Kommersant Publishing House has included Maxima Legal in the list of leaders of the legal market in Russia-2025
Kommersant Publishing House has published the results of its own annual survey of the legal business in Russia. Maxima Legal has confirmed its reputation as one of the leading domestic legal consultants, having been recognised in 25 rating categories, 18 of which are in the 1st band of the survey. It should be noted that Kommersant has included…
24.04.2025
Kirill Katkov has commented for Novy Prospect on Yandex's disputes with a Swiss company over the Ultima brand
Yandex is trying to have the Ultima trademark cancelled in Russia through the courts. The brand is registered to Ultima Capital, a Swiss luxury housing operator, which is engaged in leasing elite residences, chalets and villas in Switzerland, France and Greece. The Ultima brand is used by Yandex for Yandex Go luxury taxis, food delivery from…
13.03.2025
Kommersant has quoted Dmitry Uryakin's commentary on the conditions for cancellation of trademark protection
Darnitsa Group, the third largest bakery products manufacturer in St Petersburg, is suing Aston Agroholding, which produces vegetable oil, for the right to use the Zateya trademark. In September last year, Darnitsa Group applied for registration of the brand of the same name in the same class of goods (bakery products). Kommersant newspaper quoted…
28.01.2025
Dmytry Uryakin has explained to Novy Prospect why Darnitsa Group is suing the oil producer over the brand name
Darnitsa Group (part of Kolomensky Holding) filed a lawsuit against vegetable oil producer Aston Food Products and Food Ingredients (Aston) for early termination of legal protection of two Zateya trademarks. At the same time, according to the Federal Intellectual Property Service, Darnitsa Group applied for registration of the same name trademark…
28.01.2025
Kirill Katkov commented to Mashnews on the dispute between IT company BeringPoint and Segezha Group over a mistake in digital transformation work
The Moscow Commercial Court has ordered IT company BeringPoint, which carried out work to unify Segezha Group's business processes on the basis of a unified SAP S/4HANA platform, to pay RUB 430 m. to the customer. Initially, the lawsuit was initiated by BeringPoint, which demanded to recover RUB 834 m. from the customer, of which RUB 390 m. were…
27.01.2025
Pravo-300 rating once again has confirmed Maxima Legal’s leading position in the Russian legal services market
On 5 December, the results of Pravo-300, the key Russian rating of law firms, were announced. Maxima Legal once again confirmed the highest level of expertise of all practices of the firm, have received professional recognition in 15 areas of research. At the same time, more than half of the company's awards were ‘gold’.On 5 December, the results…
06.12.2024
Kirill Katkov explained to Vecherny Petersburg in which cases automated calls to clients are permissible
The newspaper Vecherny Petersburg has drawn attention to the growing number of automated calls from various companies. Most of them are advertising calls. The use of voice robots for such calls is legal only if the client has given his consent to be offered advertising. At the same time, as noted by Kirill Katkov, an Associate at Maxima Legal,…
29.10.2024
Kirill Katkov explained to Telesputnik whether information disseminated by foreign agents is considered to be knowingly false by default and whether it is possible to remove such information
Telesputnik magazine drew attention to the numerous lawsuits for protection of business reputation filed by individuals and businesses against VChK-OGPU Telegram channel, which was recognised by the Ministry of Justice as a foreign agent in July 2024. At the request of the publication, Kirill Katkov, Associate at Maxima Legal, helped to understand…
15.10.2024
Kirill Katkov assessed for Pravo.ru the chances of Vladislav Bakalchuk to obtain the rights to the domain name wb.ru
The portal Pravo.ru analysed the main events in the intellectual property sphere in August. One of them is an attempt by Vladislav Bakalchuk, who owns 1% of Wildberries, to register the trademark ‘VB Vladislav Bakalchuk'. According to the businessman, the marketplace was named after the first letters of his name, and therefore he intends to…
12.09.2024
Dmitry Uryakin commented to Kommersant on an attempt by alcoholic beverage company Ladoga to challenge the trademark of a Spanish cider producer
In 2023, alcoholic beverage producer and importer Ladoga failed to register the Emerald brand due to the presence of a similar trademark with an earlier priority with Spanish company Envasados Eva. Ladoga applied to the Intellectual Rights Court for early termination of legal protection of the disputed brand, citing the fact that it is not used by…
05.07.2024