Vladimir Biriulin

• “Non-used Trademarks in Russia in Jeopardy” (The Trademark Lawyer Newsletter by CTC Legal Media, July 2024)
• “How Trademark Law Impacts Russian Trade” (Asia Business Law Journal, May 2024)
• “Trademark owners under scrutiny of the Supreme Court: a review” (The Trademark Lawyer Newsletter by CTC Legal Media, May 2024)
• “Law on guard of intellectual property” (Asia IP by the Apex Asia Media Group, April 2024)
• “IP protection and dispute management in Russia” (Asia Business Law Journal, April 2024)
• “Better late than never” (Asia IP by the Apex Asia Media Group, March 2024)
• “Navigating the Eurasian Patent Landscape: Advantages for Innovators in the Middle East” (Biz Today, March 2024)
• “Trademark squatter eliminated by the BBC after attempted exploitation of the TOP GEAR mark” (The Trademark Lawyer Newsletter by CTC Legal Media, March 2024)
• “Russia-UAE economic ties strengthen with $9bn trade” (TRENDS The International Media on Arab Affairs, November 2023)
• “Changes to Russia’s IP landscape amid newly imposed sanctions” (The Patent Lawyer Magazine by CTC Legal Media, October 2023)
• “Russia: copy-cat branding is still taking place” (The Trademark Lawyer Newsletter by CTC Legal Media, August 2023)
• “Sanctions against Russia show their backside. Who wins?” (Mondaq, August 2023)
• “Side effects in intellectual property” (The Trademark Lawyer Newsletter by CTC Legal Media, June 2023)
• “Informal Marriage in Intellectual Property” (Russian Business Guide #10/212 by Business DIALOG Media, April 2023)
• “Storm in a Can of FANTA” (The Trademark Lawyer Newsletter by CTC Legal Media, February 2023)
• “2nd Patent Congress in Russia” (AIPPI Newsletter, February 2023)
• “The winding road of parallel import” (Invest Foresight, January 2023)
• “Mastroianni Elicits Associations Unexpected by the Applicant” (Executive Global Winter 2022, November 2022)
• “Protection of Intellectual Property in Russia is at High Level” (Russian Business Guide by Busines DIALOG Media 32/195, September 2022)
• “Starbucks. Less Bucks, More Stars” (Lexology, August 2022)
• “Non-use is not that Simple” (Lexology, August 2022)
• “Genericness banned in Russia” (The Patent Lawyer Newsletter by CTC Legal Media, August 2022)
• “Fear Stokes the Imagination” (Lexology, August 2022)
• “Damages or compensation. The choice to make for infringement in Russia” (The Trademark Lawyer by CTC Legal Media, August 2022)
• ロシアで「非友好国」の知的財産権は保護されないのか (知財ぷりずむ　2022年8月, July 2022)
• “It Ain’t Over Till the Fat Lady Sings” (Lexology, June 2022)
• “Manual Industrial Property in Turkmenistan” (Kluwer Law International, June 2022)
• “Pokemon stands up for himself” (The Trademark Lawyer by CTC Legal Media, June 2022)
• “Russian Patent Office joins the discussion” (The Patent Lawyer Newsletter by CTC Legal Media, April 2022)
• “Living in parallel reality” (Lexology, April 2022)
• “A call for truth” (The Patent Lawyer by CTC Legal Media, March 2022)
• “Much ado about something” (Lexology, March 2022)
• 医薬特許の強制実施許諾 (知財ぷりずむ　2022年２月, February 2022)
• “Federal Anti-Monopoly Service comes to the rescue in Russia” (Managing Intellectual Property, January 2022)
• “Key IP events in 2021” (Lawyer newspaper, December 2021)
• “‘Firewater’ sparks a fiery dispute in Russia” (Managing Intellectual Property, November 2021)
• “One man’s trash” (World IP Review by Newton Media Limited, issue 3, November 2021)
• “Eating the Cake and Having It” (AIPPI Newsletter, October 2021)
• “A Parallel Tug of War in Parallel Import: Russia and Ukraine Grope for a Solution” (The Global IP Matrix magazine, issue 11, September 2021)
• Art & Law Insights - Global Legal Briefing / Chapter Russia (I, Lawyer - Innovation Lawyer Project by Zaglio Orizio e Associati in collaboration with Partners & Friends, August 2021)
• “A Champagne update: Much Ado about Nothing” (The Trademark Lawyer by CTC Legal Media, July 2021)
• “Applicants enjoy continued success in Russian IP disputes” (Managing Intellectual Property, July 2021)
• “Eurasian Patent Office: The New Convenience” (The Global IP Matrix magazine, issue 10, June 2021)
• ユーラシア工業意匠の保護 (知財ぷりずむ　2021年６, June 2021)
• “Russia: Chamber rules that subject matters in inventions can be altered – if supported by features from the specification” (Managing Intellectual Property, May 2021)
• World Intellectual Property Rights and Remedies: Russian Federation (Thomson Reuters, May 2021)
• Lexology GTDT Patents 2021 / Russia (Lexology Getting The Deal Throug by Law Business Research (LBR), May 2021)
• “Trademark ruling in Russia: no protection of religious symbols by business” (Managing Intellectual Property, April 2021)
• “IP on the Go” (The Global IP Matrix magazine, issue 9, March 2021)
• “Russian chamber: similar ‘non-protectable elements’ should not affect similar ‘word elements’” (Managing Intellectual Property, March 2021)
• “IP office refuses Putin” (Managing Intellectual Property, December 2020)
• “Maldini in Russia” (Managing Intellectual Property, October 2020)
• “Companies themselves rather than business partners should register trademarks” (Managing Intellectual Property, September 2020)
• “Eurasian Patent System” (Kluwer Law International, August 2020)
• Franchising in Russia (Lexology Getting The Deal Throug – Franchise, July 2020)
• “INTA Trademark Cancellations / Chapter Russia” (INTA Trademark Cancellations International Practice and Procedures, July 2020)
• “Administrative liability does not apply to original trademark despite infringement” (Managing Intellectual Property, July 2020)
• “Pharmaceutical Extortion” (The Global IP Matrix magazine, issue 7, June 2020)
• “Russia: Trademark has no similarity to Red Cross emblem” (Managing Intellectual Property, June 2020)
• Lexology GTDT Patents 2020 / Russia (Lexology Getting The Deal Throug by Law Business Research (LBR), May 2020)
• “Russia: “Dribbler” and “Dribbling” are confusingly similar” (Managing Intellectual Property, April 2020)
• “Russia: Storing software is infringement” (Managing Intellectual Property, March 2020)
• “Doing justice to chemical patents” (The Life Sciences Lawyer by CTC Legal Media, №1 2020)
• “Well-known Trademark, a Timeless Subject Matter” (The Global IP Matrix magazine, issue 6, January 2020)
• “Reading into the latest 'resolutions' document” (WIPR November/December 2019)
• “Russia: Dura lex sed lex” (Managing Intellectual Property, November 2019)
• “Russia: Manchester in London, Chicago in St Petersburg” (Managing Intellectual Property, October 2019)
• “Russia: Letter of consent plays role in trademark registration” (Managing Intellectual Property, September 2019)
• Franchising in Russia (Lexology Getting The Deal Throug – Franchise 2020, August 2019)
• “Three Consonants” (The Global IP Matrix magazine, issue 5, August 2019)
• “Russia: Patent Office relies on report from Academy of Sciences” (Managing Intellectual Property, July 2019)
• “Geographical indications on the horizon in Russia” (“World Trademark Review”, July 2019)
• “Russian court issues controversial decision in RED SQUARE case” (“World Trademark Review”, May 2019)
• “Russia: Chicago takes root in Russia” (Managing Intellectual Property, April 2019)
• “Russia: Chamber of Patent Disputes allows legal contraband” (Managing Intellectual Property, March 2019)
• Patents 2019 (Chapter Russia) (Getting The Deal Through (GTDT) by Law Business Research (LBR), 2019)
• “Russia: Chamber of Patent Disputes cancels design on second attempt” (Managing Intellectual Property, February 2019)
• “Russia: Guaraná Antarctica battles Aqua Antarctica” (Managing Intellectual Property, Issue 279, January / February 2019)
• “訴訟提起前の警告状送付義務” (知財ぷりずむ, February 2019)
• “Russia: Analysing the case of Lunos v Linos” (Managing Intellectual Property, December 2018)
• “Supplement 38 of Global Patent Litigation - Russia” (Kluwer Law International, December 2018)
• “Russia: Prior use invalidates a trade mark” (Managing Intellectual Property, issue 277, November / December 2018)
• “Eurasian Union Trademark – an Overview of Challenges and Benefits” (IP Service World, November 2018)
• “Can London-based The Ritz Hotel Limited register RITZ PARIS mark?” (“World Trademark Review”, № 76, 2018)
• “Russia: Court rules that lion trade marks are too similar” (Managing Intellectual Property, issue 276, October 2018)
• “Trademark Cancellations in Russia” (INTA Guide: Trademark Cancellations International Practice and Procedures, September 2018)
• “The problems with joint ownership of trademarks” (The Global IP Matrix magazine, issue 2, 2018)
• “Harnessing Slowly, Riding Fast” (Executive Global, August 2018)
• “Can BLACK FRIDAY owner prevent use of 'Real Black Friday'?” (“World Trademark Review Daily”, June 2018)
• “Russia: Catalogue not considered publicly available material in bathtub case” (Managing Intellectual Property, issue 275, June 2018)
• “Herbicide goes bananas” (The Global IP Matrix magazine, issue 1, 2018)
• “Are Common Eurasian Trademarks on the Horizon?” (Executive Global, May 2018)
• “The Chamber of Patent Disputes considers the similarity of two marks” (Managing Intellectual Property, issue 274, May 2018)
• Chapter 39 - Russian Federation (World Intellectual Property Rights and Remedies by Thomson Reuters, 2018)
• “Intellectual Property Law in Russia” (Russia Corporate, Financial, and Commercial Law / ABA Publishing, 2018)
• Patents 2018 (Chapter Russia) (Getting The Deal Through (GTDT) by Law Business Research (LBR), 2018)
• “International disputes and asset recovery in Russia & CIS” (CORPORATE DISPUTES: APR-JUN 2018 by Financier Worldwide, April 2018)
• “Questioning use in relation to combined trade marks” (Managing Intellectual Property, issue 272, March 2018)
• “The impact of bankruptcy on trade mark disputes” (Managing Intellectual Property, issue 271, February 2018)
• “Britney Spears protected by Russian Court” (Managing Intellectual Property, issue 271, January 2018)
• “Bankruptcy proceedings prove an unexpected hurdle to a trademark cancellation” (World Trademark Review, Volume 70, December 2017 / January 2018)
• “Intellectual property in Russia and Sibiria” (Commersant - Novosibirsk / Results of the year, №239, 22.12.2017)
• “Showing them the ropes” (IPPro The Internet, November 2017)
• “Galloping to confusion” (Managing Intellectual Property, issue 270, Year End 2017)
• “Intellectual Property in the Eurasian Union - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” (Executive Global, Autumn 2017)
• Franchise 2018 (Chapter Russia) (Getting The Deal Through (GTDT) by Law Business Research (LBR), September 2017)
• “Cultural heritage trade mark application rejected” (Managing Intellectual Property, issue 269, September 2017)
• “ロシアでの模倣対策として ユーラシア連合商標制度を利用する” (知財ぷりずむ　Vol. 15　No. 179, August 2017)
• Intellectual Property Litigation - Annual Review 2017 (Chapter Russia) (Financier Worldwide, August 2017)
• “Line of products and “Golden Barrel”” (Managing Intellectual Property, June 2017)
• “The importance of being earnest” (Managing Intellectual Property, April 2017)
• Patent 2017 (Chapter Russia) (Getting The Deal Through (GTDT) by Law Business Research (LBR)
• “Trade mark use or right abuse?” (Managing Intellectual Property, February 2017)
• “Edible technical device: register and eat” (Managing Intellectual Property, January 2017)
• “Customs steps up to fight the counterfeiters” (World Trademark Review, Volume 65, February/March 2017)
• “Authenticity of evidence questioned in patent cancellation proceedings” (Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) - International report, November 2016)
• “Jackpot for trade mark plaintiff” (Managing Intellectual Property, November 2016)
• “Is citing photographs possible?” (The Copyright Lawyer, October 2016)
• “Happy hour is over: Patent Office cancels three BLACK RUSSIAN trademarks” (International Law Office (ILO), October 2016)
• “Halloween cannot be privatised” (Managing Intellectual Property, #261, 2016)
• “Be brighter, put out the lighter” (Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) - International report, September 2016)
• “Lack of graphic similarity enough to retain registration” (International Law Office (ILO), September 2016)
• “Hair cutting patent rejected” (Managing Intellectual Property, #260, 2016)
• Franchise 2017 (Chapter Russia) (Getting The Deal Through (GTDT) by Law Business Research (LBR)
• “Green Services or “Color Revolution”” (Gorodissky and Partners Information Bulletin, № 2 (112) 2016)
• “Pharma patent owners can breathe a sigh of relief” (Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) - International report, May 2016)
• Chapter Russia (“World Trademark Review (WTR) - Anti-counterfeiting 2016”, 2016)
• “Other Rights”, “Application of Civil Remedies against IPR Infringements” (“IP Management in Russia” of Gorodissky & Partners for JETRO, 3rd edition, March 2016)
• “Pre-judicial procedure to become mandatory” (Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) - International report, March 2016)
• “Protectability may be mind-boggling” (Managing Intellectual Property, #257, 2016)
• “Obvious falseness or wise ingenuity?” (Managing Intellectual Property, #256, 2016)
• “Anti-monopoly Service tackles health concerns” (Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) - International report, January 2016)
• “Twin-faced daily bread” (Managing Intellectual Property, #255, 2015)
• “The perils of secrecy” (Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) - International report, December 2015)
• “Ambush marketing in Russia: theory and practice” (World IP Review, November/December 2015)
• “Perfumes in trade marks” (Managing Intellectual Property, #254, 2015)
• Chapter Russia (World Trademark Review Yearbook 2016/2017)
• “Law Deals a Blow to the List of Features” (Gorodissky and Partners Information Bulletin, № 3 (106) 2015)
• “Ford’s status saved by IP Court” (Managing Intellectual Property, #253, 2015)
• “Acquired distinctiveness saves a trade mark” (Managing Intellectual Property, #252, 2015)
• “Intellectual property acquires a general manager” (Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) - International report, September 2015)
• “GASTARBEITER mark expands its presence in Russia” (Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) - International report, July 2015)
• “Afterworld knocks on the door of the Supreme Court” (Managing Intellectual Property, #251, 2015)
• “Unprotectable? Not if the words are merged” (Managing Intellectual Property, #250, 2015)
• “Is a licence valid without registration?” (Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) - International report, May 2015)
• “Tax risks of cross-border” (Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) - International report, April 2015)
• “Gigolos treated differently in EU and Russia” (Managing Intellectual Property, #248, 2015)
• “Tackling parallel imports” (Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) - International report, February 2015)
• Chapter Russia (Designs: A Global Guide 2015, a supplement to World Trademark Review, #1, 2015)
• “What's in a name? The courts decide” (Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) - International report, February 2015)
• “McDonald’s can still play music” (Managing Intellectual Property, #245, 2015)
• “Employees’ inventions: a load off their minds” (IPPro the Internet 2014/15)
• “Different fates for Tarantino and Broadway” (Managing Intellectual Property, #243, 2014)
• “Bulls clash without loss for either” (Managing Intellectual Property, #241, 2014)
• “Prokhorovka Battlefield and cultural heritage” (Managing Intellectual Property, #240, 2014)
• “Red cross background unprotectable as a trade mark” (Managing Intellectual Property, #239, 2014)
• “Gagarin deserves a better fate” (Managing Intellectual Property, #238, 2014)
• “Patent trolls on the march until March” (Managing Intellectual Property, #237, 2014)
• “Court sides with Gagarin’s daughter” (Managing Intellectual Property, #235, 2014)
• “Welcome to the club” (IPPro the Internet 2013/14)
• “A constantly evolving picture” (World Trademark Review, #45 2013)
• “Rising to new challenges” (World Trademark Review, #41 2013)
• “iPad too simple to be a 3D trade mark” (Managing Intellectual Property, #234, 2013)
• “Dispute over „Drink less“ slogan” (Managing Intellectual Property, #233, 2013)
• “IP now has its own court in Russia” (Managing Intellectual Property, #232, 2013)
• “Trade mark infringement costs dearly” (Managing Intellectual Property, #230, 2013)
• “Is this squirrel a danger to the public?” (Managing Intellectual Property, #229, 2013)
• “Can you render services in paradise?” (Managing Intellectual Property, #228, 2013)
• “No Pompidou toothpaste” (Managing Intellectual Property, #227, 2013)
• “Pushkin still a poet and not a restaurant” (Managing Intellectual Property, #226, 2013)
• “Two sides of the same coin” (World Trademark Review, #39 2012)
• “Authenticity is the key” (World Trademark Review, #34 2012)
• “Patent Office guns down trade mark raider” (Managing Intellectual Property, #224, 2012)
• “Versaille mark registered in strange decision” (Managing Intellectual Property, #223, 2012)
• “Bourbon too well known to be confusing” (Managing Intellectual Property, #222, 2012)
• “Jaguar wins appeal against beastly mark” (Managing Intellectual Property, #221, 2012)
• “Patent Office saves biblical bread for all” (Managing Intellectual Property, #220, 2012)
• “EU emblem saved by the Patent Office” (Managing Intellectual Property, #219, 2012)
• “Latin marks win unlikely registrations” (Managing Intellectual Property, #218, 2012)
• “Hispania more recognizable than Vienna?” (Managing Intellectual Property, #217, 2012)
• “A cake for the beloved mother in law” (Managing Intellectual Property, #216, 2012)
• “Trade mark owner wins unfair competition case” (Managing Intellectual Property, #215, 2012)
• “The choice: litigate or compromise?” (World Trademark Review, #31 2011)
• “Domain name management in the ‘. ru’ and ‘.рф’ zones” (World Trademark Review, #25, 2010)
• “Anti-counterfeiting in Russia — demand will always fuel supply” (World Trademark Review, #24, 2010)
• “Parallel import in the light of parallel logic” (“Patent Attorney”, #1, 2010)
• “Trademarks and subjects of world cultural heritage” (“Patents and Licenses”, #3, 2008)

Presentations

• “Intellectual Property in the Times of Global Changes: Status and Prospects” (Seminar “Intellectual Property in the Times of Global Changes: Status and Prospects” , Dubna, April 2022)
• “IP: Reliable Base for Business in Russia” (7th World Intellectual Property Forum, Taipei, November 2019)
• “Current IP Landscape in Russia” (Seminar “Obtaining and Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights in Russia”, Moscow, September 2019)
• “Is parallel importation an issue that will eventually disappear or is it becoming more of a problem for both authorities, authorised distributors and trademark owners?”, “To what extent is “bad faith” relevant in contentious trademark cases, copying of style and copying of packaging?”, “Recent court decisions affecting IP licensing in the BRICS countries and Sweden”, “How to pierce the corporate veil in Chinese trademark infringement cases” (BIPF/FICPI 2019 BRICS IP Forum, Stockholm, May 2019)
• “Trademarks vs. Company Names” (6th World Intellectual Property Forum, New Delhi, November 2018)
• “IP rights and Competition Law” (Conference “IP Drives the Bottom Line”, New Delhi, November 2018)
• “Protection of GUI in BRICS countries”, “Expediting Examination of Patent Applications in Brazil, India and Russia” (10th BRICS IP Forum (BIPF), Chengdu (China), March 2018)
• “The Impact of IP on Innovations” (Meeting of Presidents of BRICS Patent Offices, Chengdu (China), March 2018)
• “Protection and Enforcement of Trademarks in various jurisdiction” (10th Global IP Convention, Bangalore (India), January 2018)
• “Recent IP Developments in BRICS Countries”, “Enforcement Practice in BRICS Countries”, “Service Inventions”, “Patentability of Computer Implemented Inventions” (BRICS IP Forum 2017, Paris, October 2017)
• “Effective strategies for protecting your IP in Russia” (Global IP & Innovation Summit 2017, Shanghai, August 2017)
• “Trademark and brand protection in a digital market place: the what and how” (World Intellectual Property Forum (WIPF) “Harnessing the Power of Intellectual Property”, Bengaluru (India), April 2017)
• “Civil liability for IP rights infringement”, “Administrative responsibility and prosecution for IP rights infringement” (1st Seminar “IP in modern business”, Vladivostok, February 2017)
• “Recent IP Developments in BRICS countries” and “Disposal and Enforcement of IP in Russia” (BRICS IP Forum, London, November 2016)
• “IP in oil and gas industry in the context of import substitution” (3rd Oil and Gas Forum in Perm “New approaches and technologies to maintain the extraction activity on a late stage of field development”, October 2016)
• “Intellectual property – import substitution” (IP Seminar “The role of intellectual property in doing business today”, Vladivostok, September 2016)
• “Intellectual Property: Fuel of Innovation” (Global IP & Innovation Summit 2016, Shanghai, September 2016)
• “Law Deals a Blow to the List of Features” (Gorodissky and Partners Information Bulletin, № 3 (106) 2015)
• “Enforcement of patents and trademarks, injunctive relief. Landmark court precedents” (BIPF 2014 — BRICS IP Forum, Munich, Germany, October 2014)
• “Large-scale implementation of a trademark: how to save the trademark ownership” (Annual Seminar “IP Strategies for Company’s Successful Development”, Moscow, April 2014)
• “Intellectual property — the base of technologic development” (International Economic Forum of the states-members of the CIS, Moscow, March 2014)
• “Collection of evidence — halfway to successful judgment” (IP Annual Seminar “Obtaining and Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights in Russia”, Saint Petersburg, August 2013)
• “The problem of Trademark Non-Use. Don’t lose your trademark” (BIPF 2013 — BRICS IP Forum Chicago, USA, May 2013)
• “Parallel Import The End of the Maze?” (IP Annual Seminar “Obtaining and Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights in Russia”, Moscow, September, 2012)
• “Intellectual property and law enforcement in Russia” (Annual Seminar “Annual Seminar “IP Strategies for Company’s Successful Development” Moscow, April 2012)
• “Recent amendments in Russian IP laws” (JETRO Seminar “Russian IP Law”, Moscow, February 2012)
• “New Russian IP Law of 2008” (Tokyo, February 2012)
• “Doing business in Russia” (LESI Conference, Sandton, South Africa, April 2010)
• “IP Rights Enforcement in Russia” (BIPF 2011 — BRICS IP Forum, Moscow, September 2011)
• “Parallel Import in BRIC Countries” (BIPF 2010 — BRICS IP Forum, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, December 2010)
• “IPR Enforcement in Russia” (IP Annual Seminar “Obtaining and Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights in Russia”, Shanghai, September 2008)

• Represented a well-known American playwright in a case of a copyright protection against several Russian theatres; as a result the theatres made licensing agreements with the author for using her plays.
• Trademark protection against company name in the context of uncertain legal framework; as a result, the court obliged the company name owner to change its name.
• Litigation support of a large European jewelry manufacturer in a criminal case; the infringer mixed counterfeit with original products and sold it as original; the infringer was sentenced to one year imprisonment and a heavy fine.
• Represented a large European automobile company in a trademark defense case against parallel imports; the infringer, a large Russian company, purchased and sold original products without permission of the rights’ holder; the case had a significant impact on the judicial practice of parallel import prohibition.
• Transactional support for a large US medical company on a range of licenses and sublicenses in several CIS countries.
• Provided return of a trademark for a large Asian beer company from Russian entrepreneur`s illegal possession.