Trademark Prosecution Trends And Developments In Russia (Video)

According to the law, the courts should have the right to reduce compensation at the request of the defendant taking into account all the circumstances relevant to the case.

The EAEU trademark Treaty that introduces a new regional trademark and appellations of origin protection system was signed in Moscow on February 3, 2020 by five member-states of the EAEU: Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Russia.

The Covid-19 pandemic has created enormous challenges for businesses and officials and disrupted the normal course of life and work for all people worldwide.

The road map includes 24 measures focused on the development of the intellectual property concept.

In this video you will learn more about registering personal names as trademarks in Russia and why you should do so, what consequences and benefits there are when doing such a procedure.

Rospatent has stated its intention to introduce amendments into the Civil Code of the Russian Federation as to the registration of applications on the IP objects.

In the spring this year Russian perfume maker Natalia Kolyago succeeded in obtaining trademark rights for a leather tag with a strong leather smell.

This means trademark laws in EAEU countries has been harmonised and cooperation in this sector should be easy.

Last month the Ninth Commercial Court of Appeals upheld the April 2012 Moscow Commercial Court’s ruling, which upheld Russian PTO’s refusal to grant to Baltika Breweries, the largest Russian brewery, the Zatecky Gus trademark registration.

According to Rospatent, a new accelerated procedure for the consideration of applications for the registration of trademarks, inventions and utility models in Russia was approved.

French champagne producer Louis Roederer cannot sell its Cristal champagne in Russia anymore, after losing a long legal battle against the Russian vodka manufacturer Soyuzplodoimport.

This article provides background information on the purpose and origins of this new legislation, then it describes the new IP object in comparison with the existing protection...

On September 22, 2010, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the Russian Federal Service for Intellectual Property, Patents and Trademarks (Rospatent) signed an agreement under which Rospatent will serve as an International Searching Authority (ISA) and International Preliminary Examining Authority (IPEA) under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) for international applications received by the USPTO.

On August 7, the Moscow Commercial Court dismissed the Russia-based Businessinvestgroup’s legal action seeking to cancel the protection of the IRON BREW, IRN-BRU, Iron Brew and PHENOMENAL trademarks belonging to the Scottish soft drink manufacturer AG Barr, on the grounds of non-use in Russia.

In April 2022, World Trademark Review Weekly published an article speculating what the impact increasing Western sanctions on Russia would have on international brands.

Ilya Goryachev, Senior Lawyer (Gorodissky & Partners, Moscow), gave a presentation at the Webinar "Best practices of domain name disputes in Russia" held by Gorodissky & Partners.

According to the decision No. 8-P ruled by the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation on February 13, 2018, taken by results of consideration of the complaint of the interested party...

As noted in our client alert on April 20, 2022, Cooley continues to monitor the ever-changing situation in Russia and Ukraine following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

The last couple of months have seen a number of publications alleging that protection of intellectual property in Russia does not exist any longer.