Russia Renewed Unused Trump Trademarks in 2016

[DonViejo]

Source: New York Times



By MIKE McINTIREJUNE 18, 2017

Amid a broadening investigation of Russian contacts with his associates and his own role in trying to stop it, President Trump fired off another angry tweet this past week repeating his assertion that he has no business interests in Russia.

But while no Trump Tower graces the Moscow skyline, the Russian authorities recently made sure that another piece of valuable property — the intellectual kind — bearing the same name remained safely in Mr. Trump’s portfolio.

Last year, while hacking Democrats’ emails and working to undermine the American presidential election, the Russian government also granted extensions to six trademarks for Mr. Trump that had been set to expire. The Trump trademarks, originally obtained between 1996 and 2007 for hotels and branding deals that never materialized, each had terms that were coming to an end in 2016.

Despite their inactivity, the Trump Organization sought extensions for the trademarks from Rospatent, the Russian government agency in charge of intellectual property. In a series of approvals starting in April 2016 and ending in December, Rospatent granted new 10-year terms for the trademarks, the agency’s records show.

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[Botany]

1. Nothing to see here .... move on nothing to see here

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3784716/Ivanka-Trump-Karlie-Kloss-Wendi-Deng-Murdoch-watch-Open.html


Ivanka Trump w/Wendi Dang (Putin's girlfriend)

[PatSeg]

6. They don't even try to be subtle

Everything is so "In-your-face". They are either terribly naive or incredibly arrogant.

[SergeStorms]

8. Incredibly arrogant.

There's NO doubt about that!

[dalton99a]

2. Sheer coincidence

"Believe me"

[DK504]

3. Exactly how stupid are these "people"?

[lark]

4. drumpf is such an idiot, he doesn't even recognize that he's really really stupid.

He thinks he's smrt and that everyone else is sooo stupid, he can do anything and get away with it, maybe by paying a fine and not admitting guilt. it's what he's done his entire adult life, broken every rule and law and just paid minimal fines. The rich are often a rouge class, the judges let them get away with anything, and drumpf is the absolute worst of the lot. Actually, he's the worst person in the world!

[BumRushDaShow]

5. Maybe one day

he'll go the way of Bernie Madoff who did his dirt for about as long as Drumpf.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

7. They had to make sure their investment was compensated

[KewlKat]

9. MJ said 4 just happened to be renewrd on Nov 8

Coincidence?