Kazakhstan

Case law, Kazakhstan, Non Use, Russia

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In a previous post titled Trademark Squatting in Kazakhstan: From Russia with Love, we explored how Swedish telecom giant Ericsson successfully defended its trademarks against a Russian company’s attempt to cancel their registration in Kazakhstan. That company, LLC “R-Climate”, a member of the Rusklimat group, had filed lawsuits seeking the early termination of several Ericsson…

Bad faith, Case law, Infringement, Kazakhstan, similarity of goods and services

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In my previous articles—Trademark Squatting in Kazakhstan: From Russia with Love and its Part II—I reported cases where Russian companies attempted to register trademarks of well-known foreign brands in Kazakhstan. This post is now about the equivalent problem in the digital space, where cybersquatting has become a pressing issue: domain names identical or similar to…