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5 February 2015

Gorodissky & Partners made the 5th IP webinar. Sergey Medvedev PhD, LLM, Software/Database Attorney, Senior Lawyer gave presentation «Software Protection in Russia — Life of It After Civil Law Reform» where he focused on the recent changes in the Russian software and database protection as well as on amendments to national IP/IT licensing system associated with implementation of free licenses, open licenses and other related commercial tools.

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28 January 2015

Valery Narezhny, Counsel (Gorodissky & Partner, Moscow), gave a live interview to the City-FM radio station regarding the Draft Bill announced by the Russian Ministry of Labour which would allow the Pension Fund and Fund of Social Insurance to implement unscheduled inspections of ratepayers in case of revealing their payment so called ‘gray salaries’.

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22 December 2014

Valery Narezhny, PhD, Counsel, and Nikolay Harivulo, Lawyer, (both from Gorodissky & Partners, Moscow), with Polina Ulovkina, Tax Policy Department,Russian Ministry of Finance, and Igor Basargin, Partner, Incor Alliance, spoke at the seminar: «Deoffshorization: new rules of the game», held in the Moscow office of Gorodissky and Partners.

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18 December 2014

At the Annual meeting of Gorodissky & Partners, Valery Medvedev, Managing Partner, opened the program by giving the principal accomplishments of the year which included the major 2014 professional achievements of the firm and the outstanding contributions by patent/trademark attorneys and lawyers.

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10 December 2014

Vladimir Trey, Partner, Trademark Attorney, and Evgeniya Smolnikova, Senior Lawyer, Trademark Attorney (both from Gorodissky & Partners, Moscow), attended the International conference «When Trademarks Overlap with Other IP Rights» held by INTA with the support of GRUR. The patchwork of IP rights protection, in particular issues in the area of trademark and other related rights such as copyrights, geographical names and designs as well as unfair competition and the use of trademarks in advertising were on the focus of discussion.

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