MOSCOW. Aug 20 (Interfax-AVN) - The emblem of the MIG aircraft corporation is registered with the International Bureau of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) as the trademark of the corporation's products, the MIG information and public relations bureau reported on Wednesday.
"From the moment the registration confirmation form is issued, the MIG corporation's trademark gets full legal protection in Russia and in 59 other countries," the report reads.
The trademark gets protection in Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, China, Japan and other countries where MIG's products are in use and where the corporation has commercial interests.
MIG is Russia's major aircraft producer. It brings together 14 enterprises of various nature employing about 60,000 people. The Mikoyan design bureau is the core of the corporation. The bureau has designed about 200 warplanes, 62 of which were mass- produced. MIG has manufactured over 60,000 planes, about 11,000 of which have been exported to over 40 nations.
The corporation's stock of orders has grown nearly 11 times in the past few years. Its monthly turnover amounts to about RUB500m (USD16.38m).
MIG's warplane production and upgrade program provides for signing contracts with a total value of USD4.5bn. The corporation's stock of orders for aircraft production and technical servicing for 2003 amounts to USD350m.
MIG is currently producing several varieties of the MIG-29 Flanker fighter, including the MIG-29SMT, as well as MIG-AT trainer, KA-50 Hokum and KA-52 (Russian codename Alligator) helicopters. It also upgrades and services the aircraft it has produced earlier.
Alongside with making military aircraft, MIG is implementing two civilian aircraft projects. The first project provides for developing the TU-334 short-range passenger plane and the second for developing the MIG-110 multipurpose plane. The potential demand for the TU-334 among Russian and Ukrainian airlines is expected to reach 150 to 215 items in the next 13 years, and the global demand for planes similar to the MIG-110 is estimated at 1,500 to 2,000 in the next 15 years.