Apple delivered an ultimatum to Yandex
Apple wants to compete with shopping malls, unofficially selling its devices, and beginning with references to "Yandex". But the requirement to remove from search results, all trading centers, the title of which is the word "apple", "Yandex" has categorically refused to meet.
Senior counsel "Yandex" Sergey Kugushev during meetings of the working groups at the expert Council of the Federal Antimonopoly service said about the Apple complaint, addressed to the largest Russian search engine. According to his statement, the adepts of the company demanded be removed from Yandex.Market all trading centers that use the word "apple" in their own domain names, but the search engine refused.
According to Kutusheva, the trademark "apple" in the sale of products owned by LLC "Unicap". According to reliable sources of Rospatent, the company filed an application for its registration in early December 1995. Taking into account the opinion of the adept "Yandex", similar disputes between owner and trade center should be resolved in court, told "Kommersant". In Runet about 60 active online stores that use the word "apple" in the domain name. Director of Infoline-Analytics Mikhail Burmistrov believes that Apple's action in respect of such trading centers caused by the desire to promote their own English online-store Apple Store, which is also presented in Yandex.Market".
Not only is Apple concerned with the introduction of the brand in the title or domains of third-party online stores. Firms Samsung and Miele has achieved close of such trading centers by judicial decision. It is likely, and "Apple" of the company will have to resort to this, because "no such thing as "output"in the law no. If under the grant refers to the results of the search request of the user, the violations on the part of the owner of the site no," explained lawyer legal group "Intellectual property" Alexander Golovin. A trademark is given priority only when it is registered before the domain.
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