The owner of the rights to the Dendy and Mega Drive trademarks in the Russian Federation, Pavel Baskakov, filed a lawsuit in an intellectual property rights court to remove protection of the Sega trademark and logo. Kommersant reports about it.
An individual entrepreneur demands the partial removal of legal protection of several trademarks bearing the name and logo of Sega, owned by the international Japanese video game company.
The requirement concerns the removal of protection for the categories of software, video games, game discs and arcade machines.
The lawsuit was filed on September 29, but was dropped on October 4. The court argued that the plaintiff did not provide evidence of Sega’s pretrial offer.
Sega hasn’t released game consoles since 2001, but the company publishes video games such as Football Manager, Total War, Company of Heroes and others. This year, the company bought the Finnish developer of the popular Angry Birds game, studio Rovio Entertainment Oyj. The amount of the transaction was 706 million euros.
Since March 2022, Sega has limited sales of its PC products in the Russian Steam segment.
Pavel Baskakov owns the Dendy, Titan, Mega Drive and Magistr brands in Russia.
Author:
Natalia Gormaleva
Source: RB
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