Articles and Publications

A Swiss company named BGRP GmbH obtained the international trademark No 1584115 SARTORIA MASTROIANNI for Classes 03,18 and 25 to extend registration to Russia.

The Russian internet technology (IT) sector evolves rapidly and gains new opportunities for legislative developments. Among other legislative initiatives, the government recently adopted a decree launching an experiment to promote and develop the use of open-source projects in Russia.

Vladimir Bashkirov, Head of Patent Search Department, and Alexander Budkin, Patent Search Expert, of Gorodissky & Partners evaluate the new methodology and reporting for the new Russian State Standard on Patent Studies.

Based on numerous publications in the media one may conclude that the IP rights of foreign companies are no longer protected in Russia and existing IP rights will be unenforceable. Of course, this is not the case and it does not correspond to reality at all.

Evgeny Alexandrov, Alexey Kratiuk, and Alexander Nesterov of Gorodissky & Partners provide an overview of the protection of trademarks and the risk of identical or similar marks in the Russian market, explaining why registration and renewal are paramount.