18th Gorodissky Annual Seminar “IP Protection Strategies for Company Successful Development”

The 18th Annual Seminar “IP Protection Strategies for Company Successful Development” was held by Gorodissky & Partners online this year.

Within 3 days, leading IP attorneys and lawyers of the Moscow and Novosibirsk offices, as well as the invited speaker from the Eurasian Patent Office, held 3 sessions: patents, trademarks and legal aspects, and highlighted the most important practical issues and development trends in IP.

On the first day of the seminar, devoted to patents, great interest was aroused by the first time raised round table topic “Use of values intervals for characterizing the invention in the claims”, as well as speeches on global trends in patent activity; new regulations of examination of administrative disputes in the Chamber of Patent Disputes of the Russian PTO; and the review of the Russian PTO’s practice related to patent disputes.

The session devoted to trademarks was the most intense. Six reports were presented and among others, the following issues were discussed: brand protection as an important element of business development strategy; geographical indications as assets providing new business opportunities; analysis of key positions of the highest courts in disputes on the protection of exclusive rights to trademarks; protection of the graphic interface as an industrial design.

The final day of the seminar was devoted to the legal aspects of ownership and disposal of intellectual property. The firm's lawyers shared their practice and presented speeches on intellectual property as an element of business control; spoke about ways to conduct an advertising campaign without legal problems, and talked about the practice of passing Roskomnadzor’s checks on personal data.

The seminar brought together over 100 participants: company executives, business development specialists, heads of legal, research and licensing departments, lawyers, patent attorneys, engineers, inventors, marketing and advertising specialists, and brand managers from many regions of Russia.