Currently in Russia the active development of intellectual property legislation continues. Starting from 2008, Part IV of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation enters into force, which will regulate the use of results of intellectual activities and means of individualization, and the legal culture of business, the state and society will change. Under the conditions of the present changes, Russian and foreign companies encounter the task of efficiently gaining profit with the use of their intellectual property (IP).

To solve this task we offer our clients a range of legal and tax services connected with ensuring IP management. Methods we have developed, implemented projects and the professional experience of the employees of the intellectual property protection practice allow for solving the tasks of IP safety audit, selecting strategies for protecting and disposing of intangible assets, structuring them, and establishing IP-companies owning and managing IP.

In the field of IP management, solutions for organizing the registration of IP objects being created and used and for protecting companies’ interests in labor relations with employees who create works for hire and service inventions as well as for protecting information that may be considered a commercial secret are also in high demand among our clients.

In Russia and the CIS we implement registrations of trademarks, inventions, utility models, industrial designs, computer programs and databases, develop the texts of licenses and agreements on assignment of IP objects and transfer of high technologies and their further registration with patent offices. We represent the interests of applicants in court and administrative disputes over the registration and protection of rights to IP objects, advertising and unfair competition with the use of results of intellectual activities.

Our clients in the sphere of IP protection and management are both companies of the real sector of the economy, oriented towards producing and consuming material goods and services, and organizations for which intangible assets are the basis of their businesses: mass media, advertising agencies, IT-companies, companies rendering services over the Internet and involved in electronic commerce. For such clients we provide services related to legal support for electronic documents workflow and electronic payments as well as to protection of personal data in the sphere of information relations and the Internet.

In view of the number of changes made in 2006 to Russian information legislation, organizations having at their disposal information on the private lives of their employees and clients have encountered the important task of bringing information processes into compliance with the requirements of a number of laws, in particular the new Federal Law “On Personal Data”. Expertise in technologies and the high qualifications of our employees in the sphere of establishing regulations on the use of information resources and systems, developing draft regulatory acts for state authorities of the Russian Federation and corporate policies for protecting information allow us to successfully achieve the goals set forth by our clients with respect to regulation of information relations.

One of the most important services we provide is connected with legal support for IT business. Leading global producers of software and computer equipment actively promoting their products on the Russian market have become our clients. The scientific credibility of the employees of the practice, their practical experience and close expert cooperation with state bodies in the sphere of regulation of information technologies and innovations have made it possible for us to create a system of legal and tax services that meets the needs of the industries of software development, distribution and outsourcing, rendering of IT services, cryptography and telecommunications.