Subscriber-based legal support for businesses in Russia

A blogger, owner of an online store of bloptop soft toys (over 400 thousand toys sold), and the author of the famous toy based on the Internet meme "Floppa - a big Russian cat" with an image of a cat from the popular meme "big floppa" applied for protection of his rights to the toy design. The complexity of the dispute is due to the fact that the obvious bad faith of the violator (in the form of replacing the photo), in the opinion of ordinary people, allowed him to defend himself from the claim ("Are you protecting the meme?" - "You are not the author", "Are you protecting the photo?" - "But the photo is different", "Are you protecting the form?" - "It is used by many manufacturers"). We managed to convince the court that the production of a very similar work with the same positioning, when consumers confuse the original and the copy, when the copy could not have been created without the original, could be considered reworking

The client is one of the four inventors of the UltrixQuadri vaccine, the first Russian inactivated quadrivalent influenza vaccine that meets all WHO recommendations on the composition and amount of hemagglutinin of each strain of the influenza virus. Full dispute management on a turnkey basis, from drawing up a claim and a statement of claim to participation in court hearings and the execution of the court decision in the court of three instances (first, appeal, cassation). The author's remuneration for the development and each year of use of the invention was collected

We helped a blogger to recover compensation in the amount of RUB 1,320,000 from the NTV television company in the Arbitration Court of Moscow for the violation of copyright and exclusive rights to videos by broadcasting and posting on the website. It was particularly difficult to prove the content of the TV program on the air, since the defendant deleted the recordings in order to avoid liability. We have done a lot of work to collect evidence, and we have managed to build a system of circumstantial evidence that allowed us to confirm the position of our client

We helped Status Grunt LLC to recover more than 4 million rubles of debt under contracts for the lease of special equipment in the Arbitration Court of Moscow by two court decisions. The case was complicated by the debtor's refusal to sign some certificates of services rendered, in connection with which it was decided to divide the collection into two disputes—with signed and unsigned certificates. In the second dispute, our lawyers have done a lot of work to collect primary documents (records of hours worked) signed by the debtor's employees without the appropriate powers of attorney, as well as to build a system of indirect evidence confirming that they have the appropriate powers that are evident from the situation

A number of our client's publications were used in the compilation of four courses by online schools: ANO National Research Institute of Further Education and Vocational Training, ANO FVE Volgograd Humanitarian Academy of Professional Training of Social Sphere Specialists, ANO Academy of Continuing Education, and ANO FVE Ural Institute for Advanced Training and Retraining. We have done a lot of work to collect and record evidence for more than six months, prepared and sent a claim, and then filed a lawsuit. Despite all the efforts of the defendant, including the involvement of Professor E.P. Gavrilov (National Research University Higher School of Economics) in the case, we managed to win the dispute, achieve the removal of the disputed courses, publish a correction statement on the website, and recover compensation in the total amount of RUB 1,600,000

A land plot worth 6 million rubles, registered to NOMID LLC, as a result of dishonest actions of the former general director, was sold for only 650 thousand rubles, which caused significant damage to the company. We requested documents from Rosreestr and found that the agreement was concluded after the information about the termination of the powers of the previous general director was entered into the Unified State Register of Legal Entities. We filed a claim with the court, achieved recognition of the transaction as invalid, and returned the land plot to its rightful owner

Si Di Land Contact LLC, engaged in professional activities to protect the rights to the Zhdun copyright item, in order to increase the amount of compensation, filed a claim against our client in the form of doubled cost of the right to use (such compensation is possible only in extraordinary cases). In the first instance, we reduced the amount of compensation to RUB 50,000; in the second instance, under the weight of our arguments, the plaintiff was forced to abandon the claims completely

The client's company purchased a Hyundai Solaris car under a leasing agreement. The lessee had a delay on payment, but the penalty and redemption payment were paid in full. The leasing company refused to issue the vehicle title and demanded that the car be returned. We were able to prove that the obligations were fulfilled in full and that the delay was not grounds for terminating the leasing agreement. The court recognized the ownership and compelled the leasing company to hand over the vehicle title to the lessee

The well-known TV store LEOMAX notarized the fact of posting videos on the websites of a number of competing online stores and then filed claims with the Moscow Arbitration Court for the recovery of 390 thousand rubles from each store as compensation for copyright infringement. We reviewed the case materials, found a number of contradictions, and, based on them, developed a defense strategy that allowed the defendants to win all cases with our participation

A company of Crocus construction holding contacted us for assistance in collecting accumulated debt. We sent a claim to the debtor and then filed a lawsuit with the Moscow Arbitration Court. The court agreed with our arguments and satisfied the claim in full, including interest for using funds until the date of actual execution of the court decision