We provided legal assistance to event planning association “Šarmants” in a dispute over intellectual property. The core of the dispute concerns rights to the concept of an event – a matter that Latvian case law has paid little regard to. The client was advised by partner Andris Tauriņš.
Deals & Cases / Maksim Salahub, Marina Golovnitskaya, Yauheni Budchanka
We assisted Papa John’s International, an American pizza restaurant franchise, with all matters related to local franchising operations, including contractual work. Our team was engaged in restructuring the client’s franchise relations in Belarus. The project concerned preparing a set of agreements aimed at 1) change of the franchisee to the subfranchisee, 2) assignment of particular […]
Publication / Marina Golovnitskaya, Yauheni Budchanka, Maksim Salahub, Kaupo Lepasepp, Mirell Prosa, Oliver Kuusk, Rūta Vaicekauskaitė-Jasionė, Paulius Mockevičius, Monika Mališauskaitė-Vaupšienė, Stasys Drazdauskas, Ieva Andersone, Linda Sarāne-Reneslāce, Andris Tauriņš, Jūlija Terjuhana, Private: Gunvaldis Leitens
Our team share another piece of intellectual property (IP) news in the Belarus-Baltics region telling about curious cases, news in legislation, and some measures taken by governments due to the COVID-19 pandemic which may still be helpful to business (mainly extension of statutory deadlines and, in some cases, waiver of statutory duties). IP news from […]
We assisted the Kino pavasaris Vilnius International Film Festival in removing counterfeit copies of the Oscar-winning movie “Parasite” from illegal torrent sites available in Lithuania. The movie was included in the programme of the digital festival held from 19 March–2 April 2020. Some infringers promptly removed the content voluntarily upon demand, while others required us […]
We successfully defended the interests of racing organiser National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) in disputes over registration of the NASCAR trademark in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. With the help of our team, the company managed to protect its NASCAR trademark and to invalidate designations of the international registration of an identical trademark […]
