Kazakh confectioners call for the harmonization of the Customs Union legislation in relation to the Soviet confectionery brands

Kazakh producers of sweets offered to harmonize the legislation of the Customs Union in the field of protection of intellectual property rights. At the moment, bakers of Kazakhstan can not supply them issued by the Soviet candy brands in Russia because of the patent protection of trademarks. While the Russian producers during the first six months 2012 year increased their share in the Kazakhstan market of imported sweets to 73%.

Советские кондитерские бренды в Российской Федерации имеют правообладателя и поэтому ввоз кондитерских изделий на таможенную территорию России требует его согласия. In practice, to get his Kazakh companies proved impossible. With the creation of the Customs Union are invited to sign an agreement between the two countries – parties on mutual recognition in the CU countries registered trademarks (ie. trademarks, registered in Kazakhstan, shall be valid and recognized in Russia, Belarus, and vice versa). Besides, It proposed to create a single application for a trademark, having the force of the Customs Union countries. Signing of the agreement would be a much expanded range of exported confectionery products without copyright infringement.

meanwhile, problems confectionery supplies Russia faced many Kazakh producers.

As explained by the President of Kazakhstan Association of confectioners Larisa Konstantinidi, Confectioners Association is the owner of 37 Collective trademarks, which we worked all factories in Kazakhstan during the Soviet era. At the moment, all the factories, which came into association, have the right to use these marks in the Republic of Kazakhstan.

According to Ms. Konstantinidi, the problem of using the same type of characters should now quite sharply. Almost all confectioneries, whose candies are available in Russian, We are experiencing it.

A recent statement by the head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) Russian Federation Igor Artemyev, also calls for a decision on the status of Soviet trademarks of confectionery. According to Artemyev, this problem should be resolved at the TC Summit.