Preventing Unfair Competition: Protecting Corporate Identity and Trademarks

The KKMP team invites you to attend the seminar “Preventing Unfair Competition: Protecting Corporate Identity and Trademarks.”

During this closed-door discussion, we will discuss the following topics with Yana Vyacheslavovna Sklyarova, Deputy Head of the Department for Advertising Control and Unfair Competition at the Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia:

1. Copying and imitating competitors’ corporate identity, as well as the design and packaging of their products: strategies and tools for protecting against unfair competition

2. Criteria for similarity to the point of confusion: what the courts consider

3. Interim measures in trademark disputes: when the courts are accommodating, and when they are not

SPEAKERS:

• Stanislav Dobshevich, Partner at KKMP

• Ilya Kozhevnikov, Senior Associate at KKMP

• Elena Polevaya, Senior Associate at KKMP

• Yana Sklyarova, Deputy Head of the Department for Control of Advertising and Unfair Competition, Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia

PANELISTS:

• Tatyana Davydenko, Head of the Department for Litigation and Intellectual Property, Cherkizovo Group

• Ekaterina Baranakhina, Head of the Intellectual Property Protection Department, Cherkizovo Group

* This event is closed to students, consultants, and private practice lawyers. Seating is limited.