Russian Patent Office is on hiatus

Russian Civil Code has changed, and it didn’t come unnoticed in the West (see IP Factor comment). Russian patent office is yet to publish Russian Civil Code… Accordign to Kommersant Daily, the procedures for intellectual property protection could’t be applied starting from the New Year. Russia’s Federal Service for Intellectual Property, Patents and Trademarks (Rospatent) […]

Holder of a Russian Patent Resumes Patent Spat With Motorola

Satellite navigation technology firm RussGPS said Tuesday it was pursuing the payment of fees from a number of mobile phone operators that it claimed were exploiting technology it patented. RussGPS caused a furor last year when it accused Motorola of using its technology in the production of some of its mobile handsets, thereby infringing its […]