Anastasia Dudko

a fur manufacturer in recovering RUB 400 mln

in compensation for infringement of its trademark rights, including substantiation of a legal position aimed at creating a precedent regarding use of trademarks at the discretion of the rightholder with the claimant acting in bad faith by initiating a dispute due to a corporate conflict and seeking RUB 1.5+ bn from co-defendants

a major manufacturer of pharmaceuticals operating in Russia and the CIS

in challenging a patent for a group of inventions in the Praesidium of the Intellectual Property Rights Court, including supporting of invalidation of the patent and proving that the group of inventions did not meet the criteria for protectability

an industrial equipment supplier in challenging trademarks

arising from a corporate conflict between the client and its former business partner, including preparation of a legal position on refusal to invalidate the client's trademarks and preparing a counterposition on invalidation of the opponent's trademark

a major international manufacturer of antiseptic products in a trademark protection dispute

including proving the similarity of an competitor's trademark to the client's trademark, homogeneity of the products, and preparing a legal position for applying the trademark dilution doctrine, which was successfully accepted by court

a global pharmaceutical company

in challenging a competitor's trademark, including preparing a strategy of protection against a cosmetics manufacturer imitating the client's medicine package, supporting the case at Rospatent, including substantiating homogeneity of goods pertaining to classes 03 and 05 of the International Classification of Goods and Services

a developer of an air quality monitoring system

during a software ownership audit, including analysis of the features of software with a modular structure, source code repositories, authorship of specific individuals, the company's rights to the software, as well as analysis of the terms of licences for Open-Source elements and whether they were actually complied with

the developer of the electronic tip payment service «netmonet»

in a domain dispute, including proving the defendant's bad faith in not using the domain for a long period of time and launching on it a service similar to the client's service only after the trademark and the client's service had become widely known

a manufacturer of feedstock materials for mining and metallurgical products

in assessing risks associated with launching a new production, which resulted in the preparation of a legal opinion analysing the specifics of inventions and know-how in terms of legal protection under Russian law and the laws of nine foreign jurisdictions, including European, MENA and BRICS countries, and an overview of sanctions, customs rules and restrictions

a major Russian fashion retailer

in developing a management and commercialisation roadmap for IP assets (Russian, foreign and international know-how trademarks), which involved analysing risks of possible loss of IP asset rights, tax, customs and currency control risks that were ultimately taken into account by the client when expanding its brand outside Russia: the UAE, Turkey and China