Maxim Ali chose and commented for Delovoy Peterburg on the most significant IP/IP litigation case
Delovoy Peterburg newspaper asked St Petersburg lawyers to highlight the most important and high-profile litigations involving local companies in current legal practices over the past year. Specially for the media, Maxim Ali, Partner, Head of IP/IT Practice at Maxima Legal, told about the dispute on protection of the exclusive right to a computer…
10.01.2023
Maxim Ali has commented on a planned deal to sell Vimpelcom to Russian management
Veon, a Netherlands-based holding company, agreed to sell Vimpelcom to a group of top executives from its Russian branch. Veon valued Vimpelcom at RUB 370 bn, but will eventually receive RUB 130 bn - the remainder will be repaid from debt written off on the Russian business. Under the terms of the agreement, Veon will also be entitled to receive a…
09.01.2023
Maxima Legal lawyers told Forbes what will change in business laws in 2023
In the past year, Russia regularly introduced amendments to legislation that changed the rules of the game for entrepreneurs. Nikita Deynega, Senior Associate and Head of Tax & Administrative Law Practice at Maxima Legal, explained to Forbes Russia that the main trend in 2022 was the reactivity of changes: many of the amendments to laws were…
09.01.2023
Maxim Ali helped RBC understand the potential penalties for doxing
Doxing is the publication of personal information about a person without their consent for the purpose of harassment, blackmail or profit. The term is derived from the English derivative dox (a variant spelling of the word docs); the person who commits doxing is called a doxer. The information published by the perpetrator may include a person's…
15.12.2022
Maxim Ali has explained to Pravo.ru the contrary logic of the courts of different instances while considering the dispute over the protection of an exclusive right to a computer programme
Maxim Ali, Partner, Head of IP/IT Practice at Maxima Legal, told Pravo.ru legal media that software developers often move from one company to another and create their own startups in the same area in which they used to work. According to the expert, the former employer sees that his former employee has created a similar product and begins to…
29.11.2022
Maxim Ali has explained to Pravo.ru why the conclusions of the courts of general jurisdiction on the protection of rights to photographs differ from the position of the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation referred a case for reconsideration concerning compensation for moral damage for the theft of photographs and the application of a logo on them without the author's consent. The lower courts considered that, based on the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, the right to dispose of the product of…
23.11.2022
Maxim Ali has discussed with Telesputnik magazine how the ban on LGBT propaganda in Russia will affect video services
On 27 October 2022, the State Duma unanimously adopted amendments to legislation banning LGBT propaganda in Russia under the threat of a fine of up to RUB 5m and expulsion from the country for foreigners. Maxim Ali, Partner and Head of IP/IT practice at Maxima Legal, estimated that the bills are likely to lead to the banning of all controversial…
17.11.2022
Maxim Ali has analysed for Delovoy Peterburg an attempt by Polysan pharmaceutical company to ban a competitor from bringing an identical drug to market
A dispute between Polysan Scientific and Technical Pharmaceutical Firm, on the one hand, and Grotex LLC and the Ministry of Health, on the other hand, ended in the Commercial Court of Moscow. "Polysan requested that Grotex (Solopharm brand) be prohibited from marketing Flatocin and the Ministry of Health from registering the drug. According to the…
14.11.2022
Maxim Ali told Forbes whether the future of Bookmate, Individuum and Popcorn Books in Russia will be affected by their affiliation with foreign-agent media
At the end of October, the Ministry of Justice declared the owner of the Bookmate book service, Irish Bookmate Limited, the former CEO of its Russian division Andrei Baev, and Alexei Dokuchaev, the CEO of Individuum and Popcorn Books, whose majority shares were also owned by the parent foreign brand, to be foreign-agent media. According to book…
10.11.2022
Maxim Ali commented for Delovoy Peterburg on the game developer's dispute with Rospatent over the registration of a trademark resembling an iconic game brand
Saint-Petersburg game developer Exbo North is challenging in the Intellectual Rights Court a partial refusal of Rospatent to register the trademark STALCRAFT, under which the game developer continues to modify Minecraft and develops a multiplayer role-playing action game based on the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. universe. According to Maxim Ali, Head of IT/IP…
09.11.2022