Articles and Publications

5 March 2025

Anna Degtyareva of Gorodissky & Partners examines the evolving landscape of parallel imports in Russia, detailing the government’s temporary allowances for select goods amid ongoing sanctions while reinforcing that parallel imports remain largely illegal.

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3 March 2025

The Russian legislation, regulations and statutory acts do not contain any restrictions in connection with prosecution and enforcement of intellectual property. Any overseas entity is free to obtain and dispose intellectual property rights in Russia as usual.  In order to keep the trademark safe it is strongly advisable not to neglect timely registration of the trademark in the name of the genuine trademark holder. Use of the trademark for the registered goods is obligatory to secure it from early termination.

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3 February 2025

Part IV of the Russian Civil Code governs legal protection of inventions and utility models. Russia is a member of the World Trade Organization, the World Intellectual Property Organization, the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), the Patent Law Treaty, the Eurasian Patent Convention (EAPC), and a number of other international patent law treaties.

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28 January 2025

In the article the author reports on the challenge of the Eurasian patent #024421 for the drug Osimertinib between the right holder AstraZeneca and the Russian drug manufacturer Axelpharm.

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13 January 2025

Pharmaceutical products must go through research, clinical trials, and  registration with the health ministry or other  authorised government bodies, before going to the public. This multi-tiered composite procedure gave birth to extending  the term of patents directed to pharmaceutical  products up to 25 years in many jurisdictions. Circumstances surrounding such cases may present difficulties to the patent owner.

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