On 19 December 2024, the competent committees of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation approved Bill No. 670471-8 "On Amending the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (in terms of clarifying liability for certain crimes against minors and against public health)" (hereinafter - the “Bill”).

The new review of the most notable patents disputes in Life Sciences in Russian and the CIS.

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On 5 December 2024 the results of the annual Pravo-300 law firms’ ranking were announced at an awarding ceremony at The Carlton Hotel in Moscow. This year Lidings expertise is highly praised in 17 key practice areas.

On November 22, 2024, the Government of the Russian Federation (the “Government”) approved Resolution No. 1607 dated November 22, 2024 (the “Resolution”) on the experiment in the territory of the Russian Federation to conduct monitoring of Russian manufacturers of goods which are subject to mandatory marking with means of identification using the state information monitoring system for the circulation of goods subject to mandatory marking with means of identification (the “Experiment”).

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Lidings’ Intellectual Property practice team succeeded in obtaining cancellation of registration of a drug in a dispute against the holder of the marketing authorisation (MA) due to the fact that during the process of registration of a generic drug product the Ministry of Health of Russia received false information from the holder of the MA.

Senior associate of the Lidings’ Intellectual Property practice Vladislav Ryabov will take part in the International Conference entitled Intellectual Property Right: Challenges of 21st Century. The conference will take place on 14-16 November 2024 at the campus of the National Research Tomsk State University.

On November 7, 2024, Lidings held a round table discussion " Launch of Medicines and Pharmaceutical Substances in Russian and Indian Markets" as part of the business program of the Forum "Under One Sun: Russia-India. Business and Culture ", which took place in Delhi, November 6 - 8, 2024.

Highlights of the event in our overview.

On 6-8 November 2024 the international forum “Under One Sun: Russia-India. Business and Cultur” will take place in Delhi, India withing the 100th anniversary of the Russian Association for International Cooperation. The event is organized on the initiative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation and the Trade Mission in India with the support of Lidings as a co-organizer of the business discussion.

During the forum on November 7 Lidings will hold a special round table “Launch of Medicines and Pharmaceutical Substances in Russian and Indian Markets” moderated by Lidings’ partner Boris Malakhov and counsel Natalya Thotahewage.

Despite the fact that the issue of intellectual property rights turnover is included in the perimeter of antimonopoly regulation, until recently the Russian Antitrust Agency took rather an observant position.

The regulator's position was that the issue of patent infringement is a private legal dispute between original and generic manufacturers, which should not affect the turnover of drugs, particularly the execution of contracts based on the results of public procurement. Only in isolated cases the Russian Antitrust Agency has established the fact of patent infringement and issued a corresponding order on the inadmissibility of anti-competitive practices.

Now the reverse trend has clearly emerged.

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