Client: a large pharmaceutical company that found out about the unfair practices of competitors, who sold medications similar to the client’s trademarks and used copyrighted labels.
Purpose: bringing competitors to criminal or administrative liability and recovering compensation for illegal use of the trademark.
Result:
1. Our experts in cooperation with patent attorneys took a set of actions to protect the brand, including ordering a set of patent examinations and a survey of the Russian Public Opinion Research Center.
2. In cooperation with patent attorneys our experts initiated the proceedings in the Office of the Federal Antimonopoly Service to protect our client against unfair competition.
3. Our experts initiated the criminal proceedings against violators by reason of illegal use of a trademark.
4. Our experts obtained to bring unfair competitors to administrative responsibility by Rospotrebnadzor (Russian consumer protection agency).
5. Our experts got compensation from competitors for illegal use of the trademark in court.