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
Maxim Ali has commented on the dispute over illegal copying of Rosneft trademarks.
Since 2014 the dispute between Rosneft Oil Company and the owner of TTK Rosneft Altai gas stations over the illegal use of trademarks protecting the design of Rosneft gas stations has been going. The owner of TTK Rosneft Altai gas stations copied the color scheme and names used by Rosneft Oil Company. The Federal Antimonopoly Service of the…
17.08.2020
Sergei Bakeshin has commented on claims against the St Petersburg Department of the Interior Ministry in the amount of 1.3 billion rubles
Megasnab-service LLC, one of the defendants in the criminal case of a fraud, which was initiated by the police in 2013, sent to the Arbitration Court 13 claims against the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of St Petersburg and the Leningrad Region. The plaintiff demands compensation for the damage caused by his version during the…
03.08.2020
Maxima Legal got the National Bank TRUST preliminary qualification
Maxima Legal confirmed the team`s high level in sphere of Litigation and was included by the National Bank TRUST to the list of qualified counterparties which will be inviting to participate in the procurement of legal services in this area. Among the key requirements for pre-selection were such as factors as the integrity of the company, the…
30.07.2020
Litigation team members at Maxima Legal have commented on the biggest lawsuits of the week for the Delovoy Peterburg
The Delovoy Peterburg newspaper has published a review of the largest lawsuits of the week with explanatory notes of Maxima Legal experts. In particular, Dmitry Uryakin, associate at Maxima Legal's Dispute Resolution and Bankruptcy Practice, commented on claims from Power Machines PJSC to Lonas Tekhnologiya JSC for 1.2 billion rubles each. Lonas…
30.07.2020