On March 3, 2021, the Parliament of Kazakhstan adopted the law “On Ratification of the Agreement on trademarks, service marks and appellations of origin of goods of the Eurasian Economic Union”. The agreement creates a new one-stop-shop registration system for…
Rospatent registered the first geographical indication in Russia in relation to wine products – “Kuban”. At the end of 2020, three associations filed an application for registration of the geographical indication “Kuban”: “The self-regulatory organization “Winegrowers and Winemakers”, “Winemaking Union”,…
As part of the decree of the President of Uzbekistan “On measures to improve the system of protection of intellectual property rights objects”, a number of innovations are being introduced into the procedures for registering IP objects from April 1,…
On March 24, 2021, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law establishing responsibility for selling gadgets without Russian software pre-installed. The punishment for officials will be from 30 to 50 thousand rubles ($400-680), for companies – from 50 to 200…
On February 25, 2021, the Supreme Court of Ukraine upheld the decision to satisfy the claims of McDonald’s in a dispute with the Ukrainian holding Ascania-Trading on the complete cancellation of registrations of the Mc’Corn and MacCorn trademarks. In 2018,…
Since March 1, 2021, a new information resource has been posted in the open access on the web portal of the Eurasian Patent Organization – the Pharmaceutical Register, containing information on Eurasian patents related to pharmacologically active substances that have…
On March 17, 2021, the Protocol on the Protection of Industrial Designs to the Eurasian Patent Convention, adopted in 2019, entered into force. Five countries participating in the Eurasian Patent Organization have already completed all the necessary procedures for the…
Rospatent published a report on the results of its activities in 2020. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic and the downturn in the economy, the intellectual property market is growing in Russia. At the end of 2020, Rospatent received a 7.3% increase…
On February 26, 2021, Rospatent granted legal protection on the territory of Russia to the first foreign geographical indication – “Korean Red Ginseng” (고려 홍삼). The term “geographical indication” was introduced into Russian legislation in July 2020. In October 2020,…
The Federal Service for Intellectual Property (Rospatent) in February 2021 accepted the first application for an invention in the form of a three-dimensional model. The possibility to attach to applications for registration three-dimensional models of the claimed objects of intellectual…