An article titled “The main burden of the IPC is trademark protection cases,” in The Lawyer’s Newspaper, quoted Artur Zurabyan
In an article for The Lawyer’s Newspaper, Artur Zurabyan, the head of the Dispute Resolution and International Arbitration Practice at ART DE LEX, commented on the activities of the Intellectual Property Court (Суд по интеллектуальным правам, СИП; English, IPC), based on the 2018 statistics for the first instance and cassation courts. Mr. Zurabyan stated that the growth trend in the number of cases corresponds to the overall increase in the number of applications filed with arbitration courts. At the same time, the number of new applications filed in economic disputes and other cases arising from administrative and other public legal relations decreased from 438, in 2017, to 408, in 2018. “This may indicate a qualitative growth of the relevant state bodies,” Mr. Zurabyan suggested.
Artur Zurabyan noted that the ratio of cases by district confirms the significant burden of the Moscow district. According to Mr. Zurabyan, “of the 1047 cases the IPC considered as a court of cassation, a total of 373, that is, more than a third, were in the Moscow District. At the same time, the IPC cancelled more than 20 percent of the judicial acts it reviewed, which also is a common statistical indicator of this court. If one considers the consolidated statistics on arbitration courts of the districts for 2017 (no summary statistics are available for 2018), the average percentage of cancelled court decisions is only 12.5 percent. Of course, in the Moscow District, this percentage is significantly higher and approaches the indicators for the IPC.”
