Posted on 03/28/2015 3:05:15 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The Kalashnikov Group has filed an appeal against a court ruling that rejected its request to terminate the legal protection of the Kalashnikov logo, a 3D image of the famous gun with an AK-47 graphic element, which belongs to the gun designer and his daughter and grandson, the Intellectual Property Court said in a statement.
The ruling in favor of the designer’s family was made on December 23, 2014.
The Presidium of the Intellectual Property Court said that the trademark was used by the rights holder (defendant) and other individuals who produced and marketed the gun in Russia under the rights holder’s control.
The brand was registered by the company M.T. Kalashnikov in 2004, and legal protection was extended in late 2012 through 2022, according to the Federal Service for Intellectual Property, Patents and Trademarks (Rospatent). It also covers clothes, headgear, toys, gaming machines and table games that have the Kalashnikov logo.
The Kalashnikov Group said its lawsuit did not infringe on the rights and interests of Kalashnikov’s heirs and that it had filed the lawsuit to terminate the logo’s legal protection because the designer’s heirs did not use it.
The Kalashnikov Group is an association of the largest companies in the Russian small arms industry. It was established in 2013 and includes Izhmash, the Izhevsk Mechanical Plant, the Vyatskie Polyany Machine Building Plant Molot, the Koshkin Automatic Lines Design Bureau (Klimovsk) and NITI Progress (Izhevsk).
The group exports its products to 27 countries including the US, the UK, Germany, Norway, Italy, Canada, Kazakhstan and Thailand.
when guns are banned, who’s gonna protect your intellectual property rights?
“Kalashnikov” has become one of those brand names that has become a descriptive word for an actual item, like Kleenex, Kotex, and hey....where would I be without all three? LOL! Three K’s no Gal should be without!) :-)
What about Kalashnikov Vodka? Do they still make that? I would love to have a bottle on the shelf.
The good thing about Kalishnikov- Vodka is it never jams.
Ixhevsk is where my Mosin-Nagant was made. It’s been a weapons factory since the time of the tsars.
CC
Izhevsk.
So what about the precourser SKS? I used to own a couple of the Yugosav renditions. Tragically lost in a boating accident. They were delivered to me at a gun show for a cnote the first time and two the second time. It took several cans of carb cleaner to remove the cosmoline. Sweet battle rifle when fitted with larger magazines to accept the ten round stripper clips. Has the SKS got a logo? The things were packed up in 1947 but battle ready to that day when they got lost. I think I’ve seen 100 round drums to fit but fifties and thirties are readily available. Just keep stuffing the stripper clips into the magazine.
Yugoslavia wasn’t licensed to produce SKS’s until 1959, hence the Model 59, and subsequent 59/66 with the inclusion of the grenade launcher. 59/66A1 added luminous night sights.
Thank you sir. I’ll check the numbers tomorrow.
I had the grenade launchers but not the sights. Thank you sir.
I’m still lookin’ for one of those.
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