On 7 July 2025, Federal Law No. 214-FL «On Amendments to Part Four of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation» was published. This law introduces the following significant changes to the provisions on the recovery of compensation for infringement of exclusive rights to intellectual property and means of individualisation equivalent thereto.

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

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April 10^th, 2025 annual conference Pharmaceuticals – 2025: Legal Issues will take place in Moscow organized by Pravo.ru. Lidings lawyers take an active part in the event’s program.

As a strategic partner of the conference, we aimed to make the program rich and actual. Together with pharmaceutical industry experts and lawyers, we will discuss how the market has changed in 2024 and what awaits us in 2025.

The State Duma is considering the bill No. 818556-8 “On Amendments to Part Four of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation” (the “Bill”), the authors of which propose to amend the procedure for making decisions on the use of inventions, utility models and industrial designs (“Objects of patent rights”) established by Article 1360 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation.

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.

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 in the Lidings’ Intellectual Property practice Vladislav Ryabov will take part in an annual conference entitled Intellectual Property - 2024 organized by Pravo.ru. The conference will take place on 22 November in Hotel Baltschug Kempinski.

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.