Trademark registration containing religious symbolic or semantic in the name of commercial organization

The author examines the possibility of registration of designations containing religious semantic or symbolic as trademarks in the name of commercial organizations. The article discloses the questions of possible establishment of exclusive right for designations containing religious semantic in the name of commercial organizations as well as potential consequences of such establishment for the religious organization for which the semantic in question is traditional. The author concludes that the existing legislation shall be developed towards the limitation of the range of persons which may apply for legal protection in respect of designations containing religious semantic or symbolic.