Dispute Resolution/ International Arbitration
Intellectual Property
Uliana Shpalyanskaya is a lawyer, a member of Andrey Gorodissky & Partners Law Firm’s Intellectual Property Practice team.
One of Uliana’s key professional focus areas is litigation and pre-trial dispute resolution in the sphere of intellectual property and IT.
Uliana successfully represents clients before judicial and administrative authorities in intellectual property protection matters, in particular, supporting clients in complicated trademark, company names, patent, and copyright disputes.
Within the scope of the IP Practice Uliana also provides advice to clients on a broad range of IP, IT, personal data, and advertising issues.
Uliana has considerable experience in registration of intellectual property items, including trademarks, industrial designs, computer software, hardware and software packages with the Russian Patent and Trademark Office (Rospatent), the Russian Software Register (maintained by the Ministry for Digital Technology, Communication and Mass Media – MinTsifry), and the Customs Register of Intellectual Properties. Besides that, Uliana contributes to projects involving registration and protection of intellectual properties in various foreign jurisdictions (China, UAE, Turkey, CIS countries, etc.).
Uliana’s area of professional expertise also extends to structuring of IP-asset deals and drawing up of agreements for disposition of IP rights (granting licenses, franchises, elaboration of contractual framework for software development).
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In a case over early termination of registration of a famous trademark owned by a French automobile manufacturer the counsel managed to configure a precedent-setting practice and contest the dismissal of the case on the ground of alleged abuse of right.
Successfully represented one of the largest rail carriers in trade names and trademark exclusive rights protection disputes, including, among others a famous trademark (domain name disputes).
Successfully represented a major gas analysis equipment manufacturer in an unfair competition case connected with acquisition and use of rights to a trademark and in a parallel dispute over recovery of a multi-million compensation.
Protected a manufacturer of mountain skiing garments in a dispute over infringement of exclusive design rights. The dispute was resolved by making of an amicable agreement with the exclusion of the term that provided for payment of a multimillion compensation.
Protected interests of a well-known IT company engaging in development of digital forensics software in a dispute over infringement of the exclusive right to the software.