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Forbes sues Russian “edition” of magazine

Forbes magazine filed a lawsuit against a firm in Russia that published an unlicensed “special edition” of the magazine on how to do business there.

Thomas Grove of Reuters reports, “The cover of the ‘special edition’ showed a businessman on the seashore, wearing a traditional shaggy woolen hat from the Caucasus, with the headline ‘How to boost your capital in Dagestan.’

“The edition, published last year, called itself ‘Forbes,’ with the name printed in the same typeface as the U.S. business magazine’s.

“‘Forbes Media LLC, the owner of the Forbes trademark… appealed to the Arbitration Court of the Republic of Dagestan with a lawsuit for protection of its rights violated by the illegal use of its trademark,’ read a statement on www.forbes.ru on Thursday.

“Forbes filed the complaint on August 2 and said the court would hear the case on September 16.”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.