Intellectual property and trademarks

Pepeliaev Group continues to occupy high positions the Chambers Global independent international ratings. 

Pepeliaev Group has achieved exceptional results in the Pravo.ru-300 Russian legal ratings. 

The Russia listing of the leading international legal rating Best Lawyers™ 2019 contained 14 lawyers from Pepeliaev Group, including two first-timers: PG Partner Yulia Litovtseva has gained recognition in the bankruptcy category and Head of the Tax Practice Group Ksenia Litvinova has been nominated for tax law.

The experts of Pepeliaev Group’s Intellectual Property and Trademarks Practice have again been awarded the highest rankings in the independent legal directory Managing Intellectual Property.

On 26 April, Valentina V. Orlova, Head of the IP and Trademarks Practice at Pepeliaev Group, held a seminar at Consultant Plus's Corporate University. The seminar was dedicated to “Topical practical issues in the area of IP”.

Law Firm Pepeliaev Group has continued to perform positively at the top of The Legal 500 international ratings. 

Pepeliaev Group has made striking progress in the Chambers Europe 2018 rankings. In Restructuring/Insolvency: Litigation Pepeliaev Group has risen to Band 3 skipping one band as compared with the last year’s results. In addition, Yulia Litovtseva, Partner and Head of the Bankruptcy and Anti-Crisis Protection of Business Practice, has shown an improvement of her own, rising to Band 4 in individual rankings. 

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.

The WTR 1000 individuals rating (prosecution and strategy) has awarded a Gold rating to Valentina Orlova Head of Pepeliaev Group's Intellectual Property and Trademarks Practice.