Maxim Ali has commented for the Pravo.ru on dispute about the removal of an irrelevant review from a corporate website
The commercial Court of the Ural District confirmed a client's right to demand the removal of a positive review from the website of a company for which it was given. In doing so, the court departed from a formal approach and used constitutional principles. In particular, the court recalled that the client has a constitutional right to freely…
29.10.2020
Sergei Bakeshin has commented for the Novy Prospekt on the repeated auction for the sale of assets of the bankrupt company founded by the former Vice-Governor of the Leningrad Region
In 2018, the Arbitration Court of St Petersburg and the Leningrad Region declared JSC Domostroitelny Kombinat № 5 (JSC DSK-5) as bankrupt. The company was part of GlavStroyComplex, founded by former Vice-Governor of the Leningrad Region Nikolay Pasyada, who was responsible for the development of the construction complex in the region. The total…
14.10.2020
Natalia Diatlova has assessed the probability of reimbursement of losses to the investor as part of the PPP for the Novy Prospekt
St Petersburg-based the Medical Investment Solutions Company refused a launch of several polyclinics on a specific type of PPP basis in the Republic of Komi (Russia). The regional authorities provided the investor with 95% less medical assistance, as well as failed to provide the initially promised workload of the medical institution. The Medical…
13.10.2020
Maxim Ali has evaluated for the Novy Prospect the chances of the shopping centers to change the city legislation on tax benefits
Five St Petersburg shopping malls asked the Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation to check for compliance the city law "On introduction of changes into some laws of St Petersburg about taxes and charges" with the federal law "On competition". The city bill adopted in July 2020 gives the right to a 50% relief on property tax for…
08.10.2020
Maxima Legal has obtained an invalidation of a utility model patent protecting a type of the USA military equipment
In 2018 one of the manufacturers in the tactical equipment market patented the technology of laser cutting for unloading vests of the MOLLE system. This technology was developed and patented earlier for the USA Armed Forces; the patentee is First Spear company. In Russia such system is well-known and already widely used by manufacturers in several…
28.09.2020
The Commercial Court sided with Maxima Legal's client in a complicated dispute on borrowing clothes design on a fashion market
The Commercial Court of St Petersburg and Leningrad Region delivered a judgement in a complicated dispute between two players of a Russian fashion market - Maxima Legal's client, ANSE, and its competitor working under the name Goodwill. The court considered Goodwill's claim to challenge the antitrust authority's decision, which in January…
14.09.2020
Maxim Ali commented on the Supreme Court's definition of lawsuits filed by Roskomnadzor to protect the rights of personal data subjects.
The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation published its ruling, in which it explained that the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology, and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor) has the right to file a civil lawsuit in the interests of a particular citizen for the protection of his rights as a subject of personal data. The…
24.08.2020
Maxim Ali has commented on the patent dispute of pharmaceutical manufacturers for the DP
St Petersburg-based company BIOCAD and Israeli Yeda Research and Development reached during the Court an agreement on the joint use of a patent for the drug to treat multiple sclerosis. In 2018 after registering the generic of its own production, BIOCAD challenged the know-how of the Israeli company at Rospatent. In response, in 2019, Yeda…
22.08.2020
Maxim Ali has commented on the court practice of large companies brand protection
Maxim Ali, Head of IP/IT practice at Maxima Legal, told the Russian Agency for Legal and Judicial Information (RAPSI) about the specifics of the court practice of protecting trademarks of large companies from copying by competitors. "The amount of compensation in some cases does not exceed the costs of a dispute (given the tendency to…
19.08.2020
Maxim Ali commented on the growth of digital signature fraud for DP
According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, in 2019 the number of crimes with the use of IT-technologies was about half of all registered in the country offences. Most often such crimes are committed with the illegal registration and use of electronic signatures. Attackers use several basic methods: from direct registration of the…
19.08.2020