Clash over Pussy Riot Brand

A conflict has arisen between Pussy Riot band member Yekaterina Samutsevich and the group's trial attorney Mark Feygin over the commercial use of the Pussy Riot brand, Kommersant daily reports. On April 4, 2012, Kinokompaniya Veb-Bio (Veb-Bio film company) filed an application with the Federal Service for Intellectual Property, Patents and Trademarks to register the band's name as a trademark.  However, freed Pussy Riot member Yekaterina Samtusevich believes that the commercial use of their name is contrary to the group's ideology, which was always intended to be a punk rock project. Samutsevich demands that Mark Feygin gives up his rights to the band's trademark. Feygin said that he has nothing to do with the Pussy Riot brand and acted only to protect the group name from third parties.

http://www.rapsinews.com/news/20121102/265217203.html
http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/2058268
http://lenta.ru/news/2012/11/02/feigin/

UPDATE: Rospatent Denies Pussy Riot Trademark Application
http://www.echo.msk.ru/news/947147-echo.html