An appellation of origin of goods for which legal protection is granted is a designation which represents or contains the modern or historical, official or unofficial, full or abbreviated name of a country, urban or rural settlement, locality or other geographical object, as well as a designation derived from such name and which became known as a result of its use in respect of goods whose special properties are exclusively or mainly determined by the characteristic of.
A designation which, although representing or containing the name of the geographical object, but which has come into general use in the Russian Federation as a designation of goods of a certain type not associated with the place of its production, shall not be recognized as an appellation of origin of goods.
— Civil Code of the Russian Federation Article 1516. Name of the place of origin of goods
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