, aimed at improving the protection of intellectual property rights at customs, entered into force. The need to develop relevant…
Geropharm pharmaceutical company (Saint Petersburg) filed a lawsuit with the Intellectual Property Rights Court regarding the cancellation of the extension of one of the Novo Nordisk’s invention. Danish pharmaceutical manufacturer Novo Nordisk A/S has filed an application for registration of…
Luxembourg company Soremartec S.A. (Ferrero group) has achieved recognition of the Raffaello trademark as well-known in Russia. Soremartec S.A. filed an application for recognition of TM Raffaello as well-known in relation to goods of the 30th class of ICGS (candies)…
The Government of Belarus, by a resolution of June 19, 2020, amended the procedure for providing legal protection to appellations of origin – the administrative procedures for registration and issuance of a certificate for the right to use an appellation…
The Chamber of Patent Disputes upheld the previous decision of Rospatent and refused to register the combined trademark ‘Fix Price Coffee’ in the name of entrepreneur Semyon Lomakin. Lomakin filed an application for trademark registration regarding goods and services in…
On June 16, 2020, the parliament of Ukraine adopted a law establishing the National Intellectual Property Authority. Thus, the 4-year period of institutional reform of the sphere of intellectual property in Ukraine ends. The creation of the National IP Agency…
The Moscow Arbitration Court completely refused the former Domino’s Pizza franchisee Eugeniy Khoronko in a lawsuit against a network of pizzerias for compensation of 27 million rubles ($420 thousand). In addition, the court decided to satisfy Domino’s counterclaim against the…
On June 2, 2020, the Ukrainian parliament adopted a draft law amending certain laws of Ukraine regarding the elimination of artificial bureaucratic barriers and corruption factors in the healthcare sector. According to the new rules, will not be recognized as…
The State Duma of Russia approved amendments to the law “On Information, Information Technologies and the Protection of Information”. Since October 1, 2020, the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor) will be able to…
On May 13, 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Communities published a lawsuit from Rot Front confectionery company (Moscow, Russia) to Roshen confectionery corporation (Kyiv, Ukraine) demanding the cancellation of registration of a figurative trademark for candies ‘Chamomile’…