Trademark registration services in Russia carried out by Russian trademark attorneys based in Moscow

Trademark Watch Services

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Russia uses the "first-to-file" policy. No evidence of use is required upon filing of a trademark application. The rights to the mark will belong to the person who files the application first... ...even if a mark was used for a long time in Russia by another company. But evidence of use might be helpful for restoring rights to the mark, captured by an indecent competitor. Don't wait till Russian trademark warehousers capture your trademark - get an almost real-time monitoring of Russian PTO trademark applications from us.

 

Service	Description	Cost per mark(montly)
Application Watch	Alerts you to confusingly similar trademark applications when FILED at the RUPTO. You'll be alerted the next day after indecent application was filed - think of it as real-time monitoring.	US$15.00
Official Gazette Watch	Alerts you to conflicting published trademarks that appear in the RUPTO Official Gazette.	US$10.00
Ownership Watch	Notifies you when a company your are monitoring files a trademark application with the RUPTO.	US$5.00
Domain Registration Watch	Notifies you when a trademark your are monitoring gets registered as a domain in .RU or .SU zones.	US$5.00

Traditional trademark watch services monitor Official Gazettes. For instance, most recent issue of Russian Patent and Trademark Office Official Gazette (as of today it's #17 for 2007) features trademarks filed two years ago or even earlier.

On the contrary, Application Watch service monitors trademark applications which were filed yesterday - the difference is quite compelling, isn't it? You'll have plenty of time to prepare defense of your trademark, wouldn''t you?

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Request our Schedule of Fees on filing trademark application in Russia and other trademark registration services in Russia by email: dmitri@patentsfromru.com The cost of filing a simple trademark application in Russia, including 1 ICGS class, is US$600. This amount includes both official and Russian trademark attorney fees. Prior to engaging with trademark registration in Russia we'd recommend you to do a trademark registrability search in Russia's trademark databases - it'll save you money and time.

An appropriate application for a trademark registration in Russia must be filed with the Russian Federation State Patent Authority (+RospatentÐ) through a registered patent attorney, who is acting on the basis of a power of attorney.

According to the Trademark Law of Russia, foreign applicants are to register trademarks in Russia solely via patent attorneys registered in Russia. All foreign patent attorneys who offer trademark registration services in Russia are in fact acting as intermediaries for their Russian partners. Naturally, intermediaries add their markup (often 50% and more) to Russian trademark attorneys' fees.

You can avoid paying extra by dealing directly with our company which is based in Russia. Our trademark attorneys are located adjacent the Russia Patent and Trademark Office, we've been dealing with 70 patent attorneys and many direct clients from 70+ countries.

An application for Trade Mark registration in Russia may be filed in a black-and-white and colour representation. Registrable are word, figurative, combined, sound, smell, three-dimensional and other types of designations serving for goods individualisation, works performed and services rendered by legal or natural persons. One application may include any number of ICGS classes.

Orders to register trademarks in Russia and other countries of CIS could be sent to us by e-mail, fax or mail.

What documents are required to register a trademark in Russia? You need to send following documents in order to start the filing proceeding: Designation to be protected and Trademark type (word, logo, combined, device) A complete list of goods or services on which the trademark will be used (preferably grouped according to the Nice Classification) 1 quality image of a mark (except for marks in plain block letters) Information about applicant: official name, legal address, country (indicating a state) a signed Power of Attorney by email and regular mail (we will provide the form)

Please note that we can file Convention applications within one business day. Certified copy of a priority application may be submitted within three months from the filing date.

We'll be sure to warn you if the trademark has any adverse meaning in Russian language.

Please note: Russia uses the "first-to-file" policy

As our colleagues PatSGr note it, "no evidence of use is required upon filing of a trademark application. The rights to the mark will belong to the person who files the application first, even if a mark was used for a long time in Russia by another company. But evidence of use might be helpful for restoring rights to the mark, captured by an indecent competitor.

There were cases when an established firm had been importing its goods into Russia for several years and its business reached a good turnover, but it somehow did not think of registration of its mark in this country. Then it appeared that its mark was already registered by another small firm which did not produce any goods and did not use the mark, but just held rights for it in full accordance with the Russian legislation. And this small firm approached the importer and claimed violation of its trademark rights and demanded payment of compensation for the unauthorised use of the registered mark.

There are certain firms in Russia that hunt for the actually used but not registered marks, they register the marks in their name and then approach the legitimate mark owner with the demand for compensation. This poses a problem, which could be solved, but rather it should be prevented. Before actual importation of any goods into Russia, the marks should be duly registered, particularly it is important to register the company name as trademark, if it is used on the goods."