On the outcomes of the XV International Forum "Innovative Development through the Intellectual Property Market"

On April 23, 2024, as part of the International Intellectual Property Days dedicated to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, the XV anniversary International Forum "Innovative Development through the Intellectual Property Market" was held in Moscow (on the basis of the Kutafin Moscow State University) with the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia and Rossotrudnichestvo.

 The Forum was organized by the CIS Executive Committee, the Russian Academy of Sciences, RNIIIS, and the Association of Lawyers of Russia. All these years, the Republican Research Institute of Intellectual Property (RNIIIS), the only scientific non–profit organization in the EAEU and CIS countries specializing in intellectual property issues and providing services in this area at the level of international ISO standards, has been acting as the Directorate and sponsor of the Forum. The general partners of the Forum were SIC Kurchatov Institute - Central Research Institute of KM Prometheus and the Russian company GC Eurochem. The main information partners of the Forum were the National News Service news agency, MTRK Mir, Parliamentary Newspaper, scientific journals Intellectual Property Law, Russian Competition Law and Economics and Information Law.

The peculiarities of the XV International Forum include:

The first is the focus on Eurasian problems, where from 2022 the Forum's agenda includes practices and problems of developing the intellectual property market of the countries of the "Great Eurasian Partnership" (EAEU, CIS, SCO and BRICS), taking into account the expansion of the BRICS+.

The second is the digital economy and artificial intelligence, the topical issues of which are presented at all meetings of the Forum through the prism of technological sovereignty and intellectual property.

The third is the constant high scientific level of representation of the participants, which allows in the year of the 300th anniversary of the Russian Academy of Sciences to provide in–depth study of the problems of innovative and digital development on the path of Eurasian integration and to develop practically significant recommendations for government and business. The previous XIV Forum was highly appreciated by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia S.V. Lavrov, who acknowledged in his address to the organizers of the Forum following its results: "The Forum has become an authoritative international platform for discussing topical issues of developing the legal framework, improving and harmonizing legislation, commercialization and ensuring the protection of intellectual property. ...the practical recommendations of the Forum will be taken into account in the work of the Russian Foreign Ministry and its foreign institutions, including in contacts on this issue with partners in the Commonwealth of Independent States and the Eurasian Economic Union." The final document - recommendations of the Forum was posted on the official website of the Russian Foreign Ministry for the first time.

The fourth is the practical importance in identifying approaches and mechanisms for solving existing problems, which explains the presentation and professional discussion at the Forum of new drafts of interstate and national standards as mechanisms for regulating "soft power" on these issues for the EAEU, CIS, SCO and BRICS countries.

The fifth is the constant expansion of the geography of the Forum within the framework of the "Great Eurasian Partnership", the practical orientation of which attracts new participants, including from the regions of Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

At eight regional venues in the EAEU countries (Russian Federation: Moscow – on the basis of MGUA (5 sessions); St. Petersburg - on the basis of Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University; The Republic of Crimea – on the basis of V.I. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University, Simferopol; the Republic of Tatarstan – on the basis of Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University, Kazan; Sverdlovsk Region - based on USUE, Yekaterinburg; Rostov region and the South of Russia – based on SFU, Rostov-on-Don; The Republic of Belarus –on the basis of the National Center for Legislation and Legal Research of the Republic of Belarus, Minsk; the Kyrgyz Republic on the basis of Kyrgyzpatent, Bishkek), over 800 participants from 14 countries of the world (including the countries of the EAEU, CIS and BRICS, as well as Serbia, Bulgaria and Vietnam) were registered.

Representatives from 10 international and interstate bodies and organizations, 17 ministries and departments of the Russian Federation (including The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, the Ministry of Defense of Russia, the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia, the Ministry of Health of Russia, FAS, Rospatent and FAPRID), representatives of the CIS Banking Council and the Bank of Russia, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, representatives of 42 subjects of the Russian Federation, including the Government of Moscow, regional parliaments and governments of the subjects of the Russian Federation, where regional sessions of the Forum were held, The Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Russia and more than 60 enterprises and organizations from the main integrated structures.

The organizers and participants of the Forum received greetings from A.E. Vaino, Head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation, D.F. Mezentsev, State Secretary of the Union State, D.A. Trefilov, Deputy Secretary General of the CIS.

Оn behalf of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the year of its 300th anniversary, the participants of the Forum were greeted by G.Ya. Krasnikov, President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Deputy President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Academician - Secretary of the Department of Public Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences T.Ya. Khabrieva, Director of the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences A.N.Savenkov.

At the opening of the Forum, its participants were welcomed by Zhang Ming, Secretary General of the SCO; S.V. Stepashin, Chairman of the Program Committee of the Forum and Chairman of the Association of Lawyers of Russia; I.V. Yershova, First Vice-Rector of the Kutafin Moscow State Law University.

In his speech, S.V. Stepashin emphasized that in order to realize the potential of intellectual property in ensuring national competitiveness and technological sovereignty, it is necessary:

• Ø Strategies and programs for the formation and development of the Eurasian intellectual property market, which exist in most CIS countries, but have not appeared in the EAEU, Russia and Kazakhstan;
• Ø changes and additions to the sections of the Sustainable Development Goals at the global, regional and national levels regarding the tasks of developing the intellectual property market, where information indicators of the so-called "knowledge economy" (publications and patent applications) should be replaced by indicators of the intellectual property economy (intangible assets and intellectual property turnover in the pricing of final products, jobs /services and finance);
• harmonization of national legislation in the field of intellectual property in order to ensure the unity of the life cycle of scientific, scientific, technical and innovative activities, both in the EAEU, the CIS and the BRICS (at the BRICS Legal forum in South Africa (2023), special attention was paid to this and a working group on intellectual property was established);
• active development of standardization institutions in order to harmonize and effectively regulate these processes, taking into account the creation in the Russian Federation of the world's first national system of standards "Intellectual Property" (30 standards) within the framework of the activities of the national and interstate technical committees TK481 /MTK550, where the creation of a similar international ISO / IEC committee under the chairmanship of Russia is overdue;
• Centralization of functions for the development and implementation of state policy and regulatory legal regulation in the field of intellectual property within one department under the leadership of the Government (in the Russian Federation – more than 10 federal agencies are responsible for this).

117 reports were presented at two plenary and 12 in-session meetings of the Forum. The participants and speakers include more than half of the scientists representing 7 state academies of sciences, 53 academic institutes and leading universities, including 12 academicians of state academies of Sciences, 34 doctors and 49 candidates of sciences in various fields of scientific knowledge.

At the plenary session "The Eurasian Intellectual Property Market and Technological sovereignty in a multipolar World", V.N. Lopatin, Scientific Director of the RNIIIS, Chairman of the AYUR Commission on Intellectual Property, Chairman of the Interstate Technical Committee for Standardization of the MTK 550 "Intellectual Property", Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation delivered the main report "On the state of legal protection, use and protection of intellectual property in the EAEU, CIS and BRICS countries in 2023".

During the discussion of the report at the plenary session, the following reports were presented: A.P. Shpakovsky - member of the Standing Committee on International Affairs of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus, Counselor-Envoy of the Embassy of the Republic of Belarus in the Russian Federation - "Technological sovereignty as a basic need for Belarusian-Russian integration"; G.A.Vasilevich - Head of the Department of Constitutional Law of the Belarusian State University, Chairman of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Belarus (1997-2008), Prosecutor General of the Republic of Belarus (2008-2011) - "Technological imperatives of digitalization as a means of controlling the activities of representative authorities within the framework of Eurasian integration"; V.N. Chernyak - Director of the Bureau of Standards of the Interstate Council for Standardization, Metrology and Certification of the CIS, Executive Secretary of the IGS - "The role of interstate standardization in the integration processes of the Greater Eurasian Partnership"; P.P. Nefidov - General Director of NP "Financial and Banking Council of the CIS" - "Financial technologies in the CIS space as the basis for comprehensive support national competitiveness"; E.L. Pisarevsky - Deputy Head of the Financial Commissioner's Activity Support Service, member of the AYUR Intellectual Property Commission - "Protection of the Rights of Consumers of Financial Services in a digital environment"; G.Z. Mansurov - Head of the USUE Department of Civil Law - "Intellectual Property Law in the context of digital transformation"; D.K. Nurgaliev - Director of the Institute of Geology and Oil and Gas Technologies of KFU, scientific director of the World-class Scientific Center "Rational development of liquid hydrocarbon reserves of the planet - "Monetization of intellectual property of universities: problems and prospects for implementation"; R.O. Omorov - Head of the Laboratory of the Institute of Mechanical Engineering, Automation and Geomechanics of the National Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz Republic (Head of Kyrgyzpatent 1993-2007) - "Legal protection in the Kyrgyz Republic The Republic of Trade Secrets as an object of intellectual property"; G.P. Ivliev - President of the Eurasian Patent Office, member of the AYUR Commission on Intellectual Property - "Increasing the potential of Intellectual property as a resource of competitiveness"; M.L. Entin - Head of the Department of Integration Law and Human Rights of MGIMO Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Vice-President of the Russian Association of International Law, Deputy Chairman of the AYUR Commission on Intellectual Property - "Comparative Analysis problems of intellectual property in the age of artificial intelligence"; M.A. Borovskaya - Chairman of the Council of Rectors of Universities in the South of Russia, President of SFU – "Development of the intellectual property management system in the digital economy: personnel, digital services and strategic planning"; A.B. Kishkembayev - Judge of the EAEU Court - "On some issues of legal protection of intellectual property in the EAEU".

The discussion of the main report and the draft final document was continued at 12 sessions of the Forum, the results of which were summed up by the moderators of these sessions at the evening plenary session, including:

Session No. 1. "Intellectual property market and national competitiveness in the digital economy: practices of the EAEU and BRICS countries" (moderator: V.N. Lopatin - scientific head of the RNIIIS, Chairman of the AYUR Commission on Intellectual Property, Doctor of Law, Professor, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation);

Session No. 2. "Intellectual Property and Technological Sovereignty: Performance indicators of R&D" (national, sectoral and corporate levels)" (moderator: V.V. Astanin - Head of the Research Department of Legislation and Comparative Intellectual Property Law of the Russian National Research Institute, Doctor of Law, Professor);

Session No. 3 "Intellectual Property in the financial market of the EAEU (credit, stock, insurance)" (moderator: G.M. Golobokova - Head of the Research Department of Innovative Problems of Intellectual Property of the Russian Research Institute of Economics, Doctor of Economics, Professor);

Session No. 4 "Intellectual Property and Legal Protection in the EAEU, CIS and BRICS" (moderator: S.V. Maximov - Advisor to the Head of the FAS of Russia, Editor-in-Chief of the journal "Russian Competition Law and Economics", Doctor of Law, Professor, Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation);

Session No. 5 "Artificial Intelligence and Personnel for the Intellectual Property market" (moderator: A.V. Minbaleev - Head of the Department of Information Law and Digital Technologies of the Kutafin Moscow State Law University, Chief Researcher of the Russian Research Institute of Law, Doctor of Law, Professor);

Session No. 6 "Harmonization of legislation of the EAEU Member States in the field of intellectual property as a condition for the formation of a single Eurasian market" (on the basis of the National Center for Legislation and Legal Research of the Republic of Belarus, Minsk, moderator: N.S. Minko - Leading researcher at the Department of Research in the field of civil, Environmental and Social Law of the Institute of Legal Studies National Research Institute of the Republic of Belarus);

Session No.7 "Increasing the potential of intellectual property as a resource of competitiveness" (on the basis of the State Agency for Intellectual Property and Innovation under the Cabinet of Ministers of the Kyrgyz Republic (Kyrgyzpatent), Bishkek, moderators: G.P. Ivliev - President of the Eurasian Patent Office (EAPO), Scientific supervisor of FIPS, Candidate of Law, Associate Professor, Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation; E.I. Mukambetov, Head of the Trademark Department of Kyrgyzpatent);

Session No. 8 "Innovative Development of the Republic of Crimea through the Intellectual Property Market" (on the basis of the V.I. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University, Simferopol, moderator: Yu.N. Silvanovich, lecturer at the Department of History and Theory of State and Law of the V.I. Vernadsky KFU);

Session No. 9 "Regional Intellectual Property Market: problems and practice of solving on the example of the Republic of Tatarstan" (on the basis of the Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University, moderator: D.K. Nurgaliev - Director of the Institute of Geology and Oil and Gas Technologies of Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University, member of the Scientific Council on Geomagnetism of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Geology- Mineralogical Sciences, Professor, Honored Scientist of the Republic of Tatarstan);

Session No. 10 "Digitalization and Intellectual Property as priorities of competitiveness of agricultural markets in the South of Russia" (on the basis of the Southern Federal State Educational Institution, moderators: M.A. Borovskaya -President of the Southern Federal University, Chairman of the Council of Rectors of Universities in the South of Russia, Doctor of Economics, Professor, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Education, A.A. Afanasyev -  Vice-President for International Cooperation of the Association for the Promotion of Multilateral Cooperation in the Field of Science and Education in the Black Sea Region (BSAARC), PhD in Economics);

Session No.11 "Economics of Intellectual Property in the innovative and digital development of the Urals" (on the basis of the Federal State Educational Institution of Higher Education "Ural State University of Economics", Yekaterinburg, moderators: A.V. Kurdyumov - Head of the Department of Competition Law and Antimonopoly Regulation, Director of the Institute of State, Municipal Management and Law of USUE, Candidate of Economics, Associate Professor; G.Z. Mansurov -  Head of the Department of Civil Law of the Ural State University of Economics, Doctor of Law, Associate Professor);

Session No. 12 "Transfer of advanced digital and production technologies: successful cases and key tools" (on the basis of Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, moderator: O.V. Afanasyeva -  Deputy Head of the Technology Transfer Center of SPbPU).

Following the results of the Forum, its participants adopted Recommendations addressed to the heads of the highest authorities and academies of sciences of the CIS, EAEU and BRICS countries, as well as to the United Nations (WIPO, ISO, UNESCO and the UN European Commission), WTO, SCO, the CIS Executive Committee, the EAEU EEC and the Standing Committee of the Union State.

A detailed report on the results of the Forum and Recommendations of its participants in Russian and English are available on the website of the Forum Directorate (https://rniiis.ru , https://rniiis.com ), are presented in the journals of the Forum's information partners and in the collection of Forum documents in printed and electronic form.

The next XVI International Forum "Innovative Development through the Intellectual Property Market" will be held within the framework of the International Intellectual Property Days under the auspices of the United Nations on April 24, 2025 in Moscow.