The Board of the Chamber of Patent Disputes overturned a prior Rospatent refusal to register Apple's trademark "Mission Control", which is the name of one of the applications for the Mac OS X operating system. Rospatent's August 2012 decision was based on an expert opinion, which found that the phrase "Mission Control" could not be registered because, among other things, the Russian translation of the phrase - "mission control center" - is connected with space. Apple filed an objection, arguing that the term "Mission Control" was not accurately translated as the phrase "Mission Control Center", a phrase closely aligned with NASA's space program, and abbreviated as MCC. In addition, Apple argued that its "Mission Control" trademark had been recognized by several other authorities, including those in the EU, Japan, Iceland, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan. The Chamber of Patent Disputes agreed with Apple, and allowed Russian registration of the Mission Control trademark.
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