A SIGNIFICANT STEP AHEAD TOWARDS PARTICIPATION OF SEARCH ENGINE OPERATORS IN IP RIGHTS DISPUTES IN RUSSIA

marketude Intellectual Property, Olesya Nalimova, Publications, Russia, Russian Brief

One could not imagine the modern Internet without search engines that became its face and intrinsic function. It is similarly uneasy to do without them when enforcing intellectual property rights on the Internet. In 2017, the Russian legislator started familiarizing itself with this tool, and as a result extended, to a certain degree, the technical possibilities for protecting intellectual property rights from violations put in place through the Internet (e.g. on Google Russia, Yahoo Russia, and national operators Yandex, Rambler and Mail.ru)…

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