Dmitry Sando

• “Shifting tides of protection in the food and beverage sector” (“World Trademark Review”, #70, December 2017/January 2018)
• “How to combat counterfeiting” (“World Trademark Review”, № 67, 2017)
• “A new approach to passing off” (Managing Intellectual Property / Europe IP Focus 2017, April 2017)
• “Suppression of unfair competition and unfair/inaccurate advertising on the Internet (Advertising or unfair competition?)” (Gorodissky and Partners Information Bulletin, № 3 (114) 2016)

Presentations

• “Legal protection of graphic patterns in Russia and abroad” (20th Gorodissky annual seminar “IP Protection Strategies for Successful Company Development”, Moscow, June 2022)
• “Legal and illegal use of trademarks. The border of bad faith in doing business” (18th Gorodissky annual seminar “IP Protection Strategies for Successful Company Development”, Moscow, October 2020)
• “Practical aspects of on-line brand protection in Russia” (IP Service World 2019, Munich, November 2019)
• “New instruments of combatting unfair competition. Suppression of unfair Internet advertising” (seminar “Practical aspects of management of company’s IP assets”, Perm, May 2014)

• Consulting a large American sports company on issues of using the Olympic symbols.
• Consulting a Japanese company in a case against unfair competition, in particular copying the product’s package.
• Consulting a German lighting company on effective prejudicial protection of means of individualization.
• Obtaining of rights for the domain names for German and Belgium pharmaceutic companies.
• Consulting a large Russian airline on aspects of in-house use of IP objects.
• Consulting a Russian pharmaceutical company on assignment and licensing of IP.
• Represented a large American perfumery company in a case of cancellation of a third party`s trademark due to non-use followed by its registration in the name of a client.
• Consulting and representation of an American toy company before the law-enforcement authorities and courts in a case of copyright infringement.
• Prejudicial dispute resolution and suppression of IP infringement for innovative Canadian company (producer of backpacks, bags and touristic accessories).
• Prejudicial dispute resolution of IP rights infringement case for a French company, producer of conductor cables.
• Representation of a large US company in a court case against the Russian PTO which refused to satisfy an appeal against the grant of a patent to a competitor.
• Consulting and legal support of franchise registration for Russian partners from the rightholder — Canadian supplier of automotive components.