LES Russia successfully held the Webinar "Litigation in IP licensing and commercialization”. At first Sergey Dorofeev, President of LES Russia, Partner at Gorodissky & Partners congratulated Natalia Karpova, PhD, Professor, Russian Academy of National Economy and Civil Service under the President of the Russian Federation (RANEPA) on her anniversary. Natalia is one of the oldest members of LES Russia, who stood at the origins of its foundation, its Vice-President, and ex-President of LES Russia.

Professional program started with the presentation of Natalia Karpova “IP licensing in Russia: current state and development trend", where she spoke about the latest trends in the commercialization of IP objects in Russia.

Then Elena Morgunova, PhD, Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MSAL), made a presentation “License agreements litigation: main problems and causes” and spoke about court approaches and practice in the field of licensing disputes.

In the joint presentation “Franchising agreements litigation” of Yury Mikhailichenko, Director of Russian Franchise Association, member of LES Russia and Sergey Medvedev, Ph.D., LL.M., member of LES Russia, Partner at Gorodissky & Partners spoke about business approaches to solving problems and conflicts in the field of franchising, and cited several landmark court cases in this area.

In continuation Evgeny Oreshin, Ph.D., Attorney at Law, Head of Litigation Practice at Eversheads Sutherland, made the report “Debates about new technologies”, in which he highlighted Russian and international experience and practice in protecting rights to software, databases and other IP objects on the Internet.

Anna Voitsekhovich, Ph.D., Patent Attorney, Director of Legal Risk Management Department MTS ended the webinar with her presentation “Court position over compliance of license agreements with antitrust legislation” and spoke about the latest trends in the development of practice in the field of influence of antitrust law on intellectual property, highlighted the approaches of the courts in this area.

The webinar gathered more than 70 listeners and was highly appreciated by the audience.