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The lawyers of Pepeliaev Group’s customs practice won the case for the client, a major shipping company, before the Economic Panel of the Russian Supreme Court. 

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’. 

Valentina Orlova, Head of IP and Trademarks Practice at Pepeliaev Group, appears in the 2018 World IP Review Trademarks Directory.

Valentina Orlova, Head of the IP Practice in Pepeliaev Group, has been ranked in Band 1 of the Chambers Global individual rankings in the area of IP.

Lawyers of Pepeliaev Group successfully defended the client, a large building contractor, before the Russian Supreme Court.