Article in WIPR: How to cancel an unused trademark

25.10.2017

Our trademark lawyer Annikki Hämäläinen writes in the latest issue of the World Intellectual Property Review about the changes to the cancellation process for unused trademarks in Russia.

Russia-Eurasia, Trademarks

Keywords: russia, trademark, unused trademark´

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HÄMÄLÄINEN ANNIKKI

Head of Trademark Processes, Lawyer, Trademark Attorney

+358 44 251 8882

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