2nd International Conference "Protection of IP Rights"

Sergey Medvedev, PhD, LLM, Senior Lawyer, and Stanislav Rumyantsev, PhD, Senior Lawyer (both of Gorodissky & Partners, Moscow), attended the 2nd International Conference "Protection of IP Rights" held by Business Way Forum at Marriott Courtyard Moscow City Center.

Stanislav Rumyantsev spoke on “Personal data protection at Internet: international compliance issues” within the session “Intellectual Property in the Era of Digitalization and the Digital Economy: Global Challenges and Trends”. Sergey Medvedev gave presentation on “Pledge of exclusive rights: theory and practice” in the framework of the session “Transactions, Taxation and Management in the Field of Intellectual Property”. Both presentations caused great interest among the participants and were accompanied by numerous questions.

The conference discussed current legal and practical aspects of IP protection, suppression unfair competition and abuse of rights, protection IT projects, combating illegal production and turnover of counterfeit goods, advertising and media, and also touched upon the major issues in patent law. More than 120 lawyers, consultants and specialists whose professional activities related to intellectual property, information technology and media law were present.