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 [...]

A quick guide to trademark registration in Russia

Q3: could you give us your quotation for trademark from
filing application up to registration in Russia?

A3: here is a 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 official database of registered trademarks of Russia.
This search [...]

Articles on trademark registration matters in Russia

We started posting articles on trademarks matters in Russia, here is a list of recent ones:

Russian Trademark Pirates forced Starbucks to delay launch of coffeehouses in Russia for almost 10 years

Is where a better way of spotting whether a mark that looks like an
invented word might mean something in another [...]