After McDonald’s exited Russia as part of sanctions by Western countries, a Russian canned foods company had filed a trademark resembling the McDonald’s golden arches for its Uncle Vanya fast-food chain (golden arches turn sideway with red background) on March 20, 2022. The Cyrillic letter in
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On a decree issued by Moscow early last March, Russia has effectively legalised patent theft from anyone affiliated with countries Moscow deem ‘unfriendly’. The decree had declared that unauthorise use of patent will not be penalised. Russian officials had also raised the possibility of lifting
A court in Russia recently ruled that the cartoon featuring Peppa, the pig and her family and friends can be copied by businesses across Russia without any concern of violation of trademark infringement. The move might be retaliation to sanctions imposed on Moscow by the UK and its allies after the
Purdue Research Foundation (PRF) is claiming that the software in the Android Studio and Android Lint programs infringed U.S. Patent No. 10,379,925, which was granted to PRF in 2019. Patent ‘925, titled “Systems and Methods of Detecting Power Bugs,” covers software that detects “power bugs”