Key Issues in the Intellectual Property Court’ Presidium Rulings

Natalia Kapyrina,

Maria Kolzdorf

Published: April 30, 2022

The comment reviews key positions in the rulings of the Presidium of the Russian Intellectual Property Court (IPC) issued in October and November 2021. This Chamber hears cassation appeals against the decisions of the IPC first instance and deals primarily, but not only, with matters of validity of registered intellectual property rights. Therefore, this review predominantly covers substantive requirements for patent and trademark protection, as well as procedural issues both in the administrative adjudicating mechanism at the Patent office (Rospatent) and at the IPC itself. The current review covers such issues as the procedure for challenging a Eurasian patent term …

Thoughts on the EU Digital Single Market Strategy and the New Consumer Sales Directive

Antonio Iannì

Published: April 30, 2022

The paper describes the impact of the EU ‘Digital Single Market Strategy’ (DSMS) on consumer law. The essay analyses, in particular, the new Consumer Sales Directive [Directive (EU) 2019/771] and its recent transposition into Italian Law. Starting from the assumption that the Information-Digital Age certainly has social-economic impacts, therefore also legal ones, the paper first of all illustrates the Strategy promoted in 2015 by the European Commission. In order to represent how the Commission intends to face the new digital “revolution” and its economic opportunities, this essay — through a brief description of the main pillars of the DSMS — …