The firm’s lawyers successfully represented Kavminvody JSC (“Kavminvody”), a renowned producer of the Novoterskaya Tselebnaya mineral water, in the IP Court. The outcome was that the legal protection of a similar trademark owned by a bad-faith rightholder was declared invalid.
Valentina Orlova, Head of the Intellectual Property and Trademarks Practice at Pepeliaev Group, participated in the first meeting of the working group that is preparing a draft law amending the Russian Civil Code. The changes will improve the legal regulation of the appellations of origin of goods and supplement the list of the protected IP items with a new item called a ‘geographical indication’.
Experts of law firm Pepeliaev Group have participated in the development of content for the Business Environment platform the establishment of which has been initiated by the Russian Ministry of Economic Development and Sberbank PJSC. The platform will accumulate services which will be useful for small and medium enterprises. The knowledge base of the platform will cover all topics of a business cycle, from formation to the liquidation of a company.
