Elena Pavlova works on the procedural infrastructure of IP protection in Russia — the opposition proceedings, registry filings, and court monitoring that determine whether a foreign brand owner's rights are maintained, enforced, or lost to administrative default. Intellectual property enforcement in Russia is procedurally intensive: deadlines are specific, filing requirements are technical, and the consequences of a missed step are difficult to reverse. Elena's practice is built around ensuring that those steps are not missed.
As an associate in the firm's IP enforcement practice, she handles Rospatent opposition proceedings, manages the firm's TROIS customs register filings for foreign rights holders, monitors IP Court proceedings, and serves as the primary liaison with overseas IP counsel coordinating Russian enforcement actions as part of multi-jurisdictional brand protection programmes. Her work supports the practice lead, Elizaveta Razina, on the enforcement and registry side of the IP practice — the side that operates on deadlines, registry rules, and administrative procedure rather than courtroom advocacy. For foreign brand owners, Elena's work is the work that keeps the Russian trademark portfolio in order between the disputes: the filings that maintain the registration, the monitoring that identifies the infringement, and the customs registry that intercepts the counterfeit goods at the border.