Trademark Pirates in Russia - articles on Russian Trademark Warehousers and related issues

• Russian Trademark Pirates forced Starbucks to delay launch of coffeehouses in Russia for almost 10 years
  
• Is where a better way of spotting whether a mark that looks like an invented word might mean something in another language?
  
• Someone's stolen my brand! How Russian trademark warehousers hijacked Starbucks, Amway, Kodak, Subway of their trademarks
  
• Leo Stoller's Russian follower captures foreign trademarks and offers them back to their rightful owners - for $600,000
  
• Starbucks lost the right to the brand after a Moscow lawyer who specializes in claiming unused trademarks succeeded in winning the rights to it
  
• In Russia, Starbucks has taken squatter Sergei Zujkov to court for holding the rights to the Russian trademark for Starbucks LLC.
  
• Lexmark trademark case: now they're convinced they should have registered trademark in Russia
  
• Hennes & Mauritz trying to stop use of H&M’s trademark by the Russian firm
  
• Gmail.ru trademark registered - not by Google