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New official fees in Ukraine |
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 From May 16, 2008, new Official Fees will enter in force caused by joining of Ukraine to WTO. A united scale of Official Fees (both for domestic and foreign applicants) is introduced and a number of fees is amended in comparison with previous ones. |
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Firm's news |
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June 18-21, 2008, Killarney |
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 Irina Korzun, Partner, Viacheslav Rybchak, Trademark attorney, both of Gorodissky & Partners (Moscow), and Ruslan Sitdikov, Lawyer, Gorodissky & Partners (Kazan), attended the 27th ECTA Annual Meeting. Many topical IP issues including Global brands, Counterfeiting and Internet issues were in the focus of discussion. Over 700 members and guests attended the Conference.
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May 27, 2008, Moscow |
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Ludmila Serova, Partner, Trademark Attorney, ”Gorodissky & Partners” (Moscow), held another Trademark seminar within the Educational program for corporate counsels organized by “DevelopMENT” company. The Seminar gathered 12 attendees actively participated in the following discussion.
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May 6-7 2008, Ljubljana (Slovenia) |
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Dr. Anatoly Pavlovsky, Senior Partner, Gorodissky & Partners (Moscow) attended the European Patent Forum 2008. Patenting of inventions on alternative energy (solar, nuclear, bio, etc) and ecology were discussed at the event. EPO officers, professors from leading world universities and senior managers of major industrial companies were among the speakers.
The Forum gathered over 220 international delegates.
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IP Legislation News |
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May 2008
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In 2007 the Russian Customs service revealed more than 10 million pieces of counterfeit products – three times more than in 2006 |
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According to the information of the Federal Customs Service in 2007 more than 10 million items of counterfeit products have been detected, it exceed three times the figure of 2006.
1,5 thousand cases about administrative violations were opened, major part of them under the stipulations of article “Illegal Use of Trademark” (in 2004 – 154 cases, in 2005 – 350 cases, in 2006 – 1,6 thousand cases). Main goods detained under the cases about illegal use of trademark appeared to be foodstuffs, confectioneries, sport garments and shoes, perfumery, as well as CD and DVD.
Experts maintain that during the last 10 years the level of intellectual property protection in Russia substantially increased.
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May 2008
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Further Improvement of Russian IP Law |
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The Russian copyright law has been amended several times already beginning form 1993. This time, a bill has been introduced in May 2008 to the State Duma aimed at improving protection of intellectual property. In the first place, the amendments are aimed at further bringing the law into conformity with the TRIPS agreement.
In particular, the Bill confimrs allegiance of the Russian Law to the Bern Convention and sets forth that the copyright owners retain the right for remuneration in case of free use of the copyrighted work.
The amendments also rule out the possibility of going unpanished for the persons who provide techniques designed to remove techical means of protection of copyright.
The Bill makes the law conform to TRIPS in that it limits compulsory liensing in respect of semiconductor technologies.
Also, which is even more important, the Bill does not allow the Patent Office to refuse the trademark registration on the basis of an earlier domain name. As is noted in the explanatory note "TRIPS does not attribute the domain name to the protected titles and therefore there are no grounds to cite it against the trademark".
The Civil Code is also being brought in line with the TRIPS Agreement with regard to protection of designations which, though do not include the name of a geographical place, identify nevertheless the object as proceeding from the given territory. According to the Bill the requirements in this case must be the same as for the appellations of origin. |
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Russian market news |
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January 2008
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German investors are positive about the tendencies in the investment climate in Russia |
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According to the survey conducted by BDI (Germany) among large German investors, about 60% of respondents plan to invest into Russia over Euro1 million totally, in 2008. “German businessmen, who work in Russia, are very optimistic, - Mr. Manhold, the Chairman of the Committee for German Industry, said. - The business climate in this country is improving significantly, and companies expect this tendency to continue.”
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