Articles and Publications
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26 September 2014
The Russian Patent Office rejected registration of a trade mark in application 2012715514 with priority of May 14 2012 in the name of a Russian company Tarantino Ltd Co. The designation is a figurative representation of the relevant name.
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24 September 2014
The imitation of trademarks is still a popular business, despite the courts having established precedents to resolve such conflicts. In 2008 the principle of senior rights was introduced to Russian law, making the protection of such rights a much smoother process.
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1 September 2014
Strange overtones sometimes accompany intellectual property. Usually businesses register trade marks to promote their goods. In this case a Russian company filed a trade mark application for a trade mark Kennedy’s Assassin in class 41 (production and distribution of motion pictures).
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12 August 2014
Do mobile application developers have «safe harbor» against copyright infringement? Sergey Medvedev, Gorodissky & Partners, considers a recent ruling of the Russian IP Court
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16 July 2014
The Russian IP legislation has come of age quickly. In 1992, when the first Russian IP laws were adopted, they were among the first Russian laws (the Civil Code was adopted two years later). Even though they were passed quickly, the laws were of satisfactory quality because they were based on EU law.
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