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Alexey Darkov
Counsel, Head of Intellectual Property Practice, Attorney
Languages
Russian, English
Alexey specializes in dispute resolution and intellectual property protection. He successfully represents clients' interests in Russian courts across various categories of cases, in the antitrust service for disputes in the area of unfair competition, in the Chamber for Patent Disputes of Rospatent, as well as in arbitration courts.

Alexey serves on the Appeal Committee of the Russian Football Union, the Commission on Legal Regulation in Healthcare at the Moscow branch of the Russian Bar Association.
 
He is actively engaged in conferences and webinars on intellectual property law and has authored several publications in this field.

Alexey has been practicing law for over fifteen years, with extensive consulting and litigation experience in:

  • Developing and implementing strategies for the protection of intellectual property rights, including inventions, industrial designs, trademarks, computer programs, and other copyright-protected works;

  • Comprehensive due diligence of corporate intellectual property;

  • Structuring and executing transactions involving the creation, use, and disposal of intellectual property rights;

  • Handling issues of reworking, modifying, and creating derivative works, including software;

  • Addressing the inclusion of licensing fees in the customs valuation of goods;

  • Ensuring compliance with regulations for classifying works as proprietary and preparing documentation related to the intellectual property asset management in companies.

Selected Experience
Rights Protection and Litigation

Alexey advised:
Gazprom Neftkhim Salavat in a patent dispute worth RUB 300 million regarding a service invention, where the court found no violations by the client;
a Russian company in a case challenging the authorship of a patent by the former CEO;
a Russian company in developing and implementing a strategy to challenge a competitor's trademark confusingly similar to its own;
Deals and Advisory

Alexey advised:
a major pharmaceutical company on the legal support of the full lifecycle of a COVID-19 drug, including structuring technology transfer deals, localizing production in 20+ jurisdictions, registering the drug in 70+ jurisdictions, and concluding over 150 contracts with foreign partners, with special focus on intellectual property rights protection;
a company on a deal to acquire rights to scoring software, including structuring the assignment of rights with a back-license in other countries, providing technical support services to the counterparty, and software modification;
a manufacturing company on localizing production in India, China, and South Korea;
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Ratings and Awards
Alexey is highly esteemed as an expert in intellectual property (including rights protection, litigation, and consulting), as per the Law300 2022-2023, Legal500, and also the Best Lawyers 2022 rankings.

Legal 500 in the nomination: Intellectual Property

Best Lawyers in the nomination: Intellectual Property

Pravo-300 in the nominations: Intellectual Property (Rights Protection and Litigation), Intellectual Property (Advisory), Intellectual Property (Registration), Antitrust Law

Kommersant
in the nominations: Intellectual Property: Advisory, Intellectual Property: Disputes, TMT (Telecommunications, Media, Technology)

Rossiyskaya Gazeta in the nominations: Intellectual Property, Digital Assets and Their Management, Healthcare and Pharma
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