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Global Branding Strategy and the Madrid System

WIPO Seminar, PRH, June 8, 2015

Kirsi EkströmDirector, IPR & TrademarksTeliaSonera

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TeliaSonera - in brief

• Result of a merger of the Swedish incumbent Telia AB and Finnish incumbent Sonera Corporation in December 2002

• Head office in Stockholm, Sweden

• 2014 net sales SEK 101.1 billion

• Approximately 26,000 employees

• Market capitalization approximately USD 25 billion* (SEK 219 billion)

April 2015

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The world of TeliaSonera

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Subsidiaries

Associated companies

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Subsidiaries

Associated companies

International Carrier

Footprint of TeliaSonera

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Main brands100% owned

Nordics/Baltics

Corporate brand

Fighting brands100% owned

Majority owned

brands Baltic & Spain

Minority owned

brands

Endorsed brands

100% owned

Endorsed brands

100% owned

Complementary

brands 100% owned

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Main brandsEurasia

Brand Architecture

Our logo

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Trademark protection strategy

• Local naming

– Use of local trademark offices

– No international filings

• International naming

– Priority applications

– International filings– CTM

– WIPO

– National

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The advantages for using Madrid Protocol

• Cost effective

– One registration, one renewal, one application for recording changes

– Our filings through WIPO in appr. 30 countries in 6 – 8 international classes

• Easy to use

– E-subsequent designation

– E-renewal

– Account for payment of fees

• Covers most of our core countries outside European Union

– Norway, Community Trademark, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Russian Federation, Tajikistan, Turkey, Uzbekistan

• Missing countries of importance

– Most of South American countries, Nepal, Canada

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Our filings in numbers

The countries covered by different channels

CTM 28

WIPO 33

National18

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Improvements and handicaps of the system

Improvements

• Issuance of statement of grant of protection where no notification of provisional refusal has been communicated within the applicable time period by WIPO

• MGS = Goods and Services tool

Handicaps

• South American countries are still missing

• Regardless which language you have chosen when filing the application, the local offices use the language they have chosen in all correspondence

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