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Basic information on filing trademark application in Russia

Documents and information required for a foreign applicant:

1. A duly signed Power of Attorney (if the applicant has a corporate seal, it should be affixed to the Power of Attorney).
2. Full legal name and address of the applicant.
3. A list of goods and/or services for which the trademark is to be registered.
4. Specimen of trademark.

General Procedure

After receiving a full instruction and the necessary documents, we can file the application within 1-2 working days. After an application for registration of trademark is filed, the official Notice of Acceptance will be issued by the Russian Patent Office within 1-2 months after the filing date. Then the application will enter into the substantive examination period. In practice, substantive examination can take as long as twelve to fifteen months. After smoothly passing the examination, the trademark will be approved for registration and the registration certificate will be issued.

In general, for a smooth registration, the period from filing to registration is about 12-18 months.

Charges

The charges for filing one trademark application for registration in one class are 550 EURO (including official fee 250 EURO). For each additional class the official fee would be 35 EURO, the service fee for each additional class exceeding three is 25 EURO.

The registration official fee is 270 EURO, service fee is 150 EURO.

So if the trademark passes the examination smoothly, from filing to registration, the total costs for one trademark in one class are 970 EURO.

The aforesaid charges do not include the actual disbursement such as facsimile and postage fees, preparing trademark specimens.