Russian trademark applications must be submitted to the Russian Federal Intellectual Property Office. The applicant must submit the prepared materials to the Intellectual Property Office, and the Russian Federal Intellectual Property Office will review the application documents, including formal examination and substance. Review, after the application is submitted, the legality of the submitted application documents, trademark drawings, power of attorney and other documents will be reviewed; if the application is in compliance with the regulations, the application date and application number will be awarded. After passing the formal examination, a substantive examination is conducted. The substantive examination is an examination of whether the trademark applied for registration meets the conditions stipulated in the Trademark Law. Based on the substantive examination, a decision is made to register or reject the application.
After the examining officer believes that the trademark application can be accepted, an announcement will be published in the Russian Official Trademark Gazette. During this period, anyone can raise objections to the trademark application documents. The trademark documents that have been adjudicated by the objection will be Or the trademark file without objection will be approved for registration, and the trademark registration certificate will be issued to the trademark applicant.