Legal protection of three-dimensional trademarks: comments of the Senior Partner at «A.Zalesov & Partners» Patent & Law Firm Irina Ozolina for Garant.ru portal

The Russian IP Court has ruled in favor of the client of «A.Zalesov and Partners» Patent & Law Firm, having invalidated the decision of Rospatent, as well as obliging him to amend the international registration of the client's trademark.

The XXV International Conference of Rospatent «Formation of the ecosystem of intellectual property» took place on September 29-30, 2021.

We are glad to announce that Anna Kakurnikova has joined our team.

On September 27, 2021, the Fifteenth Arbitration Court of Appeal upheld the Decision of the Arbitration Court of the Krasnodar region to bring the importer of goods imitating «Kinder Joy» products using the «SURPRISE» trademarks in Cyrillic and Latin to administrative liability following article 14.10 of the Russian Code of Administrative Offenses.

On September 28, 2021, after almost one-year consideration of a trademark infringement dispute, the Arbitration Court of St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region satisfied the claims of «Soremartec» S.A. («Ferrero» Group) seeking for prohibition of illegal use of Raffaello trademarks and claiming for monetary compensation for the past infringement.

In 2012 and in 2014, a client of «A.Zalesov & Partners» Patent & Law Firm - a company of «Ericsson» group - filed two patent infringement suits against a Russian affiliate of the «TCL» company («Alcatel» group) based on standard essential patent protecting a method of signal coding. These cases were the first (and are the only so far) patent infringement disputes in Russia based on SEP (standard essential patent).