[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
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
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
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