Articles and Publications
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19 October 2017
Evgeny Alexandrov of Gorodissky & Partners discusses the legal environment for IP protection within the Eurasian Economic Union, including a draft treaty introducing a regional trademark and service mark protection system
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18 October 2017
The Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) is a relatively new economic union of several countries of the former USSR. The economic relations between those countries were broken and now they are taking steps to restore those relations. Currently the EAEU includes five countries: Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan.
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8 October 2017
Design Rights: Functionality and Scope of Protection addresses the issue of functionality in the context of design rights. Protection of industrial and other designs has developed as a distinct and important area of intellectual property law. This book, while providing a solid foundation of the law regarding the protection and enforcement of design rights, focuses on the ever-present, and always contentious, issue of functionality in the context of design rights.
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5 October 2017
This Q&A guide gives a high-level overview of data protection rules and principles, including obligations on the data controller and the consent of data subjects; rights to access personal data or object to its collection; and security requirements. It also covers cookies and spam; data processing by third parties; and the international transfer of data. This article also details the national regulator; its enforcement powers; and sanctions and remedies. This article is part of the global guide to data protection. For a full list of contents, please visit .
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2 October 2017
Many users and businesses utilise anonymising technologies, such as virtual private networks (‘VPNs’), in order to increase privacy and security on their systems, but in Russia, from 1 November 2017, new rules aimed at establishing greater control over the use of VPNs, other anonymisers and technology that redirects Russian internet traffic through foreign servers will enter into force. These new rules introduced via Federal Law No. 276-FZ (the ‘Amending Law’), which introduces amendments to Federal Law No.149-FZ on Information, Information Technologies and the Protection of Information. Ilya Goryachev, Senior Lawyer at Gorodissky and Partners, assesses the specifics and implications of the Amending Law, and considers what prompted the Russian Government to introduce the amendments that grant new powers to Russia’s IT, mass media and telecommunications regulator Roskomnadzor.
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