Maxima Legal has helped first investors join NSD's fight to lift sanctions
A group of owners of financial assets frozen by European securities depositories in connection with the inclusion of National Settlement Depository (NSD) in the EU sanctions lists, working together with Maxima Legal and foreign consultants, has submitted an application to the EU General Court on behalf of an investor to join NSD's claim to…
14.11.2022
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
Dmitry Uryakin analysed for CRE the current situation with the lease of retail space by suspended foreign companies and the prospects for resolving disputes with landlords
The majority of foreign companies which suspended their operations in Russia in February-March are planning to decide on their further actions by December. There are several options: withdrawal, rebranding/downbranding, transferring representative offices to interested parties from other countries, withdrawal from contracts with individual shops.…
11.11.2022
Dmitry Uryakin commented to Pravo.ru on the position of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation regarding the registration by a gardening cooperative of ownership rights to plots of land provided for collective joint ownership of its members
The Mechta gardening cooperative received a permanent perpetual right to a plot of land in 1993, most of which was subsequently transferred to the ownership of the dacha owners. At the same time, 2.41 ha, where mainly the paths between the dachas were located, became the collective joint property of the members of the gardening cooperative. In…
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
Konstantin Boytsov analysed for Forbes the legitimacy of the General Prosecutor's Office claims against one of Russia's largest tea manufacturers
Tea producer Matsestinsky Tea, which leases 538 hectares of land in Sochi's Khostinsky district from the city administration, as well as a number of farmers who received part of that land under an assignment agreement, must vacate the plots within a month. Such a ruling was issued by the Khostinsky district court at the suit of the Prosecutor…
03.11.2022
Maxim Ali has commented on the Monopoly umbrella brand controversy with Rospatent
The Monopoly Group, which is developing several projects in the cargo transportation sector, has challenged Rospatent's refusal to register the trademarks «МОНОПОЛИЯ.Грузы» (MONOPOLIA.Cargo), «МОНОПОЛИЯ.Сервис» (MONOPOLIA.Service), «МОНОПОЛИЯ.Почта» (MONOPOLIA.Mail) in the Intellectual Property Rights Court, as well as Rospatent's failure to…
12.10.2022
SergeI Bakeshin has assessed for Novy Prospect the impact of sanctions, businesses leaving Russia and the end of the bankruptcy moratorium on the number of disputes
Novy Prospect online publishing has pointed out that the Commercial Court of St Petersburg and the Leningrad Region is now hearing several disputes related to the imposed sanctions and the withdrawal of foreign companies from Russia. In particular, Severstal is suing Tikhvin Freight Car Building Plant for more than RUB 2 billion in debt. The…
10.10.2022
Maxim Ali has commented to Advokatskaya Gazeta on the conclusion of one of the key disputes in the field of big data
On September, 23, the Intellectual Property Rights Court issued a ruling on appeal which approved an amicable settlement between VKontakte and Double Data in a dispute over violation of exclusive neighbouring rights to the content of the social network's database (to read more about the dispute please visit this page >>>). Double Data…
28.09.2022
Pravo.ru once again ranked Maxima Legal among the leaders in the quantitative bankruptcy ranking
Pravo.ru legal online publishing has ranked the law firms which are more active and successful than their colleagues in such disputes. The research was based on the statistical analysis of more than 8,000 final decisions made by commercial courts from January 1 to December 31, 2021. The research of Pravo.ru once again certified…
27.09.2022