The Ministry of Justice has protected the trademark of the Swiss company Abbot Products Operations AG for the drug Imudon, the department’s press service reports.

Abbot Products Operations AG sent an appeal to the Ministry of Justice with a request to protect intellectual property rights in Uzbekistan.

The agency conducted an investigation and discovered that a local company, E.M.P. produces a medicine with the phonetically similar name Aksan Imudon.

To eliminate the offense, the Ministry of Justice decided to destroy 600 identified counterfeit medicines.

In January, the Ministry of Justice protected the intellectual property rights of the Finnish company Nokia. The courts imposed a fine of almost 24 million soums on 8 people for illegal use of a trademark (Article 177 of the Administrative Responsibility Code).