Kostroma businesswoman demanded 300 thousand rubles from Rybinsk lamplighter

An entrepreneur from Kostroma Anna Skudaeva sent pre-trial claims to the authors of the project with the participation of a lamplighter in Rybinsk and the city administration. She believes that the use of this name violates her rights to the trademark “Lightkeeper”, and demands to pay 300 thousand rubles. This was reported by Kommersant-Yaroslavl.

According to Skudaeva, she learned about the appearance in Rybinsk of a man calling himself a lamplighter, on September 26. The entrepreneur claims that in the relevant areas the right to use this designation belongs to the right holders of her trademark.

In Rybinsk, they disagree with the claims. Moreover, the local team intends to register its own brand using the word “lightlightlighter”. Representatives of the Kostroma businesswoman conducted a test purchase: they came to the city and visited the performance. It turned out that the performer did not wear the breastplate of the guide, and his name was not in the register of guides.

The author of the idea and sculpture of the Rybinsk lamplighter Anatoly Chul does not believe that the local project copies someone else's. In his opinion, the character in Rybinsk, the second largest city in the Yaroslavl region, should have its own distinctive features. Timur Ivanov himself said that he does not conduct excursions, but organizes meetings with the animator.