Articles and Publications

2 August 2018

Anti-counterfeiting measures will never succeed in removing all counterfeits from the market, but they do make it significantly more difficult for counterfeiters to produce and sell fakes

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31 July 2018

The Council of the Federation of the Federal Assembly (‘the Federation Council’) issued, on 14 May 2018, draft guidelines for implementing measures to ensure the safety and development of children on the Internet (‘the Draft Guidelines’). Ilya Goryachev, Senior Lawyer at Gorodissky & Partners, provides an analysis of the potential technical obligations of the Draft Guidelines on website providers.

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31 July 2018

The problem of the protection of intellectual rights in an industrial society is very acute. Fruitful scientific and technical ideas, increasing labor productivity, bring significant profits. Naturally, scientists, inventors, designers want to use the material fruits of their mental work. There is a whole area in the field of legal regulation – the system of intellectual rights, serving to provide this justified desire. The Law Firm Gorodissky & Partners has great experience and merits in this field. We want to tell you about the firm, its daily activities, success and achievements, and our questions will be answered by Yury Kuznetsov, Partner of the law firm, Head of Patent Practice.

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12 July 2018

Viacheslav Rybchak from Gorodissky & Partners closely considers AOGs and GIs in Russian intellectual property law and how they will be used to stimulate the development of the legal system.

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26 June 2018

On 1 July 2017 the Federal Law of 1 May 2017 on the Amendment of the Federal Law on Information, Information Technologies and Data Protection and Certain Legislative Acts (the Audiovisual Services Law) took effect.(1) The law introduced an innovative legal regime for the operation of streaming and video on demand (VOD) services in Russia.

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