Legal costs incurred by a client of «A.Zalesov & Partners» (ZTG Group) in a dispute over the termination of trademark protection due to non-use were recovered from a third party that abused its procedural rights
On October 21, 2026, the Intellectual Property Court approved the settlement agreement in case SIP-251/2025 and, by the same ruling, resolved the issue of recovering the legal costs of «A.Zalesov & Partners» client from the third party, since, had this party properly performed its procedural obligations, a significant portion of the legal costs would not have been incurred, and there would have been no need for this party to file an application for reconsideration of the court case based on new circumstances. This is a rare case of the application of Article 111 of the Arbitration Procedure Code of the Russian Federation, when legal costs are recovered from a party other than the losing party.