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23 June 2015

Sergey Vasiliev, Ph.D, Senior lawyer (Gorodissky & Partners, Moscow), gave a presentation “Global and local “patent wars” in IT field”  at the Round table “Innovative economy and high-technology business” at the VIII Cheboksary Economic Forum “Regions: new sources of economic development”. The Round table gathered over 70 attendees from state institutions, business circles and mass media.

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18 June - 19 June 2015

Inna Rybchak, Paralegal (Gorodissky & Partners, Moscow) attended the Seminar on the Madrid system held by WIPO in Geneva. Topic trademark issues such as further development of the Madrid system, peculiarities of international application filing, substantial examining, preliminary refuse and response to it and other issues were highlighted during the seminar.

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10 June - 13 June 2015

Alexander Nesterov, Partner, Trademark Attorney, Valery Lyzhin, Trademark attorney, and Evgeniya Smolnikova, Senior Lawyer (all of Gorodissky & Partners, Moscow), attended the 34th ECTA Conference on protection and use of trademarks in the European Union, held in Hamburg. The Conference gathered more than 1000 delegates from around the world.

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6 June 2015

Sergey Medvedev, PhD, LLM, Senior lawyer (Gorodissky & Partners, Moscow) spoke on “Protection of brand as an IP subject-matter: brand indentifiers; counterfeiting and legal protection of brands” in the course of “Brand management” professional upgrading program for students at the Higher school of marketing and business development (Higher school of economics, Moscow). The lecture highlighted legal and practical aspects of trademark registration, use and non-use thereof, TM rights disposal, as well as counterfeiting\grey import suppression, inclusion of trademarks into the Customs Register and other issues.

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3 June 2015

Gorodissky & Partners hosted the seminar “Deoffshorization: practical results for IP deals” where the firm specialists Valery Narezhny, PhD, counsel, Nikolay Karagodin, PhD, IP valuer, Nikolay Kharovulo, lawyer, Sergey Medvedev, PhD, LLM, Senior lawyer  specialized on IP deals and taxation considered certain issues concerning the choice of jurisdiction for allocation of IP subjects and getting the respective revenues in view of the amended Russian legislation.

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