Top 5 Unusual Trademarks
Registering a trademark is a very important step in protecting your business. Without registration of rights to your brand, you will not be able to protect yourself from scammers. However, Rospatent sometimes receives very interesting applications.
The top 5 unusual applications for the brand were compiled by the patent and legal bureau of the Intellectual Capital law firm.
The 5th place in the ranking was taken by the Hermitage Cat trademark.
Cats have been living in the Hermitage for a long time (since the 18th century), each cat has its own passport and veterinary book. The main function of cats is to protect exhibits from rodents. Officially, the number of cats on the territory of the museum does not exceed 50 individuals, and if their number increases, then the extra ones are distributed to everyone. Every year in the spring, a celebration of the Hermitage Cat Day is held. And now there will be goods under a single trademark.
Bitruble takes the 4th place.
The QIWI payment system recently registered new domains for its Bitruble trademark. QIWI will be the first Russian company in the virtual currency market. According to the company's plans, bitruble will appear in circulation next year.
The top three is opened by the Monastico brand.
A few years ago it was impossible to imagine that such things as trademark registration and the Valaam Monastery are compatible. And now the Valaam Monastery officially releases a line of products from eggs and fish to Italian mozzarella, cachotta, morlacco, ricotta cheeses.
The 2nd place is occupied by the Khodorkovsky brand.
While Mikhail Khodorkovsky was serving his sentence, applications were filed in a number of countries for the trademark "Khodorkovsky" and "Khodorkovsky". Under this brand, it will soon be possible to buy household appliances, paper and even clothes in stores.
And finally, the brand "Coffin for rent" takes the first place in the top.
The authors of the application are proud to be the first to offer a coffin rental service (the rental price will be from 500 rubles to 7 thousand rubles per day). The purpose of this service is to allow people to have a decent ceremony with a good coffin, and to have a burial in an ordinary inexpensive coffin.