Market Growth
According to the special report "Trademarks in Russia. Growing opportunities, major challenges" published recently by Thomson CompuMark (part of Thomson Reuters), Russia is a leading country in growth of trademark registrations over the past 5 years: with 36436 trademark registrations last year the Russian trademark marketplace has shown growth in 46% since 2004, which is the largest increase of any major trademark-protecting country including Brazil, China, France, Germany, U.K. and US.