OUR NEWS

23-27.04.2012 // EKATERINBURG, PERM

The Ekaterinburg office of Gorodissky & Partners held the «Intellectual Property Week» together with the local authorities of Ekaterinburg City and Perm Territory, as well as the Ural Federal University. IP Seminars in Ekaterinburg and Perm, roundtables, legal advices, book reviews and other events focused on certain aspects of intellectual property took place during the Week. The speakers were Vladimir Meshcheryakov, Legal Adviser; Alexander Vasilets, Partner, Russian Patent Attorney; Victor Gorshkov, Partner, Russian and Eurasian Patent Attorney; Sergey Medvedev, LL.M, Lawyer; Veniamin Kazakov, Lawyer (all of Gorodissky & Partners, Moscow); Sergey Egorov, Partner, Office Director, Russian Trademark Attorney; Elena Baikovskaya, Russian Patent Attorney; Ekaterina Solonitsyna, Lawyer (all of Gorodissky & Partners, Ekaterinburg). The events attracted more than 200 representatives of the regional business, IP specialists, mass-media.

26.04.2012 // WEBINAR

Webinar “Trademark use & non-use: recent developments of the Russian legislation” focused on recent amendments in the Russian trademark legislation was held by Gorodissky & Partners (Moscow). Main topics included the trademark use requirements, non-use issues and the changed procedure of the non-use cancellation were highlighted by Vladimir Trey, Partner, Trademark Attorney, and Evgeny Alexandrov, Ph.D., Chief Lawyer, Trademark Attorney (both of Gorodissky & Partners, Moscow). The webinar’s target audience included trademark attorneys, lawyers and business people interested in the Russian market.

15-21.04.2012 // MELBOURNE

Valery Medvedev, Managing Partner, Russian and Eurasian Patent Attorney (Gorodissky & Partners, Moscow), attended FICPI Ex-CO and Congress.  He and other delegates from Russia signed with President of FICPI a Memorandum of undertaking establishing Russian Group of FICPI which was officially proclaimed at the closing Ex-Co session.
About 300 delegates from 52 countries attended the Congress.

18-20.04.2012 // MOSCOW

The 10th annual seminar “IP Protection Strategies for Company Successful Development” was held in Gorodissky & Partners Moscow office. Leading IP attorneys and lawyers from the Moscow, St.Petersburg, Ekaterinburg and Kazan offices of the firm spoke on effective legal protection and management of intellectual property in Russia and abroad, and shared with the most interesting and successful cases of their practice, particularly relating to IP protection in IT area. A special Workshop on IP due-diligence and accounting of a company IP assets attracted much interest.
The seminar was well-attended by over 40 top managers, attorneys, lawyers, marketing and brand-managers, economists of industrial companies, R&D centers, universities and other  institutions from many Russian cities. Some attendees participate in the Gorodissky seminar year by year, being attracted by its actual and balanced program, vivid high-level presentations, lively discussions and practical orientation.

17-18.04.2012 // MOSCOW

Dr.Tatiana Pogrebinskaya, Trademark Attorney, Counsel, and Dr.Natalia Radchenko, Trademark Attorney, Counsel (both of Gorodissky & Partners, Moscow), gave presentations on “EAC-mark and trademark” and “Correlation of rights on means of individualization and collision thereof” at the V International Forum “Intellectual Property – XXI century” held by the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry at Expocenter exhibition complex.

17.04.2012 // EKATERINBURG

Sergey Egorov, Partner, Patent Attorney, Director, Gorodissky & Partners (Ekaterinburg) gave a presentation at the conference “Fake goods on the market. Theory, practice, solutions” organized by the Ministry of Trade, Food and Services of Sverdlovsk region. Over 100 representatives mostly from trade, service, food stuff and agriculture areas attended the conference.

16.04.2012 // MOSCOW

Sergey Medvedev, LLM, Lawyer, and Dr.Natalia Radchenko, Counsel (both of Gorodissky & Partners, Moscow), were the speakers at the regular  seminar held by M-Logos Law Institute on topic issues of protection and turnover of IP rights in Russia. Sergey Medvedev delivered a lecture “IP security: legal and practical issues” which concerned the peculiarities of legal regulations and practical aspects of IP security deals conclusion. Dr.Natalia Radchenko spoke on “Correlation of rights on means of individualization and collision thereof” and highlighted the peculiarities of appearance and action of exclusive rights on trademark, company name and commercial designation, grounds for collision of rights and practice of dispute resolution. The seminar gathered about 30 representatives of business, such as advertising, IT and legal practice.

06.04.2012 // MOSCOW (EXPOCENTRE Central Exhibition Complex)

Tatiana Pogrebinskaya, PhD, Trademark Attorney, Counsel (Gorodissky & Partners, Moscow) took part in the first session of the Organizing Committee of the IV International IP Forum Expopriority’2012. Proceedings of the III International IP Forum Exporpiority’2011 were summarized, crucial issues of Forum development in 2012, a draft Program of the International IP Congress within the Forum, including a work schedule of the Section “Importance of exhibition priority and IP protection issues in exhibition business”, were discussed at the session.
The Forum will be held on November 28-30, 2012 (Moscow, Expocentre Central Exhibition Complex).

30.03-03.04.2012 // AUCKLAND (New Zealand)

Sergey Dorofeev, Partner, Patent attorney, Gorodissky & Partners, Moscow took part in the LES International Conference help by Regional Group LES Australia/New Zealand. The Meeting gathered about 300 delegates representing state institutions, universities, financial structures as well as law firms and business companies, mostly from the US and Australia.

29.03.2012 // NIZHNY NOVGOROD REGION

Yury Kuznetsov, Patent Attorney, Partner and Vladimir Meshcheryakov, Counsel, “Gorodissky and Partners” (Moscow), took part in the conference “The particulars of the intellectual property protection in Russia and abroad”, organized by Nizhny Novgorod Region Ministry of the Industry and Innovations, Russian Federal Nuclear Center, All-Russia Research Institute of Experimental Physics,  Tekhnopark Sarov and “Gorodissky and Partners”. Yury Kuznetsov gave the presentation «Registration of patent rights in the Russian Federation. The legislation and practice in the field of inventions and utility models protection in Russia and abroad», Vladimir Meshcheryakov highlighted the topic “Status and perspectives of the employee’s and secure inventions protection”.
About 70 specialists mainly from a nuclear sector participated in the conference.

28.03.2012 // MOSCOW

Sergey Medvedev, LLM, Lawyer (Gorodissky & Partners, Moscow), gave a presentation “Legal protection of brand as IP subject-matter” at the Higher school of marketing and business development within the professional upgrading program “Brand management”. Sergey highlighted both general legal and particular practical issues of IP protection of trademarks and commercial designations in Russia. Over 30 representatives of marketing and advertising business attended the lecture.

15-16.03.2012 // EKATERINBURG

Albert Ibragimov, Trademark attorney, Eurasian Patent Attorney, Director (Gorodissky & Partners, Kazan), participated in the 1st Russian Investment Forum “Small innovative business of the Urals region – Rus-Inno-Busines-2012” and made reports on IP management at universities and in companies at the Seminar “Methodology and practice of development of IP strategy of universities and R & D centers in the countries of transitional economy” and at the Panel section “Peculiarities of establishing and developing small innovative business in the Urals region”. Mr.Ibragimov also had talks with Mr.Mikhail Schwanter, Director, WIPO Department on relations with European and Asian countries of transitional economy, on joint efforts on realization of IP management standards in the Russian universities.

14-16.03.2012 // MUNICH

Maria Naryshkova, Senior Expert (Gorodissky & Partners, Moscow) attended the 22nd Forum on Biotech & Pharmaceutical Patenting in Munich held by C5 Group. Main topics considered at the Forum concerned recent developments in protection of life science inventions in Europe and the US. IP lawyers and attorneys of biotech and pharmaceutical and IP law companies from many countries attended the Forum.

14.03.2012 // KAZAN

Albert Ibragimov, Trademark attorney, Eurasian Patent Attorney, Director (Gorodissky & Partners, Kazan), held consultations with a representative of the World Bank Mr. Alen Gallosh, IP consultant, and Mr. Peter Lindholm, Consultant, Department for private and financial sector development of Europe and Central Asia, related to working out the long term target program “IP market development in Tatarstan Republic for 2012-2020”. The Program is aimed on creating conditions for free turnover of the results of IP activity both scientific and industrial entities.

28.02.2012 // MOSCOW

Sergey Medvedev, LLM, Lawyer (Gorodissky & Partners, Moscow) was a speaker at the Seminar “IP Law enforcement practice” held by M-Logos Law Institute on topic issues of protection and turnover of IP rights in Russia. The lecture concerned both general legal and particular practical issues of drafting and registration of different types of agreements on intellectual property. The lecture gathered about 30 representatives of business and legal circles.

1st Webinar of Gorodissky & Partners

Webinar “Efficient enforcement of patent and trademark rights in Russia” was held by Gorodissky & Partners on February 22, 2012. Vladimir Biriulin, Partner, Chief Lawyer, was the speaker and gave a comprehensive overview of opportunities on enforcement of IP rights given by the current Russian IP laws and the gist of the upcoming amendments thereto to foreign right holders and investors. Each topic of the presentation was illustrated by examples from the Court practice.

16.02.2012 // MOSCOW

Vladimir Biriulin, Partner, Gorodissky & Partners (Moscow), gave a presentation ‘Customs, counterfeiting and parallel import in Russia. Current situation’ at the Seminar held by JETRO (Japan) for the Japanese businessmen working in Russia. The seminar gathered about 30 representatives of the Japanese companies.

16.02.2012 // MOSCOW

Dr.Evgeny Aleksandrov, Chief Lawyer, and Sergey Medvedev, LLM, Lawyer (both of Gorodissky & Partners, Moscow), attended Business forum “Counterfeiting. Actual methods of legal protection” held by B2B department of “SLON” Group together with Russian Lawyers Association and “Nemiroff”. Over 20 representatives of law firms, law enforcement bodies and business attended the Forum. Ways of fighting against counterfeiting extension, within the Customs Union in particular, and issues relating to means of protection of original products from fake goods were in the focus of discussion.

IP LEGISLATION NEWS
03 apr 2012

Bill No. 47538-6 “On amendments to the part I, II, III and IV of the Russian Civil Code...” was registered and published at the Web-site of the State Duma

April 3, 2012 -  bill No. 47538-6 “On amendments to the part I, II, III and IV of the Russian Civil Code, and to individual acts of legislation of the Russian Federation” submitted by the Russian President to the State Duma for consideration on April 2, was registered and published at the Web-site of the State Duma. On April 9, the State Duma Council resolved to send the bill to committees, the commission, and factions in the State Duma to prepare proposals and comments. The first reading of the bill is scheduled for the end of April.
See our announcement dated February 07, 2012 on some amendments to Part IV of the Russian Civil Code.

EVENTS

8-th International Gorodissky IP Seminar

“Gorodissky & Partners” will host 8th International Annual Seminar «Obtaining and enforcement of intellectual property rights in Russia» in Moscow on September 5-7, 2012 

 

Gorodissky in Forthcoming IP events 2012

Patent/trademark attorney and lawyers of Gorodissky & Partners will attend:
- LES Pan-European Conference, Rome, June 10-12, 2012
- ECTA Annual Conference, Palermo, June 20-23, 2012
Please contact us in case you are interested to fix meetings with our specialists.

 

IP Seminar in St.Petersburg

On May 30, 2012, business newspaper Vedomosti and Gorodissky & Partners will hold a seminar “IP Protection”. Viktor Stankovsky, Partner, Russian and Eurasian Patent Attorney (Gorodissky & Partners, St.Petersburg), Counsels Dr.Natalia Radchenko, Patent Attorney, and Dr.Tatiana Pogrebinskaya, Trademark Attorney (both of Gorodissky & Partners, Moscow) will be among the speakers.

 

Our new partners

Meet new partners of Gorodissky & Partners:
Irina Zhigalova, Trademark Attorney, Director, Gorodissky & Partners (N.Novgorod), and
Alexander Nesterov, Trademark Attorney, Gorodissky & Partners (Moscow)
Our sincere congratulations!

 

WTR-1000

Law firm “Gorodissky & Partners” has been listed among the best IP law firms in Russia in trademark legal services according to the authoritative “World Trademark Review” Magazine in their annual guidelines “WTR” 1000 - The World’s Leading Trademark Professionals“. Vladimir Biriulin, Partner, has been listed among the best lawyers in both enforcement and prosecution areas, alongside with Aleksey Kratiuk, Partner, and Vladimir Trey, Partner, who were mentioned as notable specialists in trademark prosecution.

 

Russia’s Best IP Lawyers

Valery Medvedev, Managing Partner, Partners – Sergey Dorofeev, Yury Kuznetsov, Irina Korzun, Irina Rogal, Ludmila Serova, Aleksey Kratyuk, Vladimir Trey (all of Gorodissky & Partners, Moscow), and Viktor Stankovsky, Partner (Gorodissky & Partners, St.Petersburg) are included in the 2011 edition of Russia’s Best Lawyers.
Viktor Stankovsky has been also named the Best Intellectual Property Lawyer of the Year in Saint Petersburg.
www.BestLawyers.com and Russian business newspaper «Vedomosti» of June 16, 2011

 

We are recommended

Valery Medvedev, Managing Partner, Russian and Eurasian patent attorney, Dr.Natalia Radchenko, Counsel, Trademark attorney, and Dr.Valery Djermakyan, Counsel (all of Gorodissky & Partners, Moscow), are again featured in “Legal Experts/EMEA 2012” as being highly recommended specialists in intellectual property in Russia.

 

Court on Intellectual Rights (Patent Court) in Russia

On November 29, 2011 the Counsel of the Federation following the State Duma (Parliament) approved the Bills on establishing a Court on Intellectual Rights (Patent Court) within a system of Arbitration (Commercial) courts in Russia.

 

PRESS-DOSSIER

Hugo Boss declared war on its Russian clones

“There is a lot of similar cases”, - considers Vladimir Biryulin, Chief of Gorodissky & Partners Legal Department. – “Maximum reimbursement that could be adjudicated amounts to 5 million rubles (about 170 000 dollars). That’s without recovery of damages. And if damages are recovered sums grow significantly. Trademark owners win frequently, but each case requires accurate evidences by the parties.”
// 09.04.2012, Izvestia

 

No Consensus on Yemelya

“Trademarks are often registered in several classes for a probable future use”, - says Victor Stankovsky, Director of St.-Petersburg Office of Gorodissky & Partners. The Consensus company was declared bankrupt by Moscow Arbitrage in July 2011. Later in August the company assigned “Yemelya” trademark to “Region Ltd.”
// 23.03.2012, Vedomosti - St.Petersburg № 52 (3066)

 

The Customs recovered counterfeited Hummer toys

Disney Enterprises, Inc. and Marvel Characters, Inc. and their representative IP law firm Gorodissky & Partners (Moscow) also filed a petition with the Customs on bringing the Russian businessman to responsibility for the illegal use of their intellectual property
// JustMedia, 18.01.2012

 


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