Leica registered a trademark in Russia until 2035

Trademark registration

The German company Leica Microsystems IR GmbH registered its logo with Rospatent on November 3, 2026. This was reported to Gazeta.Ru by the counterparty verification service Rusprofile. The exclusive right to the trademark will last until November 2035.

What the brand covers

The registered mark allows the production of digital and analog photo and video cameras, photo and video optics, projectors and mobile phones, as well as the creation of software for editing photos and videos. Leica Camera itself is a German manufacturer of cameras for consumer and professional use, which also produces lenses, binoculars, spotting scopes, rifle scopes and rangefinders. The company was founded in 1849, has been developing cameras since 1913, and has been producing them in series since 1925.

What happened before

The trademark registration comes years after the brand left the Russian market. According to the company's statement, Leica Camera AG stopped official deliveries to Russia and closed its brand store in GUM in March 2022, and at the end of the same year decided to begin liquidating its Russian legal entity. The subsidiary LLC

Financial indicators

The revenue of LLC Vechernyaya Zvezda in 2023 amounted to 30.9 million rubles, compared with 242.7 million in 2022, while profit tripled — from 38.8 million to 112.5 million rubles. For comparison: in 2021, LLC Leica Camera Russia earned 366.3 million rubles, while its loss amounted to 10.3 million rubles. According to the publication, 2022–2023 became the only period since the company's founding when the organization showed a profit. Thus, the new trademark registration was recorded when Leica no longer has its own legal entity in Russia; sources do not report any resumption of deliveries or opening of representative offices.