Olga Novinskaya has written for an international legal blogs about the latest changes in the regulation of personal data in Russia
Olga Novinskaya, junior associate of IP/IT Practice at Maxima Legal has written to ILN IP Insider and LexBlog international legal blogs an article about the most significant Russian news in the field of personal data regulation. In particular, the expert spoke about the draft laws to combat abuses in the collection of consumer personal data,…
11.11.2020
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
Maxima Legal has managed to recover in favor of the client his court expenses for 7 times higher than average payments
Maxima Legal lawyers have helped Svetlaya Muzyka (Light Music) to recover around 90% of the cost of the intellectual property dispute. The evidence of the volume, complexity and duration of legal services to support the trial provided by Maxima Legal team convinced court of several instances to oblige the opponent to cover the client's court…
28.10.2020
Maxim Ali has commented for the Kommersant on Federal Antimonopoly Service`s directive to remove alcohol advertising from popular Russian blog
Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation in Leningrad region has ordered the owner of Nastya Ivleeva YouTube channel to stop the violation of the Federal Law "On Advertising". The release of the show, which raised questions from the antimonopoly authority, received almost 2.3 million views. It shows the preparation of an…
02.10.2020
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
Maxim Ali held an online seminar on intellectual property protection in cooperation with St Petersburg Unified Entrepreneurship Center
Maxim Ali, Head of IP/IT practice at Maxima Legal practice became an expert of the online seminar "Why and how does business need to protect intellectual property?" organized by St Petersburg Unified Entrepreneurship Center on September 22. The said who and why should protect intellectual property, how to build a strategy, how to protect the brand…
22.09.2020
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