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Intellectual Property and Technology Practice provides comprehensive legal support for projects on protection of copyrights and patents, trademarks and other means of individualisation, know-how and other confidential information. The practice's competences include IP disputes resolution, IP compliance and due diligence of IP assets, legal support of transactions with IP assets, personal data projects, as well as protection of honour, dignity and business reputation.

The practice team has a deep understanding of the specifics of working with IP assets due to active interaction with regulatory authorities, including Rospatent, the Ministry of Digital Development, Roskomnadzor, FAS Russia, etc., participation in profile working groups and expert communities.

The advantage of the team is its deep expertise not only in intellectual property law, but also in digital technologies, including Digital Health, EdTech, Legal Tech, Fintech and others. We provide support to companies in implementing innovative projects, import substitution projects in the IT industry and others.

The practice clients include digital ecosystems, telecommunications, IT, pharmaceutical, insurance, logistics, industrial companies, banks, medical device manufacturers, telemedicine services, financial organizations, companies in the fashion industry, entertainment industry, and others.

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IP disputes
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  • Pre-trial settlement of IP disputes

  • Trade mark protection disputes, including domain disputes

  • Copyright disputes

  • Patent disputes

  • Software rights disputes

  • Disputes arising out of agreements (alienation, licence, commercial concession, technical maintenance, agreements on creation of intellectual property)

  • Disputes regarding unfair competition



IP consulting
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  • Preparation of legal opinions and memoranda on IP issues

  • Drawing up agreements related to creation and disposition of rights to IP assets

  • Development of strategies for protection and commercialisation of IP assets

  • Development of an IP assets regime within an organisation, preparation of a document set for minimising the risks of IP asset use by employees

  • IP compliance and elimination of identified risks on IP asset protection issues

  • Due diligence of IP assets

  • Comprehensive business support on IP issues

Registration of IP assets
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  • Assessment of IP asset registration prospects (performance of a preliminary trade mark search, a patent search)

  • Registration of trade marks

  • Registration of inventions, utility models, industrial designs

  • Comprehensive support for registration procedures in foreign countries

  • Registration of software with Rospatent

  • Registration of software in the Russian Software Register

Products

We advised:

Zentiva Group A.S.

in relation to the rights to administer the domain “aflubin.ru” after winning the Aflubin trade mark case at first instance and on appeal

A Major Fur Manufacturer

in a RUB 400 mln trade mark protection case. The result was complete dismissal of the claim, which became a practice-forming position in corporate conflicts and attempts at misuse by one of the parties. The position was adopted by the courts, applied in other similar cases with a total value of RUB 1.5 bln and recognised by the Intellectual Property Rights Court

A Major IT Company

in a case against its former employee who brought infringement claim to a work - software source code, including proving that the code was a proprietary work and therefore the rights to it belonged to the employer

An International Manufacturer of Household Chemicals

on development of a contractual scheme for alienation of an international trade mark, including development of non-standard contractual arrangements, analysis of foreign material, drafting of an agreement in English for implementing the developed strategy and advising on interaction with patent authorities in different countries

A Manufacturer of Technical Equipment

in a dispute with a competitor that made illegal use of a trade mark in offers to sell goods on its website and in redirection including recovering full compensation

The Rightholder of the 'Netmonet’ Trade Mark,

the electronic tip and bill payment service, in a case with the administrator of the netmonet.ru domain name, the result being re-registration of this domain name to the client

Team

Anastasia Dudko
Counsel, attorney — Intellectual Property, Dispute Resolution

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