According to Chapter 57 of the Federal law No. 289-FZ dated 03.08.2018 “On Customs Regulation in the Russian Federation and on amending certain legislative acts of the Russian Federation” (Law on customs regulation) a rightholder is entitled to file to the Customs Service an application for including their IP objects to the Customs Register seeking rights protection.

Partner of Lidings law firm Stepan Guzey, Head of the firm’s Bankruptcy and Restructuring practice will act as an expert at a special business breakfast on Tracing and Recovery of Assets of Russian Debtors Outside Russia and Financing of Such Processes. The event is organized by the Legal Insight Magazine and the PLATFORMA service and is scheduled to take place in Moscow on February 5th 2020.

Partner of Lidings’ dispute resolution practice Stepan Guzey will act as an expert at the annual conference International Disputes and Asset Recovery Involving Former Soviet Union Parties scheduled to take place in London on 28 and 29 of January 2020.

On December 25, 2019 the Presidium of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation adopted the Judicial Review on certain issues arising in the application of law on business companies.

On July 9, 2019 the Plenum of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation approved the Resolution. № 4 “On the application of private international law by the courts of the Russian Federation” (hereinafter — the Resolution).

The new review of the most notable patents disputes in Life Sciences in EAEU, CIS and Eastern Europe.

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Under the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1556 dated December 14, 2018 (hereinafter — Decree No. 1556), monitoring system of the medical drugs circulation should become effective from the January 2020 with the exception of medical drugs for healing high-cost ICD diseases, which have already been monitored from October1, 2019.

On December 2, 2019, Federal Law No. 405-FZ entered into force. This act significantly increases administrative liability for violations of the requirements on the localization of databases containing personal data of Russian nationals. The localization requirement was first introduced into the Russian legislation in 2014 and imposed an obligation to locate servers with the personal data of Russian nationals only in the territory of the Russian Federation.

Lidings’ Partner of the Criminal Defense practice Stepan Guzey will take part in a conference dedicated to the Criminal Law Defense of Business. The event organized by Pravo.ru will take place in Moscow on 12th of December 2019 at Ararat Park Hyatt.