Sojuzpatent is one of the leading companies in the Russian Federation in the field of Intellectual Property right's protection. Sojuzpatent offers a wide range of services in all aspects of Intellectual Property in the Russian Federation and internationally including the CIS countries.
 | litigation news |
December 3, 2009 - The Chamber for the Patent Disputes of the Russian PTO issued decision to invalidate in full in Russia the Eurasian patent 2780 (relates to gas separation and liquidation process) belonging to Translang Technologies (Canada). The opposition has been filed in the name of Shell B.V. and supported in the hearings by patent attorneys of Sojuzpatent Mr.Struchkov and Dr.Zalesov. 
December 2, 2009 - The Federal Arbitration Court for Moscow Circuit decided in favor of Soremartec S.A. (Ferrero Group) and retained in force International registration 798984 related to the outer appearance of Raffaello pralines. Ferrero Group has been represented in trial by attorneys of Sojuzpatent Mrs. Ozolina and Dr.Zalesov.
November 16, 2009 The Appeal Arbitration Court for Ninth Circuit decided in favor of plaintiff JSC DZNVA (Russia, Krasnoyarsk region) against JSC “Electroapparat” (Russia, Kursk region) in patent enforcement case (Russian UM patent 53815 relates to high voltage switch). The Court ruled to give permanent injunction against manufacturing of electrical equipment which uses said patent. The plaintiff was supported in hearings by attorneys of Sojuzpatent Ms.Bednova and Mrs. Ozolina.
November 13, 2009 – The Appeal Arbitration Court for Ninth Circuit decided in favor of plaintiff “Dr. Ing. h.s.F. Porsche AG” (German sport car manufacturer) in the trademark infringement case ruling to transfer to the plaintiff rights for domain names “cayenne-club.ru” and “cayenneclub.ru”. The plaintiff was supported in the hearings by attorneys of Sojuzpatent Mrs. Ekhlas and Dr.Zalesov.
November 5, 2009 – The Moscow Arbitration Court considered the disputes between Merck and Russian PTO (Teva Corp. represented by Sojuzpatent is interested party on the side of the Russian PTO) on previous invalidation of Eurasian patent 4544 (related to Alendronate) in favor of Teva Corp.
November 2, 2009 - The Chamber for the Patent Disputes of the Russian PTO issued decision invalidating in part in Russia the Eurasian patent 8223 (related to trimetazidin matrix tablet) belonging to Laboratories Servie (France). The opposition has been filed in the name of Gideon Richter (Hungary) and supported in the hearings by patent attorneys of Sojuzpatent Dr.Sobolev and Dr.Zalesov.
October 29, 2009 – The Moscow City Arbitration Court ruled in favor of plaintiff JSC “Otechestvennie Lekarstva” (Russia) (represented by attorneys of Sojuzpatent Dr.Zalesov and Mrs. Ozolina) and declared illegal decision of Russian PTO on invalidation of the Russian patent 2229291 (relates to the drug against hang-over syndrome) previously made on the opposition filed by JSC VeroPharm (Russia). This case follows previous favorite to the client of Sojuzpatent ruling of courts (of all three instances) to put permanent injunction on JSC VeroPharm and to collect damages for manufacturing of patented drug.
 | conferences, workshops, exhibitions |
Sojuzpatent Ltd. was one of the co-organizers of the First All-Russian IP Forum “ExpoPriority” which took place December 1-4, 2009 in the Moscow Central Convention Hall “EXPOCENTER”
April 10, 2008 in Tokyo (Japan) the Joint seminar of IP protection in Russia was organized by the Japanese and Russian National Groups of the AIPPI. The panelists in the seminar were the President of the Russian Patent Office Dr.Boris Simonov and the President of the Eurasian Patent Office Dr.Alexander Grigoriev. One of the panelists (with the topic on patent enforcement in Russia) was Head of Litigation Practice of Sojuzpatent Dr.Zalesov, who serves as the Secretary of the Russian National Group of the AIPPI.
April 29, 2008 the patent attorneys of Sojzpatent Elena Vorobieva and Tayana Echlas organized a seminar on IP protection concerning the newly adopted Part 4 of the Russian Civil Code in the City of Volgograd (Southern part of Russia)
 | publications |
Journal “Intellectual Property” #7, 2008 published article “When the patent can be invalidated in part” by Dr.Zalesov of Sojuzpatent.
Journal “IP Exchange” #3, 2008 published article “Novelties in eth regulation of the franchising in Russia” by Dr.Zalesov of Sojuzpatent.
Journal “Patent attorney” #2, 2008 published article “Which law is applicable ” by Dr.Zalesov of Sojuzpatent.
