Head of KIAP IP practice Elena Buranova spoke at the "XX Forum on Intellectual property. Russia and CIS countries"

Head of KIAP IP practice Elena Buranova spoke at the "XX Forum on Intellectual property. Russia and CIS countries"

On March 21-22, 2019, in Hilton Moscow Leningradskaya was held the “XX Forum on intellectual property. Russia and CIS countries”, organized by Infor-Media Agency.

Elena Buranova, head of the intellectual property practice of KIAP, patent attorney of the Russian Federation, took part in the event as a speaker and spoke at the master class "Building a complex strategy for the protection of intellectual property (IP)" with a presentation on current issues of the court practice. In her speech Elena recommended to accurately formulate the purpose of filing a claim, to prove the existence of an exclusive right to the IP object, to demand the prohibition of specific methods of use, as well as specify the goods and prove the duration of the violation.

During the session the participants discussed the choice of the most preferable methods and level of protection for IP objects, as well as raised the topic of developing a system of measures to prevent illegal use by third parties of the company's rights to IP objects. In addition, they discussed the practice of monitoring and recording violations of human rights, the theme of interim measures, application of an injunction, recovery of compensation, etc. A lively discussion also sparked the examples from litigation in court and in the Chamber of patent disputes.

The conference was attended by more than 120 delegates from more than 20 industries and various Federal districts of Russia and CIS countries: heads of legal services, lawyers, heads of judicial departments and departments of intellectual property, patent attorneys, experts working in the EEU, as well as heads of IP practices and patent attorneys of law firms.