Maxim Ali helped "Pravo.ru" compile a list of the top intellectual property court cases for 2021
The Pravo.ru portal has prepared an overview of the most significant court decisions in intellectual property cases in 2021. One of them was a dispute between VKontakte and Double Data, which used its own algorithms to collect and use for commercial purposes the data of users of the social network without the consent of the site. According to…
10.01.2022
Maxim Ali told "Advokatskaya Gazeta" about legal and judicial changes in IP&IT in 2021
"Advokatskaya Gazeta" prepared a publication in which experts talked about the most important changes in intellectual property legislation in 2021, as well as the latest trends in judicial practice. One of the innovations is the transition to the electronic certificates for intellectual property objects. Amendments to Part IV of the Civil Code…
29.12.2021
Maxim Ali has shared his impressions on IP/IT development in 2021 with RAPSI
Maxim Ali, Partner and Head of Intellectual Property and Information Law practice at Maxima Legal, has shared an observation on the transformation of the legal services market with the Russian Legal Information Agency (RAPSI) "The intellectual property market continues to evolve. We see this well in interviews. Questions which were…
28.12.2021
Maxim Ali has commented for Izvestia on court ruling on lawsuit against illegal mining
Commercial Court of the Irkutsk Region has dismissed the claim of the Church of Evangelical Christians "Blagodat" for compensation of 1.1 million rubles, which the organization paid to Irkutskenergosbyt. Having identified signs of mining, Irkutskenergosbyt switched the Church of Evangelical Christians "Blagodat" to a different category…
23.12.2021
Maxim Ali analysed changes in digital asset regulation for RBC+ Petersburg
The Law on Digital Financial Assets came into force in Russia in 2021, introducing the concept of digital currency and describing the key characteristics of the asset. Maxim Ali, Head of Intellectual Property and Information Technologies practice at Maxima Legal, spoke specifically for RBC+ Petersburg about changes in the regulation of the…
10.12.2021
Maxima Legal has expanded its presence on the Pravo.ru-300 rating and entered top-4 law firms by the total number of industry awards and top-7 by the number of first level awards
On December, 2 the results of the key Russian rating of law firms, Pravo.ru-300, were published. Maxima Legal has once again proved the high level of expertise of its practice areas and collected a total of 18 industry awards, a third of which were "gold". It should be noted, that the firm entered TOP-7 of legal advisers by the…
03.12.2021
Maxim Ali told Vedomosti about the influence of the pandemic on legal business
Maxim Ali, Partner, Head of Intellectual Property and Information Technologies practice at Maxima Legal, described to Vedomosti the impact of the pandemic on the legal business. In particular, Maxim noted that "many industries are not in the best condition, there is inflation everywhere - all this is reflected on the demand for legal services".…
25.11.2021
Maxim Ali helped Pravo.ru to compile a list of the main mistakes made by lawyers
The Pravo.ru portal has prepared an article in which representatives of law firms have compiled a list of mistakes most often made by lawyers during their professional activities. According to Maxim Ali, Partner at Maxima Legal, the unwillingness of experienced professionals to enhance their skills and their habit to rely on their experience…
17.11.2021
Delovoy Peterburg once again noted Maxima Legal in its annual Legal Rating
The Delovoy Peterburg newspaper, a key business publication of North-West Russia, presented the results of its own annual Legal Rating, in which the publication and legal firms choose the best legal advisors in the city. In 2021 Natalia Demina, Head of Private Wealth Practice at Maxima Legal, was named first in the Breakthrough of the Year…
16.11.2021
Maxim Ali had assessed judicial prospects for priority patenting of "anticoronavirus" inventions
In April 2020, the Federal Service for Intellectual Property (Rospatent) launched a pilot programme to give priority to applications for "anti-coronavirus" inventions. Thus, Rospatent had already granted more than 300 such patents by September 2021. However, according to Maxim Ali, Partner and Head of IP/IT practice at Maxima Legal, this pandemic…
03.11.2021