Intellectual property in the aspect of foreign economic activity: protection and guarding in the context of the WTO and the Common economic space
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24 April in Moscow at the Congress centre of Chamber of commerce and industry of Russia in the framework of the VI International forum «Intellectual property in the XXI century» traditionally was organized by International partnership network of law companies Customs & Corporate Lawyers section «Intellectual property in the aspect of foreign economic activity: protection and guarding in the context of the WTO and the Common economic space».
The moderators of the section were the barrister, the head of the Bar association Customs & Corporate Lawyers Konstantin Kurochkin, Director of external relations and work with business councils of the CCI of the Russian Federation Vladimir Padalko.
The workshop was attended by over 200 people, representatives of authorities, business associations, expert community and industry associations, as well as Russian and foreign companies (including, ROSATOM, Bosch, SIBUR-holding, United confectioners, EUROCEMENT, RUSNANO, KAMAZ, PepsiCo, Nike, Ferrero, Copier, Danone, Renova, Navitel, Soyuzplodoimport).
In a session of section as the speakers were the representative of the Eurasian Economic Commission Evgeny Gridnev, senior advisor of Customs & Corporate Lawyers Andrey Shchetinin, the judge of the Court for intellectual property rights Victor Himichev, representative of the Federal customs service of Russia Sergey Shurygin, General Director of LLC «AVENT-info» Sergey Murashov, Advisor of the General Director of LLC «PPF «YS» Robert Voskanyan, barrister of Customs & Corporate Lawyers Oksana Kurochkina.
Sergey Shurygin in his speech spoke about peculiarities of the protection of intellectual property rights by customs authorities.
Victor Himichev characterized created in the Russian Federation Court for intellectual property rights as a tool for the implementation of justice in the context of the legal regime of the WTO.
A wild discussion of Forum participants provoked the speech of Oksana Kurochkina dedicated barriers in the sphere of intellectual property, hindering the free movement of goods within the Common economic space, as well as proposals for elimination of the identified barriers.
Robert Voskanyan noted the need for the speedy introduction of a procedure for registration of a regional trademark of Common economic space, as well as the need for simplification and acceleration of procedures of registration of rights to objects of intellectual property.
Sergey Murashov in detail stopped on the issues of technological protection of intellectual property, told about the modern ways of combating counterfeit and fake products.
Andrey Shchetinin covered the issues of export of goods double, military and special purposes, highlighting the necessity of protection of interests of participants of foreign economic activity.
Remarks by other participants of the section were dedicated to various aspects of the WTO and the Common economic space.
Chamber of commerce and industry of Russia Federation were awarded with diplomas of the VI International forum on Intellectual property - XXI century» following participants:
Sergey Shurygin,
Robert Voskanyan,
Konstantin Kurochkin,
International partnership network of law companies Customs & Corporate Lawyers.
By results of work of the section was make proposals for inclusion in the final document of the VI International forum «Intellectual property in the XXI century».
Among the proposals - consider it expedient to create on the basis of the Eurasian economic Commission of a single coordinating body for the regulation of protection and intellectual property rights on the territory of the Common economic space and the creation of a unified information resource for right holders and law enforcement bodies of the countries-members of the Customs Union with the system of notification of rights holders by email.
In conclusion the Konstantin Kurochkin thanked the participants for the productive work and invited for the next activities undertaken with the support and participation of the International partnership network of law companies Customs & Corporate Lawyers - a workshop on certification (Minsk, may 29), " Arabia-Expo " (30 may - 1 June, St. Petersburg), Tax forum of the South of Russia (4-5 June, Rostov-on-don).
In more detail with the materials of the section can be found on the website http://www.accl.ru/.
The press service of the «Customs & Corporate Lawyers»