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’…
The Supreme Court of Ukraine in the case ‘Organization of Collective Management of Copyright and Related Rights and Warner Music Ukraine v. City Cafe LLC (Barbaresco Cafe, Ternopil)’, confirmed the conclusions of the courts of previous instances that receiving permission…
The Supreme Court of Ukraine, in the framework of a dispute between Chateau 2013 LLC (Odesa) and the Advertising Department of the Odesa City Council, identified signs of providing information about a product/service that would not be considered advertising and…
The Department of Cyber Police of Ukraine conducted 17 searches in three regions of the country to stop the activities of a criminal group that sold fake Apple products using a network of online stores. Fraudsters have created more than…
A Dutch court seized the Stolichnaya and Moskovskaya trademarks owned by the Russian government through the Federal Treasury Enterprise Sojuzplodoimport. Trademarks seized as part of a compensation case to former Yukos Oil Company shareholders for $57 billion, which Russia should…
The Zborovsky district court of the Ternopil region held 125 thousand hryvnias ($4.7 thousand) of compensation for copyright infringement in favor of the owner of the HaHusky digital comics character, and also obliged the infringer to transfer the rights to…
Officers of the Territorial Inspectorate of the Border Police Sighetu Marmației (Romania) detected and seized nearly 30 thousand packs of cigarettes worth more than 2 million hryvnias (75 thousand USD) near the state border with Ukraine. Cigarettes were smuggled from…
The Chamber of Patent Disputes of the Federal Institute of Industrial Property (Rospatent) upheld the complaint of the German company Berlin-Chemie AG, which owns the Мезим/Mezym trademark, and canceled the registration of the Мезитим/Mesitim trademark of the Swiss company Organic…
The Government of Belarus, by decree No. 232 of April 15, 2020, introduced bans and restrictions on the sale of non-tobacco nicotine containing products. The Decree describes the particularities of selling tobacco products, electronic smoking systems, liquids for electronic smoking…
On April 28, 2020, the Beijing Treaty on Audiovisual Performances of the World Intellectual Property Organization officially entered into force. The treaty was adopted by WIPO Member States in 2012. The Beijing Treaty improves and adapts to modern realities the…