Legal overviews
Intellectual Wednesdays: Architecture works as an object of copyright
- Service: Intellectual Property (IP)
- Date: 30.10.2019
Works of architecture as an object of copyright – what the architect, developer, builder and investor need to know to protect their interests. Materials are prepared by experts of the IP practice at Capital Legal Services Elena Berger and Vladislav Scherbatykh.
Intellectual Wednesdays: online piracy, publishing houses and conscious society
- Service: Intellectual Property (IP)
- Date: 16.10.2019
In the regular column Intellectual Wednesdays (Season 2, Episode 6), IP experts at Capital Legal Services Practice Elena Berger and Vladislav Scherbatykh not only analyzed Eksmo’s latest case, but also explained why the fight against piracy is actually beneficial for society and culture.
Intellectual Wednesdays: is a monopoly on a generally used word possible?
- Services: Advertising / Marketing / Sponsorship, Intellectual Property (IP)
- Date: 02.10.2019
When and on what grounds can a competitor contest the registration of your company name as a trademark? And how do you retain your trademark when a competitor wants very badly to cancel it? Materials and examination of a case are prepared by experts of the IP practice at Capital Legal Services Elena Berger and Vladislav Scherbatykh.
Intellectual Wednesdays: everything about proper protection of creative solutions
- Service: Intellectual Property (IP)
- Date: 26.09.2019
Experts of Capital Legal Services Elena Berger and Vladislav Scherbatykh used intellectual property to protect a tourist symbol of Leningradskaya Region – Losiliy the Moose. Experts of the IP practice use this example to show how creative solutions can be protected from the time they come to light.
Team works. Novelties in class action lawsuits in the Russian Arbitration and Civil Procedural Codes
- Service: Labor and Migration Law
- Date: 24.09.2019
On October 1, 2019, new Federal Law No.191-FZ dated 18.07.2019 takes effect. This law introduces certain amendments to the Russian Commercial Arbitration Procedural Code governing particular issues tied to class action lawsuits in the commercial arbitration process, and introduced a similar institute to the Russian Civil Procedural Code.
Intellectual Wednesdays: Parallel Import – Short, Clear and Simple
- Service: Intellectual Property (IP)
- Date: 18.09.2019
In late September, Elena Berger, Head of the IP practice at Capital Legal Services, spoke at the IP Academy, a major Intellectual Property conference. In the regular column Intellectual Wednesdays, Elena Berger and Vladislav Scherbatykh explain in layman’s terms all the provisions on Elena’s presentation on parallel import issues.
Should intellectual property law combat lack of originality in music?
- Service: Intellectual Property (IP)
- Date: 11.09.2019
In the Intellectual Wednesdays column, experts of the IP practice at Capital Legal Services examined a copyright dispute and denial of a claim for 117 million rubles against Philipp Kirkorov. The material is prepared by Elena Berger and Vladislav Scherbatykh.
100% of cases won: myth or reality?
- Service: Commercial Arbitration and out-of-court dispute resolution
- Date: 16.08.2019
The legal market in Russia is highly competitive, and wartime, as we know, is a time to use any means to win, even such questionable means as doubtful advertising. You have probably seen such slogans as “Guaranteed win” and “No.1 company on the market.” Can such promises and numbers be trusted?
7 reasons why infrastructure projects stay on paper
- Service: Project financing / Public-Private Partnership
- Date: 10.07.2019
One in a hundred. This is not a chance to win the lottery and not a bet, but rather the percentage of infrastructure projects that have actually been implemented.
A new crime in the Russian Criminal Code — «Facilitating Anti-Russian Sanctions»?
- Service: Sanctions Compliance
- Date: 27.06.2019
On May 16, 2019 a draft law to add a new crime to the Russian Criminal Code: Article 281.1 “Facilitating Anti-Russian Sanctions” was submitted to the State Duma (it is not scheduled for hearing yet meaning that it might not move forward at all or be substantially altered). This new crime would punish, by imprisonment (up to 5 years), fines (up to 5 mln. rubles) and/or a ban on certain professional activities (for the term up 10 years), a number of activities that will have been deemed to have resulted in anti-Russian sanctions being imposed by a foreign country. The draft law would also amend the Russian Criminal Code to criminalize (under Article 128.1, Criminal Defamation) defamation of an entity or individual, if it resulted in sanctions against Russia or Russian citizens or entities.