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Last summer a law that legalized parallel imports for the entire year of 2022 was signed in Russia. The mechanism of parallel imports will be extended throughout 2023, and it is intended to provide Russian citizens with foreign scarce and original goods under external sanction pressure. Nonetheless, the adopted law does not apply to all goods automatically. Products under particular brands may be ...

In today's situation in Russia, the monitoring of IP rights becomes extremely important. This is not the first time, when IP right holders are facing the risks of possible IP piracy. In the early 2000s, we had to fight mass trademark squatting. Many trademark owners were successful in that fight; however, that required many efforts and resources. Currently, we are dealing with a significant nu...

The law on accession of the Russian Federation to the Geneva Act of the Lisbon Agreement on Appellations of Origin and Geographical Indications was signed by the Russian President.Lisbon Agreement on the protection of appellations of origin and their international registration was adopted in 1958, and the Geneva Act of the Agreement was approved in 2015. It aims to improve the international system...

Eurasian industrial designs are a completely novel type of intellectual property rights in the Eurasian patent system. In March 2021, the Protocol on Protection of Industrial Designs under Eurasian Patent Convention (EPC) entered into force. In April 2021, the Administrative Counsel of the Eurasian Patent Organization (EAPO) approved the Instruction to EPC regulating the unified industrial design ...