On 20 August, the Arbitration Court of the Kaliningrad Region (hereinafter – Judgement) reconsidered under new circumstances case No. 21-7328/2014 on the dispute between PAG LLC and Sony Corporation on the protection of exclusive rights to the Sony trademark (hereinafter — The PAG case) in connection with the adoption by the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation (hereinafter – Constitutional Court) Resolution No. 8-P of 13 February 2018 (hereinafter – Decision 8-P). We wrote more about Regulation 8-P and the PAG Case in our May 2018 newsletter.
This information letter highlights the current approaches of arbitration courts in the practice of applying Regulation 8-P, as well as recent developments in the debate on the legalisation of parallel imports.
Parallel imports: development of practice and prospects for legalisation