Following the strategic cancellation attempts seen in the Ericsson and Sanyo cases, another trademark dispute has reached a Kazakhstani court, this time involving a Ukrainian trademark holder and a cancellation action brought by a Russian claimant. The case concerns the Ukrainian company Kormotech, owner of the internationally registered trademark “КЛУБ 4 ЛАПИ”, and a non-use…
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…
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…
