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31.10-06.11.2024
Sanctions and Compliance
🇺🇸 USA: Office of Public Affairs, 04.11.2024: Virginia Company and Two Senior Executives Charged with Illegally Exporting Millions of Dollars of U.S. Technology to Russia. Eleview International Inc., Oleg Nayandin, 54, of Fairfax, Virginia, and Vitaliy Borisenko, 39, of Vienna, Virginia, made their initial appearance today in the Eastern District of Virginia pursuant to a now unsealed complaint charging them with conspiracy to violate the Export Control Reform Act. If convicted, Nayandin and Borisenko each face a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.
🇬🇧 UK: Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, 05.11.2024: The UK FAQs on legal assistance have been updated. Changes were made to FAQ sections 49-51, 55, 61-66, 72-73, 76, and 84: fee and expense limits have been increased, a new restriction on transfers to accounts in banks outside the UK has been introduced, and the position on limits applicable to in-house lawyers and directly authorized counsel has been clarified.
Public International Law
🇺🇳 UN: United Nations, Meetings Coverage and Press Releases, 30.10.2024: The 193-member Assembly adopted its annual resolution on the “Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba”, by a recorded vote of 187 in favour and 2 against (United States, Israel), with 1 abstention (Republic of Moldova).
🇺🇸 USA: The White House, Briefing Room, Presidential Actions, 01.11.2024: Notice to the Speaker of the House and President of the Senate on the Continuation of the National Emergency With Respect to Iran.
Intellectual Property Law
🇬🇧 UK: Reuters, 31.10.2024: Google defeats UK trademark lawsuit over YouTube Shorts name. Google on Thursday defeated a trademark lawsuit brought by a British short film company over YouTube's short video platform Shorts, with London's High Court ruling there was no risk of confusion for consumers.
🇪🇺 EU: European Commission, 05.11.2024: The European Commission has published updated FAQs on Intellectual Property Rights. Many clarifications pertain to the new Article 5c, introduced in the 14th sanctions package in June 2024. This article prohibits intellectual property offices in the EU from accepting registration applications from legal entities in Russia. This provision is explained as a response to Russia’s actions related to parallel imports.
Интересная статья: Pravo.ru, 01.11.2024: Банкротство под санкциями: российским кредиторам дали право голоса.
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