The Arbitration Court of Volgograd region ruled to impose pecuniary penalties in the amount of RUR 100,000 on OOO Moskva-Oil (Moscow-Oil) and RUR 100,000 on OOO Biznes-Tsentr-Volgograd (Business-Center-Volgograd) in favor of OAO LUKOIL for violation of its exclusive trademark rights, OAO LUKOIL Press Service reports.

The court had previously found that these companies used symbols confusingly similar to OAO LUKOIL’s trademark at a gas filling station in Volgograd.

Due to cases of infringement of OAO LUKOIL’s trademark rights or use of confusingly similar symbols, which has become frequent recently, the Company intends to take action to defend its exclusive rights.

The Company is going to bring in a number of lawsuits regarding infringement of its exclusive rights on registered trademarks against owners and lease holders of gas filling stations located in a number of Russian regions, including Moscow region.