Russian manufacturers who have received the right to supply their products to China cannot register their brands, because this has already been done by Chinese entrepreneurs, Kommersant reports, citing the Deputy Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation Oksana Lut.
"We signed a protocol on the access of dairy products to China at the end of 2018, and we were faced with problems related to the promotion of these products," explained Oksana Lut. The first of ten companies that gained access to the Chinese market, first decided to take up packaging, taste, and then remembered about the trademark registration." In early 2019, the company filed an application for registering its brand in China and found that another company, but established by Chinese entrepreneurs, did so a month earlier. Now, Russian companies will have to negotiate with the owners of trade brands in China, or to litigate.
Source: Sphere Publishing House.
