Trade dress becomes an effective tool in fighting against unfair competitors. The scope of its protection is broad: from design of a package to the interior of the cafe. However, since trade dress has been mentioned in the law, neither the antimonopoly nor court authorities have explained how to use it correctly.

Intellectual Property practice associate at Lidings Anastasia Skovpen will conduct a webinar dedicated to the Unfair Competition and Copying Trade Dress as part of a series of webinars led by experts from the leading law firms and heads of legal of large companies, organized by Pravo.ru.

Best Lawyers, an international legal directory annually identifying the most prominent lawyers around the world by analyzing their professional skills and achievements during the year, as well as their business reputation based on the feedback of peers from their respective jurisdictions, once again lists Lidings’ Managing Partner Andrey Zelenin and Partner Tatiana Bicheva among the best lawyers in Russia in four key practice areas.

The Federal law No. 127-FZ “On measures (countermeasures) in response to the hostile acts of the USA and other foreign countries” (“the Law”) has come into effect on June 04, 2018.

On 24 April 2018 the Intellectual Property Court published its Decision in case A41 85807/2016 between Swiss-based Novartis AG and local generic Nativa LLC.

Lidings’ partner, head of the bankruptcy and restructuring practice at Lidings Stepan Guzey will take part in conference dedicated to the bankruptcy issues in Russia organized by Pravo.ru.

At present, the direction of medicine, such as telemedicine, becomes more and more known and the number of questions about the procedure of providing medical assistance using telemedicine is also growing.