{"id":77327,"date":"2018-05-12T14:58:03","date_gmt":"2018-05-12T21:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=77327"},"modified":"2018-05-12T14:58:03","modified_gmt":"2018-05-12T21:58:03","slug":"novichok-brand-now-a-rapidly-growing-trademark-for-russian-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/05\/12\/novichok-brand-now-a-rapidly-growing-trademark-for-russian-products\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Novichok\u2019 brand now a rapidly-growing trademark for Russian products"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy RT<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Many Russian companies are now registering products under the \u2018Novichok\u2019 trademark \u2013 the chemical the UK says poisoned ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia. From sunflower oil to detergents, \u2018Novichok\u2019 is the new black.<\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media__item \" src=\"https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2018.05\/article\/5af5afd7dda4c820318b4631.jpg\" alt=\"\u2018Novichok\u2019 brand now a rapidly-growing trademark for Russian products\" width=\"571\" height=\"321\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"article__text text \">\n<div class=\"arcticle__read-more read-more\">\n<div class=\"read-more__title\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"read-more__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/sport\/426393-novichook-cocktail-volgograd-england-fans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"read-more__footer\">\u2018English tourists wanted a cocktail &#8211; we gave them one!\u2019: Russian mixologist explains Novichok drink<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The Russian Federal Service for Intellectual Property (Rospatent) has confirmed that it received several applications for the Novichok name.\u00a0<em>&#8220;The applications concern alcohol and non-alcoholic products, pharmaceutical products,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0the service told RIA Novosti.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"read-more__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/sport\/426393-novichook-cocktail-volgograd-england-fans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"read-more__cover\" src=\"https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2018.05\/thumbnail\/5af46a19dda4c828038b459f.jpg\" alt=\"\u00a9\u00a0Shamil Zhumatov\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The hype around \u2018Novichok\u2019 first appeared on Russian Twitter and Instagram accounts, where users uploaded photos of sunflower oil under the name \u2013 with a KGB logo on the bottle. The mayor of Shikhany \u2013 a closed town in the Saratov region \u2013 has said his administration plans to copyright a \u2018Novichok\u2019 brand of household detergents. The town is famous for being the location of the Shikhansky chemical testing ground of the Soviet Army.<\/p>\n<p>Various British media outlets have claimed the chemical, which poisoned the Skripals in Salisbury, England back in March, was developed in Shikhany. In an interview with RIA Novosti, Shikhany Mayor Andrey Tatarinov thanked the British media for promoting the small town.\u00a0<em>No-one knew about us before they started this promotion campaign.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>London has accused the Russian state of involvement in the poisoning of Skripals but Moscow categorically denies this.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy RT Many Russian companies are now registering products under the \u2018Novichok\u2019 trademark \u2013 the chemical the UK says poisoned ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia. From sunflower oil to detergents, \u2018Novichok\u2019 is the new black. Read more \u2018English tourists wanted a cocktail &#8211; we gave them one!\u2019: Russian mixologist explains Novichok drink The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}