Maxim Ali has commented for the DP on Biocad's attempt to challenge a one of AstraZeneca's patents
Biocad (St Petersburg-based drug manufacturer) is trying to challenge the decision of Rospatent (Federal Service for Intellectual Property) in the Intellectual Rights Court. The Service had perviously refused to cancel the patent of Sweden's company AstraZeneca AB. The patented composition of fulvestrant is used to manufacture a drug for the…
25.01.2021
Maxim Ali has assessed the prospects of the Supreme Court's consideration of the amount of compensation for infringement of exclusive rights
Courts of three instances fined an entrepreneur for selling a device with a logo similar to Rikor Electronics trademark. The appellate court and then Court for Intellectual Property Rights awarded 180,000 rubles compensation for infringement of someone else's exclusive rights given that the cost of the goods sold was 165 rubles. The courts pointed…
18.01.2021
Konstantin Boytsov has explained for the Kommersant how changes of territorial planning documents effect on construction permits
The Committee of a town-planning policy of the Leningrad region has approved new land use and development rules of Murino town. A land plot on which Renta Invest developer has planned to build a restaurant complex was changed its allowable use by a new edition of the document. The implementation of 200 million rubles project is on hold now. А…
12.01.2021
Maxim Ali has provided his comments to the Novy Prospect on the prospects of Russian legal market in 2021
Maxim Ali, Partner at Maxima Legal, has shared with the Novy Prospect online edition his vision of the development of the Russian legal services market in 2021 "The pandemic affects the legal market in different ways, and it's quite difficult to predict which factors will take over. On the one hand the economic situation is very difficult.…
11.01.2021
The team from the IP/IT Practice at Maxima Legal has summarized for OneTrust DataGuidance key changes and trends in personal data regulation in Russia
The Federal Law of 27 July 2006 No. 152-FZ on Personal Data ('the Law on Personal Data') came into effect more than 15 years ago. However, changes to legislation in the sphere of data protection are still being introduced at a rapid rate. The past two years demonstrate a general tightening of data protection regulation, particularly in relation to…
30.12.2020
Dmitry Uryakin has commented for the DP on the disputes of the St. Petersburg billionaire's companies with VEB.RF state corporation for a total amount of almost 24 billion rubles
The Commercial Court of the Moscow District upheld the decision of previous court instances to recover 16.2 million euros and 2.096 billion rubles from JSC Talion and Lesosyrovoye Obozrenie (LSO) LLC. The companies were the guarantors of Sovremennye Tekhnologii Trebstva (STOD) LLC for the loans of 178.894 million euros and 5.271 billion rubles…
25.12.2020
Konstantin Boytsov has explained to the DP why premises owners may be denied the right to appeal against decisions of general meetings of owners
The State Housing Inspection (State executive agency of housing supervision over the activities of differenttypes of housing management organizations in the subjects of the Russian Federation) intends to appeal to the Supreme Court of Russian Federation the verdict of lower court instances according to which the legality of the decision…
18.12.2020
Sergei Bakeshin has commented on the dispute about the payment of a penalty three times higher than the principal debt
On 16th of December the Commercial Court of Saint-Petersburg and Leningrad Region will start consideration of the claim of Unix Medical Company, bankrupt Ekaterinburg medical equipment supplier, against New Construction Technologies, St Petersburg construction company. The claims include 61.1 million roubles debt and 194.5 million roubles……
14.12.2020
Maxim Ali has commented for the Kommersant on the chances to appeal against the refusal of the Supreme Court to consider the complaint
The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation has refused the former owner of the International Bank of St Petersburg (IBSP bank) Sergei Bazhenov to consider an appeal against the decisions of previous court instances. Through his subsidiary JSC Triumph (which owned around…
14.12.2020
Sergei Bakeshin has commented for the DP on the bankruptcy case of one of the assets of a St Petersburg billionaire
N. E. P. S. Group of Companies has filed a bankruptcy petition to the Commercial Court of St Petersburg and the Leningrad Region against Granit Group LLC, an asset of billionaire Andrei Yevdokimov. The plaintiff is trying to get 11.3 million rubles debt through bankruptcy proceedings. According to Head of Dispute Resolution and Insolvency…
10.12.2020