The Ninth Arbitration Court of Appeal confirmed the decision of the lower instance, which collected about 42 million rubles from the Ukrainian company Motor Sich for illegal use of the Mi / Mi series of trademarks. The decision was made on the claim of the Mil and Kamov National Center for Helicopter Engineering, which is part of Rostec’s Russian Helicopters.
Thus, the appellate court dismissed the defendant’s complaint against the decision of the Moscow Arbitration Court in January. The court also upheld the plaintiff’s appeal and extended the ban on the defendant’s use of the disputed brands to the category of goods “vehicles”. At the same time, the first instance prohibited their use only for the category of services “repair and maintenance of vehicles”.
The lawsuit was filed in December 2019. It said that Motor Sich was positioning the service of upgrading the Mi-8T helicopter to the Mi-8MSB profile as the creation of a new type of helicopter. At the same time, the designations Mi-8MSB and Mi-8MSB were used to advertise their goods and services on their website.
At the same time, Motor Sich did not acknowledge the claim. They referred to the principle of exhaustion of law.
Earlier, the Ukrainian media reported that the story of the disruption of the sale of the Motor Sich aircraft engine company to Chinese investors went sideways. Beijing has filed a lawsuit against Kiev for $ 3.6 billion and now intends to curtail trade relations. In this case, ordinary taxpayers may also suffer.