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Russian patent search trends

Posted on March 7th, 2008 by Editor

It’s quite funny to see Russian patent search inquiries coming in trends. Of course we’re a very small vendor and wouldnt compete with Google Trends in volume of data to analize :), but even tiny trends are entertaining to watch.

Lately, it’s been Aero-Space field.

Top manager of an air carrier company (and author of books on history of aviation) turned for our assistance in attempt to locate Russian patents dated back to 1908-1912.

Then a Chinese customer inquired on 1950-s stuff re certain wing designs.

And yesterday NASA contacted us seeking help in obtaining materials on lunar wheel design.

Hmm, it seems that bears, vodka and snow are not the only things which are of interest – although bear and vodka might be gaining popularity again due to Dmitry Medvedev (bear = Medved) been elected Russian President and certain vodka trademark applications are in the queue 🙂 – here are Medvedeff (targeted at foreign markets) and Medvedevka (that’s for inner market I suppose):

(see also previous post Politics + Trademarks Russian way: “Vladimir Putin” vs “Dmitry Medvedev”