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This is a Relatip mirror of my regular blog on IP matters in Russia - RussianPatentsBlog.patentsfromru.com |
(Originally posted at Russian Patents blog ) No doubt, you’ve heard the buzz already - Russian company Superfone and its president Oleg Teterin claim they own the rights to reproduce  emoticon and similar derivatives like  and in spite of their being in public use for at least 15 years. Associated Press says that “The Rospatent federal patent agency (aka Russian Patent Office) tells the RIA-Novosti news agency that the symbol was trademarked only as part of the company’s brand and has not been trademarked on its own.” - but AP, RIA-Novosti and Russian Patent Office representative are all wrong - Teterin INDEED has gotten rights for pure emoticon and not for a combined mark - take a look at RU2007719479 trademark certificate which clearly shows it:
 smiley emoticon trademark
[Originally published in Russian Patents blog ] Today I was responding to an inquiry from Israel re process and cost of trademark registration in Russia, and upon finishing my letter I thought that this matter might be of interest to somebody else, so I’m posting it here. Daniel wrote: I anticipate the client will want to know a bottom-line price,
so I would be much obliged if you could run me through, A to Z, on the costs of one
trademark registration in Russia (assuming of course it is not contested). (In
actuality, the client is seeking to register a number of trademarks).
Here is a (updated) quick guide to trademark registration in Russia. Prior to filing trademark application in the territory of Russian Federation,
it is necessary to conduct search on identity and similarity in the
Posted by: Dmitri Bender in Untagged on
Nov 05, 2008
Originally published at Russian Patents blog . We’ve just updated our “Russian trademark search services” page, and that reminded me of a case we came across recently with one of our Chinese clients (an Intellectual Property Agent based in Beijing). They wrote: “During the period of cooperation with another Russian ip firm, we have to conduct trademark search through a Hong Kong firm because Russian charges too much (they just wasn’t acquinted with Patents from RU back when…).
We pay RMB1000 (almost USD140) for one search either for a word mark or combined mark. If you could help conduct search (I suppose the search data should include the registered trademarks and pending applications), we don’t have to turn to the Hong Kong firm. That’ll be very convenient for us. We just entrusted
[Originally published at Russian Patents Blog ] Last week we simultaneously (the same day) received similar inquires from two separate people - one came from the US and another from Spain. These inquires brought my attention to the fact that we forgot to mention this kind of service at our site - gotta fix it, but meanwhile I decided to put up a short post on this matter.
So, the inquiries were like these:
I wish to enter my PCT patent with your firm on Russia. I have 2 PCT patents. You can give nformation (prices at reasonable cost and others) about your office ,so I can enter my PCT nto Russia with your Firm.
and 2nd one:
I need to do a PCT national stage filing in your country by July 27, 2008 (the 31 month priority date), for application PCT/US2006/062***. If this is something you can do
[Originally published at Russian Patents Blog ] Russian patent prior art search seems to be in demand lately - if in the past we received roughly 1 order annually, then this year we’ve been occupied with it continuosly, there is even a small queue for next search. We’ve finished another Russian patent prior art search project back in mid-June, and I feel like saying couple of words about it. The order was placed with us by a large US IP company, and the only concern they had was about project turnaround. Usually it takes us about 2 weeks per IPC subclass. We cannot speed it up. Indeed, it’s quite lengthy. That’s why our client asked: Are your searches done manually or do you use a search engine against databases? Why will take almost 2 months ?
In contrast, a typical search of the US and EU
I'm reposting today's Russian Patents Blog topic. We've been gathering data for our very own inhouse database of trade mark applications filed with Russian Patent Office, and while doing manual double checking of all entries for consistency, I've been making notes of trade marks which catched my attention - these being mostly by foreign applicants and attempts to infringe on well known marks (these will be subject of my next post). I'm not making it a point to post here a scientifically precise data :), so I do not have handy start-end date of the data range processed - roughly, it was 2 month period of 2008 (February-March). As always, the leader is United States of America - US companies filed registration of 87 marks. OK, let's see...companies which already have strong presence in Russia
Posted by: Dmitri Bender in Untagged on
Apr 04, 2008
originally published at Russian Patents Blog Today I came across Prior Smart meta-search engine which searches through number of patent sources - first I read about it at PIUG list and later spotted it mentioned by TechCrunch. All in all, it's another nice attempt to make a specialized patent meta-search engine recently I've also seen Patent Bar toolbar and some kind of Squidoo lens to name just a few. While Prior Smart have its merits (e.g. I was able to easily locate IT patent of an italian inventor I've been in touch on regard of licensing patent in Russia lately), it certainly does have it's limitations, which have
Originally published at Russian Patents Blog Just a couple of words on how mindblowingly creative counterfeiters might be… Today I was given a sealed blanc DVD-R disc - a friend just wanted me to burn recent photos for him.
I was about to rip plastic open, but then a got a familiar feeling again - “what’s wrong with that Hugo Boss logo on disc? Why does it miss H?”
 Suddenly, I realised what I never in my life came across anything by Hugo Boss except
Originally published at Russian Patents Blog I spotted interesting topic at INTA mailing list which correlated with one of most recent cases we were involved with. Q: We have a trade show coming up where we will launch our new product. In anyone’s advice do you suggest we time it so that the trademark is filed only say a few days prior to the show in order for it not to be picked up by a competitor on the USPTO site. Or, on the other hand to be safe, should we just have this filed before we start spending on marketing material etc. My colleague Susan Crane replied: …I would file as soon as possible. You do not want to run the risk that a mark is clear today, you wait until a
tradeshow to file
Posted by: Dmitri Bender in Untagged on
Mar 19, 2008
Originally published at Russian Patents Blog Companies like Coca-Cola, which values its brand name at $34 billion, take a very dim view of trademark infringement.
So I’d better say this in the very beginning of my post: “These materials are presented here for private educational, scholarly, and research uses”, OK? While Russian bombers continue routine patrol missions over the Atlantic Ocean, we continue our routine trademark watch patrol missions over trademark applications recently filed with Russian Patent Office. Yesterday, while sorting through our own database of Russian
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