Report: Foreign Trade Mark Registrations in Russia by Country and Companies for Two Months of 2008

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 [...]

Trademark patrol reveals another Coca Cola’s trademark infringement in Russia?

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 [...]

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 [...]