{"id":2220,"date":"2018-06-19T07:32:56","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T07:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dekuzu.com\/en\/?p=2220"},"modified":"2018-06-19T07:32:56","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T07:32:56","slug":"the-russian-court-awarded-3-7-billion-roubles-for-trademark-infringement-but-there-is-no-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dekuzu.com\/en\/2018\/06\/the-russian-court-awarded-3-7-billion-roubles-for-trademark-infringement-but-there-is-no-winner.html","title":{"rendered":"The Russian court awarded 3.7 billion Roubles for trademark infringement, but there is no winner"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One Russian publishing house has registered a trademark depicting a Russian letter \u201c\u0424\u201d in the form of globe. The sign means that the schoolbook complies with federal state educational standards. This publishing house has filed against another Russian publishing house for trademark infringement. The plaintiff asserted defendant marketed approximately 600 types of production (about 5 mln copies) with plaintiff\u2019s image, depicting on cover, substantially similar to plaintiff\u2019s trademark.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The court sided<\/a> with plaintiff. The court ordered to seize and destroy all printed infringing copies of schoolbooks at the expense of defendant. Defendant did not agree with court. It believes, even if its sign similar to plaintiff\u2019s trademark, it is meaningless to require 3.7 bln Roubles, because its use could not lead to such enormous loss of plaintiff. In a case if plaintiff\u2019s requirements are satisfied, the defendant is bankrupt. Actually the plaintiff does not have good chances to receive such sum \u2013 the value of defendant\u2019s assets much lesser that plaintiff requested in court.<\/span><\/p>\n

How plaintiff calculated the sum of damages? The cost of book issue has been multiplied by the quantity of its copies. The resulting sum has been again multiplied by 2 in order to receive \u201cthe double cost of counterfeited copies of works required by Russian law\u201d. The court satisfied plaintiff\u2019s requirements in relation to damages. But it is not so simple. The trademark has been registered long time ago, but defendant decided to challenge its registration and succeeded. The Russian intellectual property service (Rospatent) has annulled<\/a> plaintiff\u2019s trademark registration.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Defendant has proved that signs are descriptive because \u201crefer to certain quality \u2013 compliance of schoolbook with educational standards\u201d. Defendant also argued that exploitation of controversial signs can mislead readers and contravene to public interests. Defendant made a thin hint that the plaintiff is a trade mark troll \u2013 it uses controversial signs in order to attack competitors, but failed to prove original or obtained distinctive feature controversial signs. But the plaintiff is surprised with decision of RosPatent; its trademark has been designed by its senior artist, it is \u201coriginal\u201d sign. So in order to receive 3,7 bln Roubles the plaintiff must appeal RosPatent\u2019s decision and it waits for its motivational part.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One Russian publishing house has registered a trademark depicting a Russian letter \u201c\u0424\u201d in the form of globe. The sign means that the schoolbook complies with federal state educational standards. This publishing house has filed against another Russian publishing house<\/p>\n

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