New fast-changing reality offers new challenges. A number of companies from the so-called "unfriendly countries" have re-considered their trading and other business activities in Russia...

The expanding strategic partnership between Russia and China, reflected in growing bilateral trade, brings significant opportunities for Chinese businesses across sectors...

Franchising has become an extremely popular and alluring business model in Russia. According to the official statistics cited by the Federal Service for Intellectual Property (Rospatent) ...

Modern trends in all aspects of life call on us to be unique, to unveil one's individuality, to challenge ourselves, and to come up with breakthrough start-ups.

The problem of joint ownership of trademarks rarely surfaces on the Russian IP landscape. One of these cases elicits remembrance of a famous story "The Roads we Take" by O'Henry.

Intellectual property has its value if it is duly protected in a country where a company has its business interests.

The BBC registered TOP GEAR in 2015 underNo 538851 with priority of December 10, 2013, in Class 38.

Online trade in Russia is on the rise: in 2023 it amounted to 6.4 trillion rubles, but further increased by 41% in the first half of 2024 constituting 3.9 trillion rubles.

On 22 November 2021, Russia registered 13 IT corporations, including Google, Apply, Zoom, Twitter and TikTok, which must open offices in Russia by 2022...

Regional patent systems came into life and became popular many years ago. After the collapse of the USSR back in 1991 and the emergence of new independent countries...

In Russia, the definition of personal data is rather broad; any information which is directly or indirectly related to an identified or identifiable individual...

According to the Association of Internet Trade Companies (AKIT), in 2023 the volume of online trade in Russia increased by 27.5% and amounted to 6.4 trillion roubles.

In Russia,, an individual entrepreneur obtained trademark registration No. 926023 for DOGGYMAN (see below), Classes 03, 05, 21, and 35. A Japanese company, DoggyMan H.A. Co., Ltd.

We have become accustomed to the anti-IP initiatives of the Federal Anti-Monopoly Service (FAS) in Russia.

During the last few months some Western companies, experiencing external unfavorable factors, decided to re-consider their trading and other business activities in Russia, and in some cases announce total termination, ...

Offensive trademarks are designations that, by virtue of Sub-clause 2 of Clause 3 of Article 1483 of the Civil Code, may not be registered as trademarks if they represent designations or comprise elements detrimental to ...

It is difficult to imagine an IP issue that is more of a headache for trademark owners than parallel imports.

Keywords play an important role in e-marketing. After typing a specific product name, company name or brand in a search engine, potential customers and users may view specific offers and ...

Sanctions imposed on Russia because of the military conflict with the Ukraine are designed to stifle Russian economy. They do that to an extent. In some cases however they have undesirable...

On 1 March 2023, amendments to article 12 of the Federal Law on Personal Data No.152-ФЗ dated 27 July 2006 (PDL) established transfer impact assessments and filings with the data protection authority as the pre-conditions for cross-border personal data transfers. In certain cases...