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Ongoing through Feb 8	Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore : Twenty-Third Session Geneva, Switzerland
Ongoing through Feb 8	PCT Union - Meeting of International Authorities under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) : Twentieth Session München, Germany
Feb 18 through Feb 22	Special Session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights Geneva, Switzerland
Feb 25 through Feb 28	Standing Committee on the Law of Patents : Nineteenth Session Geneva, Switzerland
Feb 25 through Feb 26	International Patent Classification (IPC) Workshop Geneva, Switzerland
Feb 27 through Mar 1	IPC Union - Committee of Experts : Forty-Fifth Session Geneva, Switzerland
Mar 14 through Mar 16	Licensing Executives Society Annual Conference “Resourcing the Future” Brisbane, Australia

Melisbek and Partners Intellectual Property News

Russia Russian Web Giants’ Expansion Plans Threatened by Google

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Russia Record company demands $131,000 over Blur song

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

WIPO Lithuania Lithuanian Technical Library set up WIPO Depository Library

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

WTO Belarus Kazakhstan Russia Kazakhstan’s attractive and ambitious drugs market

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Sakpatenti Georgia Seminar for Media Representatives

Monday, January 21, 2013

EPOUSPTO EPO and USPTO launch Cooperative Patent Classification

Thursday, January 3, 2013

Tajikistan Tajikistan Accedes to Phonograms Convention

Thursday, December 27, 2012

Russia Russia to produce “Oppah, Gangnam Style” vodka if Psy agrees

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Sakpatenti Georgia Sub-regional Seminar on the Protection of Copyright

Monday, December 17, 2012

Russia Burger King sues Muscovite for trademark infringement

Monday, December 17, 2012

Russia Microsoft win the right to Windows.Ru domain

Friday, November 23, 2012

Lithuania Republic of Lithuania ratified the Singapore Treaty on the Law of Trademarks

Friday, November 23, 2012

Yandex vs Google

When Apple Inc. released new maps for Russia in September, customers wondered why their iPhones showed Moscow streets named after Soviet-era leaders two decades after they had been rechristened.

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Gangnam Style vodka

A Russian company has filed an application to register an “Oppah, Gangnam Style” trademark to produce a variety of beverages, from vodka and cocktails to juices.

Trademark rights to the “Gangnam Style” music hit belong to rapper Psy. Earlier this week the pop star made YouTube history when his “Gangnam Style” became the first video to hit 1 billion views.

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