Round table ‘Customs Control Trends. Customs Value. Country of Origin. Judicial Practice on Customs Disputes’

Viktor Stankovsky, Partner, Russian Patent Attorney, Eurasian Patent & Design Attorney, Regional Director (Gorodissky & Partners, St.Petersburg) spoke on ‘Counterfeit and exclusive right to trademark’ at the round table ‘Customs Control Trends. Customs Value. Country of Origin. Judicial Practice on Customs Disputes‘ in the Leningrad Region Chamber of Commerce and Industry’.

«We are constantly receiving requests to include additional trademarks in the Customs Register of Intellectual Property Objects (TROIS) and to track the flow of these goods through customs checkpoints. Customs authorities ask for information not only about the fact of inclusion of a trademark in TROIS, but also about the goods and, most importantly, about the signs of counterfeiting», Viktor Stankovsky said.