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Lidings Team Wins a Precedent-Setting Dispute on The Cancellation of a Drug Registration Due to Inaccurate Information in The Drug Dossier

28 November 2024

Lidings’ Intellectual Property practice team succeeded in obtaining cancellation of registration of a drug in a dispute against the holder of the marketing authorisation (MA) due to the fact that during the process of registration of a generic drug product the Ministry of Health of Russia received false information from the holder of the MA.

Lidings Ran a Roundtable on Launch of Medicines and Pharmaceutical Substances in Russian and Indian Markets in Delhi

11 November 2024

On November 7, 2024, Lidings held a round table discussion " Launch of Medicines and Pharmaceutical Substances in Russian and Indian Markets" as part of the business program of the Forum "Under One Sun: Russia-India. Business and Culture ", which took place in Delhi, November 6 - 8, 2024.

Highlights of the event in our overview.

Lidings Holds a Round Table on Launch of Medicines and Pharmaceutical Substances in the Russian Market in Delhi

06-08 November 2024

On 6-8 November 2024 the international forum “Under One Sun: Russia-India. Business and Cultur” will take place in Delhi, India withing the 100th anniversary of the Russian Association for International Cooperation. The event is organized on the initiative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation and the Trade Mission in India with the support of Lidings as a co-organizer of the business discussion.

During the forum on November 7 Lidings will hold a special round table “Launch of Medicines and Pharmaceutical Substances in Russian and Indian Markets” moderated by Lidings’ partner Boris Malakhov and counsel Natalya Thotahewage.

Significant Turnaround in Russian Antitrust Practice of Protecting the Exclusivity of Drugs

29 October 2024

Despite the fact that the issue of intellectual property rights turnover is included in the perimeter of antimonopoly regulation, until recently the Russian Antitrust Agency took rather an observant position.

The regulator's position was that the issue of patent infringement is a private legal dispute between original and generic manufacturers, which should not affect the turnover of drugs, particularly the execution of contracts based on the results of public procurement. Only in isolated cases the Russian Antitrust Agency has established the fact of patent infringement and issued a corresponding order on the inadmissibility of anti-competitive practices.

Now the reverse trend has clearly emerged.

More in our update.