FAS opened a case for plagiarism of “Bukvar” after a complaint from “Eksmo”

The service opened a case for violation of paragraph 2 of Art. 14.6 of the Federal Law “On Protection of Competition”, which introduces a ban on unfair competition through the creation of a product that is confusingly similar to the original.

As Eksmo clarified, the FAS organized a commission to examine the case of violation of antitrust legislation. The service itself confirmed to the publication the beginning of the case, clarifying that it is a case of unfair competition.

We’re talking about imitating the cover design elements of a competing company’s literature. If proven guilty, the offender faces a fine. According to this article, for officials it ranges from 12 to 20 thousand rubles, for legal entities – from 100 to 500 thousand rubles.

The company will also have to stop publishing this training manual.

The essence of the complaint.

Eksmo’s claims are related to a series of speech therapy manuals “I speak correctly”, “Primer” and “The speech therapist in your house” by Nadezhda Zhukova. The complaint was filed in September of last year. The publisher estimates the damage at 5 million rubles.

According to Eksmo, Simbat produces a series of primers and speech therapy aids under the Umka brand, the design of which is confusingly similar to the design of the publisher’s own series.

The company believes that copying the corporate style of the original Eksmo series misleads readers. And the author of educational literature is Nadezhda Zhukova’s namesake – Maria Zhukova.