Apple will have to pay a large amount before selling the iPhone in Russia

Everyone is so passionate about the arrival of the iPhone in Russia, that they forgot an important detail that could prevent sales and move the date of domestic release for more than one month:

The iPhone trademark on the territory of Russia is intercepted by another company!

June 29, 2007 in the US, Apple began selling iPhone. On the same day in Russia, MD Trading submitted an application for registration of the iPhone trademark. Russia was not found in the list of countries covered by iPhone protection. There you can find Kyrgyzstan, Belarus, Armenia and Moldova, but Russia is not. According to patent attorney from Baker & McKenzie, Vladimir Shitikov, “it is possible that Russia was forgotten to specify or a typo happened and instead of Ru (Russia) they wrote Ro (Romania). This mistake can be costly for Apple, confident that its brand is invulnerable in Russia.

"MD Trading" can sue Apple, or offer an American vendor to fork out. With a probability of 99%, the second will occur.