Irina Onikienko, Partner and head of the IP practice and the Dispute Resolution practice was invited to moderate the session of “Special session. Vital IP issues in CIS countries.”

Elena Berger, Senior Associate of the IP practice and Dispute Resolution practice will speak on the topic of “Issues of determining the compensation amount for unlawful use of a trademark” in the session “Parallel blocks dedicated to protection of various IP items.”

This year, the main topics of the Forum will be:

• Managing a company’s IP and innovational development
• Methods for combatting bad faith competition
• Preventive measures for protecting IP
• Protecting the employer’s rights to work product
• European unitary patent
• Grounds for complaining to the Federal Antitrust Service (FAS), protection practice
• Parallel import issues
• IP protection issues in Belarus and Kazakhstan
• Reform of collective IP management
• Regulations governing digital 3D objects, audio-visual works and audio-visual business
• Protecting software and legal aspects of SaaS
• Patent limits for drugs and combatting “evergreening” patents in pharma. The practice of mandatory licensing
• Latest tax trends for IP
• Practice of resolving disputes through administrative procedures and analysis of court practice

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