How "patent trolls" absence hundreds of thousands of rubles for Russian entrepreneurs for ordinary words and phrases
In 2023, producers of souvenirs in Russia began to massively receive complaints and lawsuits for the use of various inscriptions, mostly joking, on their products. The same company from Kazan sends them out - entrepreneurs call it a "patent troll." The company registers popular phrases like “I need”, “forever young, always drunk”, “there is no reason not to drink” as trademarks.