Trademark matters: you need authorization from the Russian government to use the word “Russia” in your name

A U.S. company is demanding that U.S. cable providers stop broadcasting Russia Today television after the channel’s trademark application was rejected in the United States.
IPD Group, which runs Russiatoday.com, said in a statement Wednesday that it had sent letters to U.S. cable providers Comcast and Intelsat, among others, demanding that they pull Russia Today from [...]

Should we have trademark filed before we start spending on marketing material?

Today I spotted interesting topic at INTA (International Trademark Assotiation) 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 [...]

Russian patent search trends

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 [...]