PEPSICO STARTS PATENT WARS ON RUSSIAN KVASS MARKET
January 1st, 2014
PepsiCo has launched a patent claim in the Russian kvass market against the X5 Retail Group, one of Russia’s leading retail chains, alleging its recently registered Russkiy Kvass brand apes PepsiCo’s Russkiy Dar, in label design and marketing. PepsiCo last week filed an objection to the Russian Chamber of Patent Disputes, asking to annul X5’s kvass brand, Anton Drushchits, PepsiCo’s Russia intellectual property protection chief.Both companies source their kvass from Russia’s Deca company which started producing PepsiCo’s Russian Dar in 2010 and ...
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