St Petersburg legal community named Maxima Legal one of the best law firms in the city, and Leonid Filanovskiy was named the Advocate of the Year
For the fourth time Delovoy Peterburg newspaper summarised the results of "Yurtop: Team Scoring" the rating, a survey of St Petersburg based law companies on the assessments of the market participants. The opinion of the professional community once again confirmed the level of Maxima Legal's expertise. The company was ranked among the…
24.04.2024
Kirill Katkov commented for DP on the introduction of fines for spam calls
The President of the Russian Federation has signed a federal law introducing liability for intrusive and misleading advertising calls. Fines for companies will be from RUB 300 thousand to 1 mn, for officials - from RUB 20 thousand to 100 thousand, for individuals - from RUB 10 thousand to 20 thousand. The fines for banks and microfinance…
10.04.2024
Kirill Katkov has commented for Telesputnik on the blogger's exclusion from the list of foreign agents
The Russian Ministry of Justice has removed Nikolai Sobolev, one of the local YouTube bloggers, from the register of foreign agents. The reason for his inclusion in the blacklist, where the blogger had been for just over a year, was his statements about a special military operation. Kirill Katkov, Associate at Maxima Legal, reminded Telesputnik…
05.04.2024
Kirill Katkov has explained to Pravo.ru how to obtain consent to register a name as a brand name
Many people from different professions register their names or pseudonyms as trademarks and use them in the name of their business. In this case, the right holder may be, for example, a label with which the musician works, or a company - a business partner of the entrepreneur who has already acquired a certain degree of popularity. However, in…
03.04.2024
Dmitry Uryakin has commented for Pravo.ru on the dispute over legal protection of similar brands that reached the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation
Molodie i Krasivie LLC, which develops "Lepim and Varym" (Mould and boil) international chain of dumplings restraunts and owns a series of combined service marks "Lepim and Varym svezhie pelmeni" (Mould and boil fresh dumplings), asked a court to prohibit Spar cookery shops from using the word combinations "Lepim Varym" and "Pelmeni…
21.03.2024
Kirill Katkov has explained to DP what is covered by Roskomnadzor's ban on popularisation of VPN services
On 1st of March the Roskomnadzor's new order will come into force. According to the document popularisation of VPN services as well as posting of materials with instructions on how to bypass blocking can become grounds for the inclusion of Internet resources in the Unified Register of Banned Sites. In the agency`s opinion, the resources…
12.02.2024
Dmitry Uryakin told DP whether the paint and varnish manufacturer has a chance to protect its brand from a patent troll
The Intellectual Property Court has accepted a lawsuit filed by Azamat Ibatullin, an individual entrepreneur from Ufa, requesting the early termination of protection of the "Prospect" trademark in two classes of the International Classification of Goods and Services - class 35 (sale of goods through intermediaries) and class 42 (sale of…
09.02.2024
Kirill Katkov has assessed the position of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation on the calculation of compensation for unlawful brand use
The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation reminded that for the unlawful use of a trade mark, the infringer may be charged double the income that he derived or only intended to derive from the sale of the counterfeit. However, the judges clarified: this type of damages can be applied when the counterfeit goods are actually available in the…
07.02.2024
Maxima Legal's official telegram channel was included in the list of the most reputable legal channels
Maxima Legal's telegram channel has been ranked among the Top 100 legal channels and Top 50 corporate legal channels in terms of audience engagement, taking 47th and 28th places respectively. The research was conducted by Veta Expert Group, the Flavita bureau and more than 80 legal market experts. For the first time, about 450 legal telegram…
30.01.2024
Telecom Daily has quoted Kirill Katkov in the article "YouTube wants to make money in Russia again"
Google LLC, the Russian subsidiary of the US Google, is in bankruptcy, and its total debt to creditors exceeds RUB 20 bn. After February 2022, Google-owned video hosting YouTube limited monetisation for Russian bloggers, and in the spring of 2023 it switched it off altogether. However, in autumn 2023, Rospatent received three trademark…
26.01.2024