Every day, intellectual property protection becomes more important. Companies invest considerable resources in developing their brands. However, all these efforts and investments can be wasted without proper intellectual property protection and registration.

Through its network of partner offices, Sudohod assists in registering trademarks and provides services in a wide range of jurisdictions, enabling clients to secure their intellectual property rights.

Our intellectual property lawyers have extensive experience and a track record of successful cases, ranging from disputes with Rospatent to having advertising recognised as unfair competition.

Key services of the Practice

• Support for any intellectual property dispute (including in IP courts)
• Verification of designations and preparation of a report on protectability of a trademark for registration purposes
• Search for designations in closed FIPS databases
• Search for identical or similar marks or applications
• Detailed written recommendations on improving the registration success

Amendments to the trademark register

• Preparation and submission of necessary documents to Rospatent
• Monitoring of the application review process at Rospatent
• Receipt of documents after amendments have been made

Preparation, verification, registration of trademark rights with Rospatent (license, concession, assignment, contract termination)

• Full support for registration of exclusive industrial property rights under agreements and without agreements

Examination of the client's designation for subsequent registration as a trademark

• Search for identical and similar trademarks to develop a strategy for successful registration of the client's designation

Registration of designations in the Russian Federation

• Filing applications and conducting expert examinations (including full case management, preparation of responses to Rospatent requests and notifications)
• Obtaining a decision on the trademark registration

Madrid system registration of designations (a convenient trademark registration system for extending protection to several foreign countries simultaneously)

• Filing of an international application (specifying all countries of interest) with the International Bureau of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO)
• Payment of basic and national fees for each chosen country
• Separate examination of applications in each country
• Receiving a decision on the trademark registration.

National registration of designations abroad

National registration is a way to register a trademark by filing an application directly in the country of your choice. Such registration can be used in the following cases:

1. if you are interested in registering in only a few countries;
2. if the country of your choice is not a member of the Madrid Agreement

• Filing an application with the patent office, paying fees, monitoring the application review process
• Responding to correspondence from the national patent office with arguments in defence of the designation
• Registering the trademark and entering it in the register
• Obtaining a decision on the trademark registration from the national patent office.

Trademark renewal

• Preparing and submitting a package of documents to Rospatent to renew the exclusive right to a trademark in the Russian Federation.
• Restoring the missed deadline for submitting documents for trademark renewal (if necessary)
• Preparation and submission of a package of documents to Rospatent, monitoring of review deadlines, responses to requests from Rospatent
• Obtaining the original decision of Rospatent (Appendix to the certificate).