Jubilee Conference "XXI Century - Challenges in the Field of Intellectual Property Law"

Professionals from Gorodissky & Partners will host a Jubilee Conference ‘Current Challenges in Intellectual Property Law’ dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the firm's branch in Saint-Petersburg.

The conference will be devoted to the complex legal protection of intellectual assets.

Leading experts of Gorodissky & Partners will tell about innovations and intellectual property, transformations of patent law in Russia over 25 years and their impact on modern practice, on the registration of trademarks of foreign companies after their withdrawal from the Russian market, franchising as an effective tool for business development and more others.

The conference will include a round-table “Digital technologies and IT solutions as protectable results of intellectual activity”, dedicated to the latest practice of patenting inventions in the IT sphere, computer interface as an object of design, means of individualization of software products as trademarks, problems and risks related to identification, fixation and distribution of rights between IT specialists, investors and employers as well as judicial practice in this sphere.

Key speakers of the conference:

• Valery Medvedev, Managing Partner, Russian Patent & Trademark Attorney, Eurasian Patent & Design Attorney, Moscow
• Victor Stankovsky, Partner, Russian Patent Attorney, Eurasian Patent & Design Attorney, Regional Director, Saint-Petersburg
• Alexander Nesterov, Partner, Trademark Attorney, Moscow
• Viacheslav Rybchak, Partner, Russian Trademark & Design Attorney, Eurasian Design Attorney, Moscow
• Andrey Rogov, Head of computer systems department Moscow
• Natalia Nikolaeva, Partner, Trademark Attorney, Regional Director, Novosibirsk
• Valery Narezhny, Ph.D., Counsel, Moscow
• Maria Nosova, Lawyer, Trademark Attorney, Saint-Petersburg
• Dmitry Yakovlev, Russian and Eurasian Patent Attorney, Saint-Petersburg
• Yaroslava Gorbunova, Senior Lawyer, Trademark Attorney, Saint-Petersburg

The seminar will include a presentation of unique legal-tech products such as Gorodissky IP Security automated platform for monitoring violations & misuse of intellectual property rights on the internet.