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’…
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…