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Regarding the registration of trademarks, an increase of 17.80 per cent was seen. The increase in the number of registered trademarks in 2018 in comparison to 2017 occurred both due to an increase in Russian applicants (of 28.38%) and for foreign applicants (by 4.64%).
Table 1
2017 | 2018 | % 2018/2017 | |
Total number of trademark and service mark applications filed, including: | 73510 | 76062 | 103,47 |
- by Russian applicants | 46600 | 49122 | 105,41 |
- by foreign applicants | 26910 | 26940 | 100,11 |
of which under international registration procedures | 17178 | 17404 | 101,32 |
Total number of trademarks and service marks registered, including: | 56030 | 66006 | 117,80 |
- in the name of Russian applicants | 31062 | 39880 | 128,39 |
- in the name of foreign applicants | 24968 | 26126 | 104,64 |
of which under international registration procedures | 15965 | 16753 | 104,94 |
Other matters and useful links (URLs): annual report of the Office, news page, statistics, etc.
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Matters concerning classifying
(i) Classification and reclassification activities; classification systems used, e.g., International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of the Registration of Marks (Nice Classification), International Classification of the Figurative Elements of Marks (Vienna Classification), other classification
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- preparation of proposals concerning amendments to the 11-th 11th edition of the 2018 version of NCL, to the 28-th session 28th session of the Committee of Experts on the Nice Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of the Registration of Marks.
-preparation of the official translation into Russian of terms used in the 11-th edition 11th edition of the 2019 version of NCL, ‘NCL (11-2019)’;
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Rospatent publications on trademarks are presented in Table 2.
Тable 2
Publication Title | Form of Publication | Frequency of Publication |
Official publications of Rospatent on trademarks, service marks, appellations of origin and certificates for the right to use an appellation of origin | ||
Trademarks, Service Marks and Appellations of Origin Official Gazette on electronic carrier with search system(primary publication), including the following sections: Trademarks and Service Marks |
Bibliographic data; images (where available); list of goods and/or services (where available) for applications received after October 1, 2014. |
Twice per month |
| Bibliographical data; appellation of origin; indication of goods, for individualization of which appellation of origin has been registered and/or exclusive rights therein have been granted (except information containing a description of the product’s special properties) (where available); indication of place of origin (production) of good (borders of geographical subject) (where available) for applications received after October 1, 2014. | |
Trademarks and service marks | Bibliographical data, images, list of goods and/or services. | |
Appellations of origin | Bibliographic data, appellation of origin, indication of goods, and also indication of place of origin (production) of a good (borders of the geographical subject). Information concerning certificates for the right to use an appellation of origin is also published. | |
Trademarks Well-Known in the Russian Federation | Published with a selection of exhibits approved by the normative documents of Rospatent. | |
Notifications | Information on the changes made to the Electronic State Registers of Trademarks, Service Marks and Appellations of Origin and the List of Trademarks Well-Known in the Russian Federation is published. Information is supplied by the corresponding subdivisions of the Institute and Rospatent in the established form. In this section notifications concerning trademarks protected in Russian Federation due to international registration are also published. | |
Court decisions on the infringement of patent owners’ rights | Court decisions on infringement of patent owners’ rights (at the request of a patent owner) | |
Annual Rospatent Activity Report for 2017 (on CD and on website) | Structure and composition of data determined by Rospatent | Once per year |
During 2018, the Trademarks, Service Marks and Appellations of Origin Official Gazette has been posted on the website of the Federal State Budgetary Institution, the Federal Institute of Industrial Property, which is subordinate to Rospatent, in the Official Publications section, and is freely available, constituting a functional and comprehensive information source. The ISSN number is 2313-7452. Gazette documents are in PDF format.
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Rospatent publications on trademarks are presented in Table 2.
Тable 2
Publication Title | Form of Publication | Frequency of Publication |
Official publications of Rospatent on trademarks, service marks, appellations of origin and certificates for the right to use an appellation of origin | ||
Trademarks, Service Marks and Appellations of Origin Official Gazette on electronic carrier with search system(primary publication), including the following sections: Trademarks and Service Marks |
Bibliographic data; images (where available); list of goods and/or services (where available) for applications received after October 1, 2014. |
Twice per month |
| Bibliographical data; appellation of origin; indication of goods, for individualization of which appellation of origin has been registered and/or exclusive rights therein have been granted (except information containing a description of the product’s special properties) (where available); indication of place of origin (production) of good (borders of geographical subject) (where available) for applications received after October 1, 2014. | |
Trademarks and service marks | Bibliographical data, images, list of goods and/or services. | |
Appellations of origin | Bibliographic data, appellation of origin, indication of goods, and also indication of place of origin (production) of a good (borders of the geographical subject). Information concerning certificates for the right to use an appellation of origin is also published. | |
Trademarks Well-Known in the Russian Federation | Published with a selection of exhibits approved by the normative documents of Rospatent. | |
Notifications | Information on the changes made to the Electronic State Registers of Trademarks, Service Marks and Appellations of Origin and the List of Trademarks Well-Known in the Russian Federation is published. Information is supplied by the corresponding subdivisions of the Institute and Rospatent in the established form. In this section notifications concerning trademarks protected in Russian Federation due to international registration are also published. | |
Court decisions on the infringement of patent owners’ rights | Court decisions on infringement of patent owners’ rights (at the request of a patent owner) | |
Annual Rospatent Activity Report for 2017 (on CD and on website) | Structure and composition of data determined by Rospatent | Once per year |
During 2018, the Trademarks, Service Marks and Appellations of Origin Official Gazette has been posted on the website of the Federal State Budgetary Institution, the Federal Institute of Industrial Property, which is subordinate to Rospatent, in the Official Publications section, and is freely available, constituting a functional and comprehensive information source. The ISSN number is 2313-7452. Gazette documents are in PDF format.
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In 2018, hereinafter, VPTB of FIPS held 6 thematic meetings of heads and officers of FIPS and Rospatent with representatives of business community on introduction to law enforcement practice, new approaches to pendency of trade mark applications and applications for geographical indications, as well as on official publications (including publications on trademarks) available on the FIPS website. Furthermore VPTB held 12 thematic meetings on training to work with the electronic filing system for trademark applications. These 18 meetings were attended by 131 participants, who took part via videoconferencing, organized by entities, which have the juice of TISCs: Belgorod national research university, State Public Scientific and Technological Library of Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Novosibirsk), Saratov state university, Nothern Northern (Arctic) Federal University n/a M.V. Lomonosov (Arkhangelsk), the Ural Federal University n/a the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin (Yekaterinburg).
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