Russian Patents Blog

We’ve just updated our portfolio of Russian patent translations – this time a US patent attorney wanted us to translate 6 Russian referencies

Just a brief story:
An US patent attorney was looking for a translation service to translate a Russian patent reference. She had a pdf of a Russian patent/patent application and she needed it translated into English. We quickly (as we always do – despite the fact it was Friday night) responded to her inquiry, and we arranged the work. She also told us that “Assuming that we are satisfied with the translation when it is complete, we will also send over five additional references” – they were satisfied, and sent us 5 additional Russian referencies to translate…

Those were the Russian patents to translate:
SU571584 “A method for reverse cementing of casing pipes”
SU1716096 “A method for reverse cementing and design for the implementation of same”
SU1723309 “Design for the reverse cementing of casing pipes”
SU1774986 “A method for reverse cementing of casing pipes”
SU1778274 “A method for reverse cementing of casing pipes”
SU1534183 “A method for reverse cementing of casing pipes”

In case you’re wondering, the cost was US$ 1030.68 (US$0.12/English word).

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While sifting through latest trade mark applications filed in Russia (watching for particular trademark being filed – cause Russian Trademark squatters keep generating profit at the expense of multinationals) I usually make notes of what is being registered.

US companies, as always, dominate – this week I spotted following marks:

USA
General Electric: Monogram
Qualcomm: qxdm professional
NVidia: Nvision
The Saul Zaentz Company: The Lord of the Rings: Shadows of Angmar
Hill’s Pet Nutrition, Inc: culinary creations
MySpace Inc: myspace developer platform a place for developers
Booz Allen Hamilton: booz & company
Deos Group: deos
Luxotica Inc: thermax products for a healthier indoor environment
Disney: Peter Pan
Baxter Inc: altracart, ipump, flo guard, home choice, extranil, nutrinil
BHPC Accotiates: beverly hills polo club

Germany follows – there were 3 companies active:

Sucrest: sucrest
AdLINK: affilinet, ad’link, ad’linkmedia
Volkswagen: trend & fun

Finland and Japan are next:

Finland:
Tikkurila: hybrisil
Orion Corp: divitren

Japan
Nissan: infiniti ex37
Nippon Soda Co,Ltd.: topsin

And I spotted 1 company from following countries:

(France) Kohler France SaS: maxima
(Turkey): acretan-sanovel, seidon-sanovel, celagil-sanovel
(Italy) Gruppo iltaliano vini: mahiavelli, negri, solandia
(British Virgin islands) Haskel Trading Ltd: StarWind, SunWind
(Spain) Technologia & Vitamins: maxilat, tecnovit, norpig
(Sweden) Telelogic: synergy
(UK) Allied Domecq Spirits and Wine Ltd: Leave an impression
(China) Wang Runwu: lesnye ptisy
(Hongkong) Nuoyakate Enterprise: royalcat
(Mexico) Tequila Cuervo: 200 anos

Well, and couple of geographical marks –
Rio-de-Ganeiro – to be trademarked in Russia (note G instead of J)
Krasnaya Polyana (home of Winter Olympics in Russia) – to be trademarked by a Russian company.

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Pravda.ru says: “Putin’s persona, the Vladimir Putin brand, goes out of fashion slowly but surely. Russians are developing a new political addiction – Dmitry Medvedev, Putin’s protege, his official successor. The propaganda machine has been taking great efforts to promote the new brand across Russia. The new brand, Dmitry Medvedev, has thus been outshining his predecessor – Putin.

It is worthy of note that political factors are intertwined with economic ones. Germany’s Die Welt wrote, for example, that the production of vodka under trademark Putinka has been declining in Russia. Until recently, the brand has been brining the profit of 330 million euros a year.

Hardly had Putin pronounced Dmitry Medvedev’s name, when entrepreneurs sent in their applications to Russia’s Patent to register new trademarks the titles of which play with the last name of Putin’s successor (‘medved’ means ‘bear’ in Russian). Putinka may thus been replaced with Medvedevka, Tsar Medved or Vladimir and Medved.”

It’d be interesting to dig out what trade mark applications resembling “Dmitry Medvedev” were filed recently – I’m going to run trademark watch on this Russian mark on my own request 🙂 (Update: here are some results of trademark watch on Medvedev)

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