The Russian pasta producer Makfa LLC filed claims against the VakMa Factory LLC and the individual entrepreneur Eldar Aslanov who produced and sold macaroni products under the VAKMA trademark. The plaintiff considered that this mark is confusingly similar to it…
Russian Intellectual Property Rights Court ordered the Federal Service for Intellectual Property (Rospatent) to extend the period of patent protection for the drug Sofosbuvir, which is used to treat viral hepatitis C, for another three years, until March 2031. The…
The Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation published a decision in which it explained the procedure for recovery damages for trademark infringement and indicated in which cases the court has the right to reduce it. In 2019, Masternet Corporation JSC…
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 31, 2020, the Russian President signed a draft law on experimental legal regimes for digital innovation. The document gives the government the right for a period of up to three years and on a certain territory to withdraw…
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…