Originally published at Russian Patents blog
Back in August 2009 we introduced an optional service – free trademark search in Russia. My opinion on what free search is good for is known and well worded directly at the page we offer the service at.
Since August we received only one inquiry for free search in Russian trademarks (as compared to tens of inquiries for regular Russian trademark search) – and results of the free search only cemented my opinion that free trademark search in Russia being total and complete waste of time and totally misleading.
Here is the story – rather short, and structured in the table for your convinience.
| | Client: | Patents from RU: |
| 1 | My employer has asked me to determine whether we will be able to trademark our company & product name, OurCompanyProduct, |
(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
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