Post-release: international conference
«Intellectual property and foreign trade activities: prospects, risks and opportunities»
On November 29, 2012 took place in Moscow organized by the International partnership network of law companies Customs & Corporate Lawyers International conference «Intellectual property and foreign trade activities: prospects, risks and opportunities.
The conference was held in the Expocenter on Krasnaya Presnya in the framework of the IV international forum «Expopriority 2012».
The conference was attended by legal companies belonging to the network of the Customs & Corporate Lawyers and their clients Russian and foreign companies. Among speakers and participants of the Conference were specialists and experts in the field of intellectual property and foreign economic affairs, representatives of the Supreme Arbitration Court of Russia, Federal customs service, Federal Antimonopoly service, business associations of rights holders and patent attorneys.
Welcoming remarks were made by the moderator of the conference of the managing partner of the International partnership network of law companies Customs &Corporate Lawyers Konstantin Kurochkin, Deputy Chairman of Committee CCI of Russia on intellectual property Boris Leontiev.
The greatest interest of the participants was aroused topics related to protection and enforcement of intellectual property in conditions of functioning of the Customs Union, the impact of the WTO on the interests of rights holders and participants of foreign trade, problems of parallel import, as well as the procedure of forming a single customs registry of intellectual property rights.
These issues are highlighted in their reports to the plenary session head of the legal practice of Corporate Lawyers Group (CIS) Irina Vakhterova, arbitrator of the CCI of Kazakhstan, patent attorney Asylbek Abdikylov, head of Department of ensuring control of goods containing objects of intellectual property, Management of trade restrictions, currency and export control FCS of Russia Sergey Shurygin.
After the plenary session, within the framework of the «round table» interest among the participants of the conference and debate were the Deputy Director of «SAMT-Fund», Paul Buryanov on technical regulation and certification as a tool to protect the consumer market from counterfeit and fake products, as well as the speech of Robert Voskanyan, the expert of patent-legal firm «YS», which presented an analysis of the project of the international agreements regulating the issues of trademark registration in the Common economic space. Deputy head of the Bar association Customs & Corporate Lawyers Oksana Kurochkina spoke about the recent legislative trends, legal practice and international experience in respect of such controversial topics as parallel imports.
«Annual holding of such conferences with involvement in the number of speakers the representatives of Belarus, Kazakhstan, international organizations promotes interaction and exchange of experience between scientists and experts, public authorities and practitioners in the conditions of changes in legislation and law enforcement practice» - sure managing partner of the International partnership network of law companies Customs & Corporate Lawyers Konstantin Kurochkin.
Deputy Chairman of Committee CCI of Russia on intellectual property Boris Leontiev also stressed the scientific and applied character of the conference and the importance of the sounded remarks and proposals for further improvement of the legislation in sphere of protection of intellectual property.
The press service of Customs & Corporate Lawyers