Alla Azmukhanova, Author at Kluwer Competition Law Blog

Unprecedented Russian Law Enforcement: Obligation to Return Unlawfully Gained Income When Using a Leniency Program

Alla Azmukhanova, Daniil Lozovsky (ALRUD)/May 21, 2019May 21, 2019 /Leave a comment

The Regional office of the Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Sverdlovsk region has recently issued a decision ordering a leniency applicant to return unlawfully gained income. The Appeal Board of the Federal Antimonopoly Service (the “FAS”) has now reconsidered this decision on appeal. Background of the case The ground for initiating the case was the…

Intellectual property (IP), Parallel imports, Russia

Parallel imports in Russia: expected changes in regulation and practice in the light of a breakthrough decision of the Constitutional Court

Vassily Rudomino, Alla Azmukhanova, Alexander Nazarov (ALRUD)/February 4, 2019February 4, 2019 /Leave a comment

Exhaustion doctrine and parallel imports Parallel imports, Intellectual Property (“IP”) protection and its correlation with antimonopoly regulation is one of the most discussed topicsin the Russian Federation for the past 15 years. In general, the issue of parallel imports is closely associated with the exhaustion doctrine (that is, once a product protected by IP has…