A Novosibirsk company, a sales representative of a foreign company in the Russian Federation, selling imported products, including conveyor grain dryers, filed a claim with the Arbitration Court of the Altai Territory against a client of the «A.Zalesov & Partners» - an Altai manufacturer of industrial equipment for construction, agriculture and other industries, leader in sales of conveyor grain dryers - for the infringement of patents for three utility models, the recovery of compensation, and the prohibition of the products' introduction into civil circulation and the publication of the decision on the company's official website.
The proceeding lasted nearly two years, with a huge amount of evidence presented, a commission expert examination conducted, experts questioned, and the Plaintiff filed a motion to impose a fine on one of the farms for delaying the examination. The case was complicated by the fact that the Plaintiff, through the Court, demanded that an examination be conducted to a third party to which one of the client's grain dryers had been supplied, but objecting to the farms proposed by the client of «A.Zalesov & Partners». However, with the lack of prior written consent from such parties, the examination was delayed, given the use of the equipment in the daily operations of agricultural companies. Moreover, under similar circumstances, the Plaintiff had already succeeded in winning a number of cases regarding infringement of the same patents against another manufacturer, in which the same expert, appointed to conduct the examination in the present case in tandem with another expert institution, participated.
Having assessed all the evidence presented in the case, the Arbitration Court of the Altai Territory in its decision of March 11, 2026, rejected the claims, also found that the product produced by the client of «A.Zalesov & Partners» did not use every feature of the utility models given in the independent claims of the patents and, accordingly, established the absence of infringement of any of the Plaintiff's patents.
At the same time, the lawyers of «A.Zalesov & Partners» managed to prove the lack of novelty of one of the Plaintiff’s patents, against which an objection was filed with Rospatent.
«A.Zalesov & Partners» proudly defends the interests of Russian companies, leaders in the agricultural sector, from inconsistent claims of patent infringement.
The client's interests in the dispute were represented by the head of the intellectual property practice Aleksey Zalesov, partner of the intellectual property practice Maria Makhlina, patent attorney Ivan Istomin, and senior associate Julia Kolomytseva.