Publication / Marina Golovnitskaya, Yauheni Budchanka, Maksim Salahub, Kaupo Lepasepp, Mirell Prosa, Oliver Kuusk, Rūta Vaicekauskaitė-Jasionė, Paulius Mockevičius, Monika Mališauskaitė-Vaupšienė, Stasys Drazdauskas, Ieva Andersone, Linda Sarāne-Reneslāce, Andris Tauriņš, Jūlija Terjuhana, Private: Gunvaldis Leitens
Our team share another piece of intellectual property (IP) news in the Belarus-Baltics region telling about curious cases, news in legislation, and some measures taken by governments due to the COVID-19 pandemic which may still be helpful to business (mainly extension of statutory deadlines and, in some cases, waiver of statutory duties). IP news from […]
Publication / Stasys Drazdauskas, Paulius Mockevičius, Aušrinė Dambrauskaitė
NASCAR drives for success in trademark dispute Represented by Sorainen, the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) won a court case over its trademark in Lithuania. The dispute arose after a pharmaceutical company attempted to register “Nascar” as a trademark for medicine-related goods. Even though NASCAR did not use its brand to mark […]
Belarus: will it be possible to apply for international trademark registration in Russian? WIPO: positive The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has approved inclusion of Russian in the list of languages for filing applications for international protection of trademarks and designs. At the moment only English, French and Spanish are included in this list and […]