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Intellectual Property

Boris Malakhov
Partner
Practice leader
Andrey Zelenin
Managing Partner
Our internationally recognized team will assist you in protecting and realizing the full business potential of your intellectual property assets
WE PROVIDE CLEAR ADVICE ON ISSUES BIG AND SMALL

What we do

Litigation and resolution of IP disputes
Representing client in patent dispute sin Russian and across CIS
Brand enforcement and anti-counterfeiting support through litigation, antitrust, administrative, and criminal proceedings
Advising and representation before Russian and CIS patent, customs, and antitrust authorities in matters related to IP protection, including during opposition proceedings
Advising and representing clients before Rospatent and across CIS
Creation of efficient systems to monitor and combat counterfeiting
Monitoring and enforcement of IP assets on the Internet, including social networks and marketplaces
Defense against counterfeiting and parallel imports, including adding IP into the Customs Registry
Legal due diligence for IP assets
Advising on IP issues related to M&A, joint ventures, franchising and other transactions
Advising on various aspects of online and offline advertising and digital business
Registration of trademarks, patents, utility models, and industrials designs
Advising on copyright protection related to software development
HANDLE CHALLENGING AND COMPLEX MATTERS

Matters

Representing global pharmaceutical company Merck & Co in series of patent and data exclusivity disputes across the CIS region (Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Georgia)

Representinga a major Russian pharmaceutical manufacturer Izvarino Pharma in a series of patent disputes, including disputes on infringement, validity and challenging extension of the original drug patent

Advising a Chinese IT corporation in managing its trademark portfolio in Russia and EEU, including various issues of the brand protection in customs authorities

Representing major German manufacturer of gluing products in a series of disputes over unfair competition and copyright infringement by local manufacturers

Representing the Mikoyan Meat Processing Plant in a dispute over unlawful registration by a competitor of similar to the trademark of the client’s most profitable line of product (settled on the initiative of the competitor)

Representing the international Chinese holding Hilong, which produces high-tech oil and gas equipment, in a series of disputes concerning infringement and stealing of know-how and confidential information by the former distributor

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