The court banned Google from showing the phrase “Smart Voting” in search results

The Moscow Arbitration Court banned Google from displaying the phrase “Smart Voting” in search results as an interim measure in the claim of the Stavropol company “Wulintertrade”, which sells sheep wool. About it reported in the court decision of September 3.

“To prohibit the operator of the search engine Company Google, LLC from using the designation” Smart Vote “in the search results of its own search engine as one of the search keywords,” the document says.

In June, Wulintertrade registered the Smart Voting trademark in record time, which is identical to the name of the project of the politician Alexei Navalny, writes Mediazona.

Navalny’s associate Ivan Zhdanov called the decision of the Arbitration Court illegal. “Smart voting” is not a subject of commercial turnover, we have been using it for several years (which indicates an abuse of rights by the plaintiff). The trial is generally held even without our participation, ”he explained.