Maxim Ali has commented on the FAS draft law to extend antitrust regulation to agreements and actions to exercise exclusive rights
The Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation has proposed to expand legislation on the protection of competition. In particular, the current rules of law are proposed to supplement Article 11.2, which establishes restrictions on agreements between persons engaged in the sale of goods on the same market that contain the results of…
05.03.2020
Maxim Ali has assessed for RBC the prospect of using insolvency in relation to the violation of intellectual property rights
Two years ago, the British company Entertainment One UK Limited, which owns the rights to the characters in the animated series “Masked Heroes” through the court, won more than 1 million rubles in compensation for the illegal use of its images. However, Baltic Circus, which violated the intellectual property rights, is still evading payments, and…
28.02.2020
Maxim Ali has criticised a bill governing Big Data
The Russian Ministry of Communications and Media has submitted for public consultation a bill amending the Law on Information. The amendments will affect the regulation of Big Data and will consolidate the basic concepts “Big Data”, “Big Data Processing” and “Big Data Operator”. However, as Maxim Ali, Head of the IP/IT Practice at Maxim Legal,…
25.02.2020
Maxim Ali has talked with the Kaliningrad news portal about registering trademarks
The administration of a cathedral, one of the iconic sights of Kaliningrad, has registered the cathedral as a trademark. Since 2019, businesspeople who wish to use the image of the cathedral for commercial purposes are required to purchase rights to do so; the cost of which depends on the retail cost of the product and varies from 2.5 to 10…
14.02.2020
Maxim Ali has commented on the proceedings with the Sever-Metropol franchise for Delovoy Petersburg
In 2017 entrepreneur Vadim Dolgoborodov acquired the right to use the Sever-Metropol trademarks and the secret to the production of branded products. In February last year, representatives of the brand identified a number of alleged breaches and, despite their prompt resolution, sought to terminate the contract unilaterally. In the court of first…
05.02.2020
Maxim Ali has commented for Pravo.ru on the position of the armed forces in relation to online reviews of doctors
The Supreme Court ordered a case to be reheard which involved a doctor who sought to delete a profile, shown on a review site, Prodoctorov.ru. The lower courts sided with the defendant, taking into account the public nature of the information used about the full name, position and place of work, as well as the registration of the site as a media…
03.02.2020
Maxim Ali has assessed for Kommersant the emergence of laws governing the digital economy
According to research, the digitalisation of the economy can increase Russia's GDP by almost a third in the coming years. In 2017, the Russian government approved the Digital Economy of the Russian Federation programme. Today the laws are being developed which should become the basis of the digital economy. According to Maxima Ali, Head of the…
30.01.2020
Darina Lysachkina has prepared for ILN and JD Supra a review of key changes in the regulation of the Russian IP / IT sector for 2019
At the request of the International Lawyers Network, Darina Lysachkina, Junior Lawyer of Intellectual Property and Information Law Practice of Maxima Legal, has prepared for JD Supra a review of the most significant IP / IT events that occurred in Russia in 2019. In particular, Darina wrote about the emergence of a new object in the intellectual…
30.01.2020
News Highlights: IP&IT Novelties In Russia Of 2019 // JD Supra — January 2020
At the request of the International Lawyers Network, Darina Lysachkina, Junior Lawyer of Intellectual Property and Information Law Practice of Maxima Legal, has prepared for JD Supra a review of the most significant IP / IT events that occurred in Russia in 2019. In particular, Darina wrote about the emergence of a new object in the intellectual…
30.01.2020
Maxim Ali has talked with RBC about the willingness of companies to violate advertising legislation
The St Petersburg department of FAS Russia fined McDonalds Corporation 110,000 roubles for a lack of consumer-relevant information in its advertisement. Stating that on the advertising banner of a combo lunch for a fixed price there was an image of sauce, which in fact was not part of the offer. This is not the first time that a restaurant’s…
28.01.2020