News

Andrey Akimov in the Court for Intellectual Property Rights managed to refer two cases on "parallel imports" for a new trial to the arbitration court of first instance

Previously the courts of first and appeal instances ruled to dismiss the claims of the plaintiff in the said cases whose interests were represented by our firm.

PATENTUS lawyers succeeded in sustaining a decision on "ARAGATS" trademark in the Court of Appeal

Dmitry Markanov, the Head of Litigation Department, and Tatiana Sergunina, the PATENTUS’ lawyer, represented the interests of LLC "Araratsky vinny zavod" and JSC "Firma VASTOM" in the Court for Intellectual Property Rights in respect of the case on recovering compensation for the unlawful use of "ARAGATS" trademark.

PATENTUS lawyers succeeded in sustaining a court ruling on invalidating the decision of OFAS for KBR

Dmitry Markanov attended the hearing of the Sixteenth Arbitration Court of Appeal during which he sustained the ruling of the Arbitration Court for the Kabardino-Balkar Republic (KBR) taken earlier in favor of our client to invalidate the decision of the Office of the Federal Antimonopoly Service for KBR against LLC «Pervy Piteyny Zavod». Alexander Baranchikov represents the client’s interests in this project which also includes a number of related legal and administrative cases.

Dmitry Markanov made his comment for "Kommersant" newspaper

Dmitry Markanov has commented on the news saying that rock band Led Zeppelin was accused of plagiarism in the USA. Rock band Spirit has accused Led Zeppelin of coping "Stairway to Heaven" song’s tune from their "Taurus" song.

Alexey Mikhailov made his comment for Life News

Alexey Mikhailov has commented on the news saying that Russia and China are planning to sign an agreement on joint development of a new heavy-lift helicopter.

PATENTUS lawyers reached a settlement agreement with the French company Lessafre

Tatiana Sergunina, a lawyer at PATENTUS, represented our client with the approval of the settlement agreement in the case of cancelling «VIVO» trademark due to its non-use.

The lawyers of PATENTUS will be speaking at the annual conference "St. Petersburg Collegial Readings – 2016"

On June 22-24, 2016 St. Petersburg will host the annual scientific and practical conference "St. Petersburg Collegial Readings — 2016".

PATENTUS team were attending the 138th INTA’s Annual Meeting in Orlando (USA)

On May 21-25, 2016 Orlando (USA) hosted the 138th INTA’s (the International Trademark Association) Annual Meeting. This year’s conference attracted a record number of participants — more than 10,000.00 of 149 countries from all over the world.

IP professionals of PATENTUS attended a themed meeting held by Rospatent

Anna Atyagshina and Galina Sokolova, IP counsels of the Trademark Department at PATENTUS, and Tatiana Sergunina, the company lawyer, were attending a themed meeting dealing with the appellations of origin of goods organized by Rospatent and hold on May 25, 2016.

How Technology is Changing Life and the Law

The Lawyers of PATENTUS attended the 2016 ITechLaw World Technology Law Conference held by the International Technology World Association in Miami from the 18th to 20th of May, 2016.

The lawyers of PATENTUS managed to have an International Trademark cancelled

Tatiana Sergunina represented the producer of tablets for dishwashers «Vortex» before the Court for Intellectual Property Rights. In August, 2013 the manufacturer filed an application «Vortex» trademark with Rospatent.

PATENTUS will be attending the annual INTA Meeting 2016

From the 21st to the 25th of May in Orlando (USA) there will be held the 138th Annual INTA Meeting. It will be attended by more than 9700 IP specialists as well as the entrepreneurship and government agencies from around the world.