The Federal Intellectual Property Service (Rospatent) detected improper transactions for the transfer of rights to a number of trademarks of the Baltika brewing company in the CIS, Georgia and Mongolia. The newspaper writes about this “Vedomosti”Citing a letter from the Russian department to the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Economic Development and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.
According to the document, the service informed the national patent offices of the CIS countries, Georgia and Mongolia about the improper conduct of proceedings previously carried out to transfer the rights to the Baltika trademark line on the territory of these countries to three foreign legal entities.
“As a result, Kyrgyzpatent suspended the registration of Karlsberg Kazakhstan’s license agreement,” the letter reads.
According to the publication, Baltika claims that on July 19, 2023, “a specific person from the company” transferred the rights to the Baltika trademarks to companies affiliated with the Danish conglomerate Carlsberg: LLC Vista BWY Co. (Belarus), LLC Carlsberg Azerbaijan” as well as Carlsberg Kazakhstan LLP (operating in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Tajikistan, Mongolia, Turkmenistan and Kyrgyzstan). It was claimed that the agreement was signed without the participation of Baltica President Taimuraz Bolloev.
“Rospatent requests patent offices to take into account the information provided in case of receipt of a request for registration of contracts,” the publication says.
Carlsberg in November 2023 requested Compensation for losses caused by Russia due to the transfer of management of Baltika to the Federal Property Management Agency. The company threatened to go to international court if the issue was not resolved within six months.
At the same time, at the end of October, Carlsberg CEO Jacob Arup-Andersen accused Russian authorities are involved in the “theft” of business. In response, the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation rejected accusations, external management called in response to sanctions.
July 16, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed Decree on the transfer of foreign assets of Danone and Baltika to the management of the Federal Property Management Agency. In particular, 98.56% of Baltika shares owned by Carlsberg, 1.35% owned by Hoppy Union LLC and 0.09% held by Carlsberg Deutschland GmbH were transferred to the interim management of the state institution.
Previously Medvedev He thanked After Carlsberg’s criticism, foreigners were offered a strong budget.