Protection of the rights of an owner of the trade mark or  company name of the account in the social network ("Odnoklassniki" - ok.ru, "VKontakte" - vk.com, Facebook, Youtube, etc.), and of a copyright holder

Actually on
12/02/2024

The rapid development of social networks has led to the fact that different brands are represented in them not only by the owners and users of these brands, but also by their opponents and competitors. Unauthorized use of a trademark (brand) or company name as an account in the social network is often illegal and violates the rights of a trade mark or company name owner. Existing legal tools allow to deal with such use effectively, all the more it can do great damage, including reputational one for a right holder of a trade mark or company name.

Holders of copyright are faced with and the similar problems.

Please become acquainted with those, who entrusted us the protection and our cases (ru).

Price for the typical services:
(the cost of our services can be enforced by action against the losing party)

I. Analysis of the expediency of participation in the trial: free of charge.
The information is given on the basis of the materials, received by e-mail. Only by Russian.

II. Analysis of the available judicial documents and elaboration of the case position: 1.000-3.000 €.

III. Pre-judicial conflict regulation: 1.000-2.500 €.

IV. Participation in the judicial process:
Variants (if a plaintiff and a defendant are in Moscow or the Moscow region):
a) Payment for the whole work up to the end (independently of the term and quantity of courts, court hearings etc.): 3.000-8.000 € (usually 4.500 €),
b) Payment for preparation of the whole case and the hearing in the court of the first instance (independently of the quantity court hearings): 3.000-5.000 € + 1.000-2.500 € per the next one (usually 4.000 + 1.000 €),
c) Payment for preparation of the case and the first hearing in the court: 2.500-4.000 € + 500-1.500 € per the next one (usually 3.500 + 500 €).
In all the cases everything is included:
- preparation of all necessary documents,
- collection of the proofs available,
- notary attestation, all the requests, duties and gatherings.

About money: in all the aforesaid cases we require compensation of the costs, that have been already born (that is effective only in the first variant).
In case of peaceful settlement of the dispute money are returned in part depending on the court’s instance: 20% - 15% - 10%.
We pass the writ of execution concerning the successful case to the bailiff, so we support the transfer of a domain name, but not final enforcement of the judicial act.

The conduct of a case is carried out by the President of “Internet and Law” legal company – Anton Sergo, Prof., Doctor in Law.

IV. Your case: Describe your situation and available documents in details, that will allow to define the perspective exactly and to elaborate acceptable conditions of collaboration.

Note: the stated prices are set for the typical situations and cover around 80% of the works in total. Exclusively the prices may either be decreased or increased: therefore it is necessary to fully describe the existing situation (as well as the necessary result) and send your version to the following e-mail: mail@internet-law.ru, afterwards you will receive the fixed price for your particular task.

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