Maxim Ali has commented on key recent trademark disputes for Pravo.ru
At the request of Pravo.ru, Maxima Legal, Head of Intellectual Property and Information Law Practice, Maxima Ali, spoke about some of the most notable recent trademark cases. According to Maxim, as the array of such cases accumulates, an increasingly interesting and diverse practice appears, which is sometimes no less important for lawyers to make…
15.05.2020
Maxim Ali has commented on an experimental law for artificial intelligence in Moscow for Advokatskaya Gazeta
On 1 July 2020 a new law will enter into force in Moscow that provides for a five-year experimental legal regime aimed at supporting the development of artificial intelligence. The main objective of the experiment is to test how artificial intelligence technologies work, in which areas of the economy and socially where it could be used. Based on…
06.05.2020
Maxim Ali has discussed with Pravo.ru how decisions of the Supreme Court have influenced judicial practice in intellectual property
On 23 April 2020, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation approved clarifications on the application of the fourth part of the Civil Code, codifying the established judicial practice on intellectual property. The document is already widely used by lower courts and is cited in almost every court decision. At the request of Pravo.ru, the Head of…
05.05.2020
Maxim Ali has commented on the FAS draft law to extend antitrust regulation to agreements and actions to exercise exclusive rights
The Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation has proposed to expand legislation on the protection of competition. In particular, the current rules of law are proposed to supplement Article 11.2, which establishes restrictions on agreements between persons engaged in the sale of goods on the same market that contain the results of…
05.03.2020
Maxim Ali has assessed for RBC the prospect of using insolvency in relation to the violation of intellectual property rights
Two years ago, the British company Entertainment One UK Limited, which owns the rights to the characters in the animated series “Masked Heroes” through the court, won more than 1 million rubles in compensation for the illegal use of its images. However, Baltic Circus, which violated the intellectual property rights, is still evading payments, and…
28.02.2020
Maxim Ali has criticised a bill governing Big Data
The Russian Ministry of Communications and Media has submitted for public consultation a bill amending the Law on Information. The amendments will affect the regulation of Big Data and will consolidate the basic concepts “Big Data”, “Big Data Processing” and “Big Data Operator”. However, as Maxim Ali, Head of the IP/IT Practice at Maxim Legal,…
25.02.2020
Maxim Ali has talked with the Kaliningrad news portal about registering trademarks
The administration of a cathedral, one of the iconic sights of Kaliningrad, has registered the cathedral as a trademark. Since 2019, businesspeople who wish to use the image of the cathedral for commercial purposes are required to purchase rights to do so; the cost of which depends on the retail cost of the product and varies from 2.5 to 10…
14.02.2020
Maxim Ali has commented on the proceedings with the Sever-Metropol franchise for Delovoy Petersburg
In 2017 entrepreneur Vadim Dolgoborodov acquired the right to use the Sever-Metropol trademarks and the secret to the production of branded products. In February last year, representatives of the brand identified a number of alleged breaches and, despite their prompt resolution, sought to terminate the contract unilaterally. In the court of first…
05.02.2020
Maxim Ali has commented for Pravo.ru on the position of the armed forces in relation to online reviews of doctors
The Supreme Court ordered a case to be reheard which involved a doctor who sought to delete a profile, shown on a review site, Prodoctorov.ru. The lower courts sided with the defendant, taking into account the public nature of the information used about the full name, position and place of work, as well as the registration of the site as a media…
03.02.2020
Maxim Ali has assessed for Kommersant the emergence of laws governing the digital economy
According to research, the digitalisation of the economy can increase Russia's GDP by almost a third in the coming years. In 2017, the Russian government approved the Digital Economy of the Russian Federation programme. Today the laws are being developed which should become the basis of the digital economy. According to Maxima Ali, Head of the…
30.01.2020