Articles and Publications

1 October 2024

A new trace of practice has been noticeable on the horizon. Salitaco Ltd., a Russian company, filed a trademark application No 2022715392 for SORMEC. SORMEC is the name of an Italian company that manufactures equipment for maritime ships. This co-occurrence is hardly coincidental because the Russian company manufactures the same maritime equipment (https://salitaco.ru) and prefers to register the name of an Italian company as a trademark instead of its own.

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12 September 2024

Companies that have left the market are in jeopardy because of the non-use of their trademarks. Many of them, as a wise precaution, should re-file their trademarks to keep their trademark rights.

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31 August 2024

The problem begins when a divisional application spawns from the application divided from the initial application and thus becomes a third application. The wording of Article 1381 includes the word “initial”, that may be differently understood by the patent office, several court instances and IP practitioners.

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29 August 2024

In March 2024, Russian IP court adopted “Recommendations of the Scientific Advisory Council regarding suppression of infringement of exclusive rights”). The “Recommendations” reflected the following domain-related trends.

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26 August 2024

Foreign companies indeed curtailed their filing activity in Russia. This prompted Russian companies to search published patent applications in foreign countries and use the technologies disclosed therein since they are not protected in Russia. As for registered patents and trademarks they are fully protected and enforced when necessary.

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