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The Central Bank of Russia did another “shot” at the rights of cryptocurrency holders on July 19, 2021. The Bank issued an Information Letter No. IN-06-59 / 52 “On certain types of financial instruments” on this day. Now Russian and foreign issuers, if their securities payments depend on: digital currency rates; prices for foreign digital...

Personal data (PD) protection is becoming the main topic of the recent days, so the Russian legislation in this sphere changes rapidly. The article represents an overview of updates on personal data regulation for the 3rd quarter of 2020. ATTEMPTS TO COUNTER THE CONSUMERS’ PERSONAL DATA COLLECTION Russian Agency for Health and Consumer Rights has...

Nowadays the sphere of healthcare is becoming one of the mostly discussed because of a mass spread of the coronavirus pandemic (also COVID-19). Confirmed cases of COVID-19 around the world have passed more than a 2.4 million. As the disease is continuing to surge the World Health Organization is warning that there are no specific...

At the end of June a mechanism providing for temporary protection of industrial designs was introduced into the Russian legal system. In short it requires somebody who uses an industrial design during the period of its patenting to pay compensation to the future holder of the patent.  Previously, this type of protection was available only...

Under the Federal Law “On drugs circulation” (Law), information on state registration of drugs in Russia shall be publicly available. Pursuant to Art. 37(1) of the Law, MoH-s obligation is to disclose information regarding all filed applications for drug registration on its official website. For a long period, MoH used to turn a blind eye to...

Recently Rospatent officially launched a service for fast-track registration of trademarks and patents. The fast-track option has become available for those applicants who ordered and payed an official trademark search report in Rospatent in respect of all 45 Nice classes. The official fee for this service is EUR 1 500 (RUR 94 400), the term is 10...

To see the infographic in English, click here. TOP-10 IP disputes in 2017 КАТЕГОРИЯ: Недобросовестная конкуренция ДЕЛО: БФ Фонд Подари жизнь vs. НО БФ Подари жизнь РЕКВИЗИТЫ: Определение Верховного суда от 11.07.2017 № 53-КГ17-12 ОПИСАНИЕ: Наименование некоммерческой организации является неимущественным гражданским правом (хотя и не относится к IP объектам). Поэтому действия оппонента по регистрац

In its meeting of April 27, 2017, the Russian Government has approved the Bill “On approval of the Protocol amending the Agreement on trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights” proposed by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Russian Ministry of economic development and trade, and endorsed its further introduction to the State Duma1....

In August 2016 Rospatent has initiated a public discussion on provisional applications and licensing of unregistered patents in Russia. In Rospatent’s view, provisional applications are designed to establish an effective 12-month term, within which applicants may file their non-provisional (“ordinary”) applications. In order to register a provisional application an applicant should disclose a...