The Russian Court for Intellectual Property (IP court) referred to the Constitutional Court the conformity of Article 1483 clause 6 part 3 and Article 1508 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation (the Civil Code) in conjunction with each other, to the extent that they allow to prevent the registration of a trademark on the ground of an existing well-known mark, which on the priority date of the challenged mark had neither well-known mark status nor an application filed for registration as such…
