The 8th Annual IP Seminar «Obtaining & Enforcement of IP Rights in Russia»

The 8th Annual IP Seminar «Obtaining & Enforcement of IP Rights in Russia» was held in the Moscow office of Gorodissky & Partners.

Leading patent/trademark attorneys and lawyers of the firm shared with the international audience the up-to-date information on IP legislation in Russia. The most interesting cases from IP attorneys practice were presented, as well as general overview of current legal issues. Topical questions like patent and trademark proceedings before the national and Eurasian Patent offices, overall IP enforcement and litigation, parallel import, trade dress and know-how protection, use of utility models, protection of IP rights within Eurasian economic unity etc. attracted much attention of the attendees. Two special workshops devoted to trademarks and biotech/pharma patents successfully added seminar sessions.

The seminar was well-attended by over 30 professionals from Denmark, Sweden, Germany, USA, UK, Switzerland, Netherlands, Abkhazia, Belarus and Russia, who represented JETRO, ABBYY Software House, Siemens AG, LEO Pharma, ABB, Novartis and others.

Comments of the attendees:

«Very well organized lectures, useful content»
(Olha Yampolska, KATZAROV, Switzerland)

«It was a very good idea to split trademark and biotech patenting into dedicated workshops»
(Stephan Disser, Hoffmann Eitle, Germany)

«I’ve enjoyed my first time in Moscow and hope to return another year. The whole programme has been extremely well organized, and very professional.»
(Stephen Le Feuvre, Lysaght & Co., Channel Islands)(С. Ле Февр, Lysaght & Co., Нормандские о-ва)