A competitor of Olympic Casino, a leading provider of casino entertainment in Latvia, applied for registration of the trade mark “Olimps Kazino”. Sorainen prepared and filed an opposition arguing that the trade mark conflicts with the earlier trade mark of Olympic Casino. The Board of Appeal decided in favour of Olympic Casino Latvia and declared […]
The Latvian Supreme Court (SC/Court) has decided to partially satisfy a complaint by SIA Bauskas Dzîve (Bauskas Dzīve), publisher of the newspaper Bauskas Dzīve against a decision of the Administrative District Court, which had refused to initiate a case on the basis of Bauskas Dzīve’s application against the conduct of the Council of Iecava Region, publisher […]
Deals & Cases
Sorainen is advising Orkla Care and Orkla Health, among the biggest food supplement producers in the Nordic countries, on intellectual property matters. Sorainen’s work with Orkla Health includes sending cease and desist letters regarding the trademarks CuraMed and HUSK plus drafting notification to the Consumer Rights Protection Authority related to illegal use of the Nutriless […]
Sorainen advised Danish Agro group company DAVA Agravis Machinery Holding on its acquisition of 45% of the share capital in Konekesko Lietuva from Finnish company Konekesko. DAVA Agravis Machinery Holding also acquired a minority interest in Konekesko subsidiaries in Latvia and Estonia. The total disclosed value of the transaction in all three Baltic States is […]
Deals & Cases / Maksim Salahub, Marina Golovnitskaya, Kirill Laptev
Sorainen Belarus supported Synopsys in the light of its acquisition of Codiscope, LLC, another US-based software company. Sorainen support included revision of the software development agreement concluded by Codiscope with a Belarusian counterparty and advising on IP transfer and licensing matters. Synopsys is the world’s 15th largest software company, established in the US, with a […]
