Trademark Registration Refusal
What are the usual reasons for a trademark registration refusal in Russia?
Apart from so-called relative grounds for refusal (likelihood of confusion with other rights protected in Russia), there are four basic (absolute) grounds for rejecting a trademark application, namely:
- the claimed designation lacks distinctiveness;
- it contains misleading, confusing or deceptive elements;
- it contains elements that are contrary to public policy or to accepted principles of morality;
- it consists of official arms, flags or other state emblems.
The most relevant and often used reasons for objecting to an application are that the trademark at issue lacks distinctiveness or is misleading.
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