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Gorodissky & Partners. Thought-out IP approaches.

Over 60 years’ experience in intellectual property.

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Gorodissky & Partners. Creative IP strategies.

A broad range of competent specialists.

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Intellectual property

FOREIGN OFFICES

«GORODISSKY & PARTNERS» IN NUMBERS

390+

SPECIALISTS

120+

IP ATTORNEYS

30+

LAWYERS

65+

YEARS OF SUCCESSFUL PRACTICE

OFFICES IN RUSSIA, UKRAINE, KAZAKHSTAN, KYRGYZSTAN AND UAE

10 000+

CLIENTS

Gorodissky & Partners is an international law firm with its headquarters in Moscow, 12 branch offices in Russia and one each in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and UAE remains heading top positions in every aspect of protection, disposal and enforcement of IP rights. Our main jurisdictions are Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan but thanks to the existed trustworthy network we represent clients around Eurasia.

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Quality

Our firm employs highly qualified professionals in the field of intellectual property. IP attorneys, lawyers and attorneys at law of the firm regularly earn high recognition in national and international professional rankings.
In 2020 the firm has been successfully certified for compliance with ISO 9001:2015.

Competence

Prestigious educational background and PhDs, practical knowledge and skills in various fields of science and technology, law and finance enable our IP attorneys and lawyers to propose to national and international clients most efficient solutions for protection of IP rights.

Proactivity

We closely cooperate with in-house IP teams of clients for better understanding commercial objectives facing them so that we could offer the clients IP strategies, which are suitable for their business strategies.

Reliability

More than 10,000 clients being large industrial companies and SMEs, R&D centers and innovation start-ups, universities and financial institutions lay their trust on us.
Professional liability of our IP attorneys (120+), lawyers and attorneys at law (30+) practicing in 14 offices of the firm is ensured for dozens of USD millions.

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5 November - 6 November 2026

Scientific and Practical Conference "Current Issues in the Protection and Enforcement of Rights to Appellations of Origin of Goods (AO) and Geographical Indications (GI)", Tbilisi, Georgia Valeria Nazarova, Partner, Russian Trademark Attorney (Gorodissky & Partners, St. Petersburg) will participate in the Scientific and Practical Conference "Current Issues in the Protection and Enforcement of Rights to Appellations of Origin of Goods (AO) and Geographical Indications (GI)", organized by the Assembly of Eurasian Patent Attorneys (AEPA).

9 November 2026

VI Patent Congress – 2026, Moscow Sergey Medvedev, Ph.D., LL.M., Managing partner, Russian Trademark & Design Attorney, Eurasian Design Attorney and Ilya Goryachev, Counsel (both - Gorodissky & Partners, Moscow) will take part in the VI Patent Congress organized by the Russian National Group of AIPPI.

12 November 2026

Workshop “Brand: Trademark Registration and Protection of Business Reputation”, Novosibirsk Natalia Nikolaeva, Partner, Russian Trademark Attorney, Regional Director (Gorodissky & Partners, Novosibirsk), will take part in the workshop “Brand: Trademark Registration and Protection of Business Reputation”, organized by the Novosibirsk Regional Innovation Fund and Siberian center of Federal Institute of Industrial Property (Rospatent).

16 November - 17 November 2026

GLA MENA – The Middle East Arbitration, Litigation & Disputes Summit, Dubai Sergey Medvedev, Ph.D., LL.M., Managing Partner, Russian Trademark & Design Attorney, Eurasian Design Attorney, (Gorodissky and Partners, Moscow), will take part in the session “Winning Is Not Enough: The Reality of Cross-Border Enforcement” of the GLA MENA – The Middle East Arbitration, Litigation & Disputes Summit in Dubai.

19 November 2026

IP Forum – Pravo.ru, Moscow Sergey Vasiliev, Ph.D., Russian Trademark Attorney, Head of Legal Department Vladimir Bashkirov, Partner, Russian Patent Attorney, Eurasian Design Attorney, Head of Patent Search Department and Anna Degtyareva, Senior Lawyer (all - Gorodissky & Partners, Moscow) will take part in the IP Forum by Pravo.ru portal.

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29 October 2026

A Name as an Asset: Why the Hermitage and the Tretyakov Gallery Protected Their Names, but Phystech Did Not // T-Business Secrets T-Business Secrets portal published an article by Alexey Kratyuk, Partner, Russian Trademark & Design Attorney, Eurasian Design Attorney, Head of Trademark Department (Gorodissky & Partners, Moscow), "A Name as an Asset: Why the Hermitage and the Tretyakov Gallery Protected Their Names, but Phystech Did Not".

29 October 2026

Webinar “Doing Business and Protecting IP in the UAE”, Dubai Sergey Medvedev, Ph.D., LL.M., Russian Trademark & Design Attorney, Eurasian Design Attorney, Managing Partner (Gorodissky & Partners, Moscow), Hatem Mohamed, Junior Associate, (Gorodissky & Partners, Dubai) and Vladislav Cheremisinov, Investment Manager – Middle East and CIS Region, Dubai Chambers, successfully conducted a webinar "Doing Business and Protecting Intellectual Property in UAE".

29 October 2026

Workshop “From Idea to Patent: Step-by-Step Guide to Drafting and Filing an Application”, Novosibirsk Natalia Nikolaeva, Partner, Russian Trademark Attorney, Regional Director (Gorodissky & Partners, Novosibirsk), took part in the workshop “From Idea to Patent: Step-by-Step Guide to Drafting and Filing an Application”, organized by the Novosibirsk Regional Innovation Fund and Siberian center of Federal Institute of Industrial Property (Rospatent).

27 October 2026

Legal Award “Legal Services and Business Protection – TOP-50” On October 27, 2026, the Congress Center of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation hosted the official awards ceremony for the laureates of the legal award “Legal Services and Business Protection – TOP-50”.

25 October - 26 October 2026

LES APAC Conference 2026, Seoul, Korea A delegation of the “Gorodissky & Partners” law firm: Yury Kuznetsov, Senior Partner, Russian Patent Attorney, Eurasian Patent & Design Attorney, Head of Patent Practice, Evgeny Alexandrov, Ph.D., Senior Partner, Russian Trademark & Design Attorney, Eurasian Design Attorney, Head of Legal, Trademark & Design Practice and Alexander Nesterov, Partner, Russian Trademark Attorney (all - Gorodissky & Partners, Moscow) took part in the LES APAC 2026 conference in Seoul.

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Notable Success in a Non-Use Cancellation Dispute Gorodissky team together with the client developed a defense strategy against trademark squatter based on proving lack of genuine interest. The claim was dismissed in full due to lack of interest, without proceeding to examine the evidence of use presented by Canon.

Successful Representation of the Client in a Pharmaceutical Patent Dispute The dispute lasted over four years. As a result of the coordinated work of the Consultant's patent attorneys and lawyers, as well as interaction with the Client, the Patent was declared invalid by the decision of Rospatent, which was confirmed by the Intellectual Property Court. As a result, the Arbitration Court of Moscow dismissed the Opponent's claim for infringement of the right to the invention under the Patent.

Case No. СИП-180/2022: successful representation of the Client's interests in a dispute with Rospatent The specialists of Gorodissky & Partners successfully represented the Client's interests in court instances, as a result of which trademark No. 652806 was cancelled. The illegally registered trademark could mislead consumers and cause significant damage to the Client’s intellectual property and business reputation.

Successful Representation оf the Software Developer in the Dispute on the Exclusive Rights Enforcement Our firm’s lawyers were able to convince the judges that the Defendant had not unlawfully used the litigious computer programme, because it was using its own software, therefore, was exploiting its own exclusive rights.

Successful Representation of Client in a Dispute on Infringement of Patented Invention Taking into account our arguments and the expert’s opinion, the court has concluded that the invention under the Claimant’s patent is not used in the Client’s product and has dismissed its claims. Thus, the Client has got an opportunity to freely produce and market its product.

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21 October 2026

Russia’s Supreme Court upholds protection for foreign IP owners The Supreme Court examined the case and noted that Decree No. 322 requires special payment procedures. At the same time, the Decree sets out exceptions to the procedure if the IP owner’s products are on the Russian market. The Supreme Court explained that, in Russia, IP rights are guaranteed equally regardless of the IP owner’s citizenship or place of business.

8 October 2026

Navigating Russia’s Rules on Trademark Letters of Consent Liudmila Serova, Partner and Trademark Attorney at Gorodissky & Partners, Russia, outlines when letters of consent are required for trademark registration in Russia, and why applicants must ensure they meet strict legal and procedural requirements.

17 September 2026

Compulsory licensing in pharma: trends of Russian court practice and position of the Constitutional Court Natalia Nikolaeva, Partner, and Ilya Goryachev, Counsel, at Gorodissky & Partners explore the development of Russian disputes of compulsory licensing in a pharmarelevant context, including the recent decision of the Constitutional Court setting the interpretation of legal issues for such disputes.

15 September 2026

RUSSIA: Infringer Gently Scraped by Gillette The case is of broad significance to brand owners enforcing rights in Russia: the IP Court’s ruling that a plaintiff need not possess precise data on the scale of infringing sales, and that unchallenged compensation figures may be relied upon, provides a framework for securing awards that better reflect the true extent of the infringement. This moves Russian trademark enforcement meaningfully beyond the token sums that have long characterized the field.

7 September 2026

Obtaining design protection in Russia From the Russian perspective, a product’s design can be protected by obtaining a patent for industrial design. An exclusive right to an industrial design is recognized and protected in Russia only upon its registration, which is followed by the issuance of a respective design patent. The availability of national, international and regional filing routes gives applicants considerable flexibility in building a design protection strategy for Russia.

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Intellectual property

Inventions & Utility Models

Trademarks

Industrial Designs

Patent Information Services

Geographical Indications and Appellations of Origin of goods

Maintenance of Registered IP Rights

Plant Varieties and Animal Breeds

International Patenting

Patent Clearance Search

Preparation of Clearance Opinions

Monitoring

Opinion on Trademark Infringement

Software, Databases, Topographies

Dispute Resolution and Litigation

IP Enforcement and Anti-counterfeiting

IP Transactions

Unfair Competition and False Advertising

IP Due Diligence and Audit

Strategic Consulting

On-line monitoring and enforcement services

Advertising and Media

IP Taxation and Accounting

Copyright and Related Rights

Domain Names and Websites

Internet and E-Commerce

Trade Secrets and Know-How

IT, Data Protection and Privacy

Telecommunications

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