Trademark disputes in Russia

Our foreign companies are not only competing between each other but with Russian enterprises coming on the market with quite similar trademarks as well. There was a dispute about the trademark "Kopeika" between Moscow and Petersburg companies in an Arbitration court. The Petersburg company won. They tried the Patent Chamber to cancel the registration of "Kopeiki". But the Moscow firm got the trademark "Kopeiki" and the Petersburg firm "Kopeika" but there is no difference. They use it in the slogan "narodnaya kopeika na vsegda", so what for? There was a dispute between a Petersburg producer of frozen pudding, with the brand "FEP Morosco" and "Talasto" producing products under the name "Maslenitsa" and it was a victory of Morosco but Talasto just changed the name in "Masteritsa"(phonetically no difference) and left in the design as it was: so again a piracy victory. A similar compromise found the company "Daria" and the firm "Baltimore" producing kitchenware. Baltimore changed their Mark "Krasnaja Daria" in "Krasnodarie" and thatīs all : phonetically no difference. The beer producer "Zhigulyovskaya" from Samara tried to cancel 30 in the Soviet area well known Marks arising that they were now generic but he lost. The Patent Office kept in force all the marks. The mark "Jigulevska" was not registered as this was a certain kind of beer and no a trademark.

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