The trademark is not officially registered - how bad can it be?

Question

Software and Internet Services

Good afternoon!
We have developed a program and the program has become quite popular.
At the same time, the program has a specific name (so to speak, our trademark).
However, this trademark is not officially registered anywhere.
If someone ahead of us registers this trademark, what could be bad for us? Will we lose the right to continue to sell the program under the same name?

Answer 1

Dear, this is just terrible,
how do you know that in nature there is no identical registered name of the software?
1, you need to contact Rospatent - www1.fips.ru/wps/wcm/connect/content_ru/ru
or the chamber of commerce and industry in your region, these instances work without intermediaries (which does not prevent them from ripping off people),
2, To register a trademark the mark must be registered as a legal entity. person
3. The program can be patented as a utility model or invention, this does not require a legal entity. person, but the subsequent implementation of the program may become problematic,
therefore it is advisable to open a company. In more detail you will clarify the situation in the above instances.
4. If someone suddenly completes this procedure before you, then it is possible to defend your rights to the invention and you can beat off the program with the name but run around the courts.
What can a person who registers a trademark before you do, he will own the trademark and try to rip off money from you for using it, but if you add to this that he will patent your program as his own invention, then this person will have all the rights to your program, and how he will use these rights only God knows
Please do not confuse the concept of Comrade. a sign is one thing, a patented design is another,
on the example of reebok and windows, the first is a trademark that is faked by everyone and sundry, the second is also a patented technology that can be hacked, supplemented with software, but not how not to slap something of your own at home and call it Windows.
Good luck to you and protect your investments, especially the more intelligent ones, they are the easiest to decorate

Answer 2

As for the trademark, everything is clear. But in this case, the attacker will get nothing. We can just change the name.
About copyright.
It seems that according to the law of the Russian Federation, all rights to the program belong to the author upon the fact of creating the program and additional registration is not required ...
Is it really so easy for him to patent the program as his own invention?

Answer 3

This very patenting is painfully expensive ... 25,000 rubles for 1 trademark. And we have 2 trademarks, it turns out 50,000.
We earn a maximum of 15 mowers per month on the program - that is, 3 months of work down the drain ... can't you make it cheaper?

Answer 4

And if we have a trademark in English, can it also be registered in Russia? And attackers can do it too? Or are the attackers only Western?

Answer 5

If we roughly assume who might be interested in our trademark - does it make sense to tell him that 15 thousand a month is a lot of money for us?
After all, then it will not make sense for him to register the same trademark - we will simply change the name of the program.