Maksim Volkov
Senior Associate
Attorney-at-Law
Trademark Attorney
Legal Department
Moscow
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- Trademarks
- Industrial designs
- Software, domains and database protection
- Unfair competition disputes
- Legal representation and dispute resolution
- Copyright and neighboring rights
- Patent litigation
- Know-how and protection of trade secrets
- Contracts, M&A and due diligence with regard to IP
- Protection of a trademark portfolio of a leading international non-alcoholic beverage manufacturer in trial and administrative proceedings concerning counterfeiting, parallel import and non-use cancellation actions.
- Representation of one of the world’s largest multinational consumer packaged goods in a dispute before the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) regarding unfair competition in the form of imitation of the packaging of a cosmetic product.
- Litigation concerning infringement of rights to software source code involving multi-billion-ruble risks.
- Representation of major Russian FMCG companies in trademark infringement disputes with claims amounting to several hundred million rubles in each case.
- Legal support in a series of disputes between two well-known coffeehouse brands concerning trademarks, arising after the sale of the Russian assets of a foreign brand.
- Recognition of trademarks as well-known in the Russian Federation.
- Representation of clients in disputes involving protection of invention and authorship of patents.
- Defense of a Chinese trademark owner against non-use cancellation, protection of a Norwegian company’s brand in dispute during a corporate conflict and representation of a U.S. manufacturer of banknote counters in an anti-counterfeiting dispute.
- Preparation of intellectual property due diligence sections of software development companies.
- Preparation of a legal opinion on the risks associated with the sale of IP assets by a foreign company in light of imposed restrictive measures.
- Representation of a client in a major arbitration (ICAC at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation) concerning a dispute with a customer following early termination of a construction contract.
- Representation of a foreign broker in a non-bankruptcy dispute challenging the set-off (netting) performed after the revocation of a bank’s license.
- Challenging a series of corporate transactions involving the alienation of 100% of the shares in a coal mining company in favor of a creditor bank.
- Representation of a major Belarusian developer in a construction contract dispute with a German construction holding.
- Legal support in separate disputes within the framework of bankruptcy proceedings of one of the largest construction companies in the energy sector.
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