04.10.2016

On 4 October 2016, the AEB Intellectual Property (IP) Committee held its annual conference "Intellectual Property Rights: recent trends, court practices, problems and solutions" at the premises of the Delegation of the European Union to Russia.

The IP annual conference serves as a valuable platform for experts in intellectual property issues. It provides opportunities for its participants to learn about the most important issues in IPR protection through face-to-face interaction with representatives of state bodies, courts and leading legal companies and it provides an important platform for discussion.

The event was moderated by Anton Bankovsky, Chairman of the AEB Intellectual Property Committee, Partner, CMS. Ruslan Kokarev, AEB COO, and Luis Portero, Head of the Economic and Trade Section, Delegation of the European Union to the Russian Federation, welcomed the participants. Speakers from Russian state bodies (the Federal Antimonopoly Service, ROSPATENT, Court for Intellectual Property Rights), and regional organisations (Eurasian Economic Commission, European Commission) addressed a variety of issues ranging from the development of the Eurasian trademark system and united customs register of the Eurasian Economic Union to trading of counterfeit and pirated goods in the European Union.

Experts from the AEB IP Committee spoke on Russian court practice in parallel imports; issues related to damages and claims for compensation, protection of confidential information in Russia, registration of the disposal of exclusive rights, and the mandatory pre-trial settlement of IP disputes.

The AEB kindly thanks the sponsor of the event:    

The presentation can be downloaded HERE.

Upper photo L–R: Maria Kolzdorf, Senior Consultant, Department of generalisation of court practices and the analysis of judicial statistics, Court for Intellectual Property Rights; Tatiana Zmeevskaya, Head of the Department of means of individualization, the Office of the organisation of public services, Rospatent; Tamas Kiraly, Policy Officer – International Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights Directorate-General for Trade, European Commission; Anton Bankovskiy, Chairman of the AEB Intellectual Property Committee, Partner, CMS; Elena Izmaylova, Head of the Intellectual Property Protection Section, Entrepreneurship Department, Eurasian Economic Commission; Marina Oreshkina, Head of the Legal Expertise Unit, Legal Department, Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation.

L–R: Vladislav Eltovskiy, Associate, CMS; Pavel Arievich, Legal Director, DLA Piper; Elena Buranova, IP Counsel, Tilling Peters LLC; Anton Bankovskiy, Chairman of the AEB Intellectual Property Committee, Partner, CMS; Taras Derkatsch, PhD, Senior Associate, BEITEN BURKHARDT; Irina Stepanova, Head of IP (Moscow), Baker Botts.