Ekaterina
Kalinicheva

Partner
Head of Practice
Dispute Resolution

Education: Russian State Academy of Intellectual Property (RSAIP), Specialist Degree, Legal Protection of Intellectual Property, with honors

Specialization: IP litigation
Pre-litigation dispute resolution
Online piracy monitoring and takedown services
Digital investigations
Digital IP research and analysis

Achievements: Ranked individually among Russia’s top lawyers in Pravo-300 and globally in Best Lawyers
Speaker at leading Russian EdTech platforms, including Netology, GeekBrains, and Moscow Digital School, covering IP protection for creative entrepreneurs in Moscow
Co-authored Pravo.ru’s professional education course “Copyright Law: From Theory to Practice”

Recovered RUB 8+ million in compensation from zaycev.net for unauthorized content distribution

Participated in a project resulting in removal of 30,000+ counterfeit product listings from marketplaces for a leading international anime brand

Represented the world’s largest academic publisher in litigation against a platform that provided unauthorized access to tens of millions of research articles. The defendant’s platform was added to Russia’s national registry of blocked websites

In a landmark ruling under the Russian mobile app blocking law, successfully obtained removal of a pirated mobile application from Google Play, resulting in the first-ever blocking of illegal app access in Russia

Ekaterina Kalinicheva

Ekaterina
Kalinicheva