IEF CIS-2025
On March 28, 2025, the CIS International Economic Forum «New Impulses for the Development of the Greater Eurasian Partnership. Scientific, technological and innovative cooperation» was held in Moscow at the Congress Center of the World Trade Center.
EAPO and RNIIIS
Within the framework of the IX Legal Forum of the BRICS countries, held in Moscow on the basis of MGIMO of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, on September 19, 2024, a ceremony was held to sign an Agreement on scientific and Innovative Cooperation between the Eurasian Patent Organization (EAPO), an international intergovernmental organization established in 1994 by the Eurasian Patent Convention (EAPC), and the autonomous non–profit organization "Republican Scientific-Research Institute of Intellectual Property" (RNIIIS), the only scientific specialized the Organization for Intellectual Property Issues in the EAEU and CIS countries, established in 2005 the Accounting Chamber of Russia, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation with the participation of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Tajikistan in MTK 550
As part of the implementation of the Cooperation Agreement between the Patent Office of the Republic of Tajikistan and the RNIIIS (signed in Geneva on 07/11/2024) and the Plan (Roadmap) for 2024-2025 for the implementation of the National Strategy for the Development of Intellectual Property of the Republic of Tajikistan for the period up to 2030, based on the application of the Agency for Standardization, Metrology, Certification and Trade Inspection under the Government of the Republic Tajikistan, supported by the decision of the ITC 550 (Protocol No. 13 dated 08/22/2024), the Republic of Tajikistan was admitted to the ITC 550 as a full member of the interstate Technical Committee for Standardization "Intellectual Property".
The country's plenipotentiary representative in the MTK - 550 is Ismoilzoda Mirzo Haidarbek, Director of the state institution "National Patent Information Center" of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of the Republic of Tajikistan.
RNIIIS Press Service
RNIIIS at the United Nations (2024)
On July 11, 2024, at the headquarters of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) (Geneva, Switzerland), as part of the 65th series of meetings of the WIPO Assembly (July 9-17, 2024, more than 1,400 participants), the annual traditional consultative meeting of the Director General of WIPO, Mr. Daren Tang, took place in the WIPO Partnership Dialogue with executives and experts 50 non-governmental organizations from around the world on intellectual property issues for the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Countermeasures against EU sanctions in the field of intellectual property
Proposals of the Intellectual Property Commission of the Association of Lawyers of Russia(AYUR) on countermeasures against EU sanctions in the field of intellectual property included in the 14th package of anti-Russian sanctions dated 06/24/2024
(Minutes of the meeting No. 8 dated June 25, 2024)
On June 24, 2024, the 14th package of EU sanctions entered into force, including new discriminatory measures in the field of intellectual property.
Previously, the application of the sanctions regime assumed that the European Patent Office (EPO), the EU Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), the national intellectual property (IP) offices of the EU countries "freeze" all categories of patent applications from Russian individuals and legal entities that are included in the sanction’s lists, and organizations controlled by them from the moment of their inclusion to these lists.
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 Eighth BRICS Legal Forum and intellectual property
On December 8-9, 2023, the Eighth BRICS Legal Forum was held in South Africa with the participation of delegations from all five BRICS member countries led by the heads of the legal communities of these countries (from Brazil - Bruno Barata, from India – Prashant Kumar, from China – Zhang Mingqi, from South Africa – Eunice Masipa. The Russian delegation (10 people) was headed at the Forum by the Chairman of the Association of Lawyers of Russia, Doctor of Law Sergey Stepashin.
RNIIIS at the UN
On July 10, 2023, at the headquarters of WIPO (Geneva, Switzerland), as part of the 64th series of meetings of the WIPO Assembly (July 6-14, 2023), a consultative meeting of the Director General of WIPO, Mr. Daren Tang, with the heads and experts of more than 50 non-governmental organizations from around the world on intellectual property issues for sustainable development was held UN. Vladimir Lopatin, Scientific Director of the RNIIIS (the only specialized non-profit non-governmental organization on intellectual property issues in the post-Soviet space), took part in the meeting on behalf of Russia and other countries of the EAEU and the CIS, who is a UN expert (since 2019).