On the outcomes of the XIII International Forum

On April 22, 2022 the XIII International Forum "Innovative Development through Intellectual Property Market" was held, where on four regional platforms (based at the Kutafin Moscow State Law University in Moscow, at Ural State University of Economics in Yekaterinburg, at the Kazan (Privolzhsky) Federal University in Kazan and at the Southern Federal University in Rostov-on-Don) more than 320 participants (including 8 academicians, 32 doctors of science (PhD) and 45 candidates of science in various scientific fields) from 12 countries (including all EAEU and CIS countries) were registered, representing 8 international and intergovernmental bodies and organizations, 6 state academies of science, 30 academic institutions and leading universities, 16 federal authorities and more than 80 enterprises and organizations from 35 regions of Russia. Live video broadcasting of the forum on the website of the Kutafin Moscow State Law University allowed practically unlimited number of interested participants, both in Russia and abroad, to take part in its work.

 The Forum was organised by the CIS Executive Committee, the EAEU, the Russian Academy of Sciences, RSRIIP, the Russian Lawyers' Association with the support of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Rossotrudnichestvo, the Military-Industrial Board of the Russian Federation and the Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia. The Directorate and sponsor of the Forum for all these years has been the Republican Scientific Research Institute of Intellectual Property (RSRIIP) – the only scientific non-profit organisation in the EAEU and CIS countries specialising in intellectual property issues and providing services in this area at the level of international ISO standards.

The partners of the Forum were the Kurchatov Institute Research Centre – CRISM Prometey and the Gradient research and production association.

The main media partners of the Forum were the National News Service news agency, the Delovoy Express publishing house, the magazines "Intellectual Property Law", "Russian Competition Law and Economics" and "Information Law".

At the opening of the Forum its participants were welcomed by Stepashin S.V., Chairman of the Forum's Programme Committee and Chairman of the Russian Bar Association; Bochkarev O.I., DeputyChairman of the Board of the Military-Industrial Commission of the Russian Federation and
Blazheev V.V., Rector of Kutafin Moscow State Law University.

As part of the plenary session "Eurasian Intellectual Property Market: Priorities and Prospects – 2030" thekeynote speech "Digitalization, Standardization and Intellectual Property Market as Priorities of Eurasian Integration in a Multipolar World" was delivered by Lopatin V.N. –Scientific Director of RSRIIP, Chief Scientific Associate of the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Chairman of National and Interstate Technical Committees on Standardization "Intellectual Property" TC481 / ITC 550, Expert of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation. The plenary report and draft final document of the Forum included presentation of the annual RSRIIP analytical report "On the status of legal protection, use and protection of intellectual property in the EAEU and CIS countries in 2020-2021 and the prospects of the Eurasian intellectual property market until 2030" which is being prepared by RSRIIP since 2008.

In two plenary and five breakout sessions, more than 70 oral and written submissions were made by international and intergovernmental organisations, public authorities, scientific and educational institutions, corporations and civil society organisations in the participating countries.

At the plenary session the papers were presented by:

Heads of Eurasian structures: Chernyak V.N. – Director of the Bureau for Standards of the Interstate Council for Standardisation, Metrology and Certification of the CIS, Executive Secretary of the Euro-Asian Council for Standardization, Metrology and Certification – "The role of the IGU in the development of quality infrastructure of the Eurasian region" and Ivliev G.P., President of the Eurasian Patent Office (EAPO) - "The Role of the Eurasian Patent Organisation in Creating a Common Patent Space for the Eurasian Region";

Heads of National Centres for Legal Studies Savenkov A.N., Director of the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Ipatov V.D. –Director of the National Centre for Legislation and Legal Studies of the Republic of Belarus, Honoured Lawyer of the Republic of Belarus – "Tasks of reforming intellectual property legislation for the Republic of Belarus and other EAEU countries under sanctions pressure", Omorov R.O. – Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Kyrgyz Republic (Head of Kyrgyzpatent 1993-2007) – "Rights to scientific discoveries: registration and legal protection";

Heads and representatives of federal universities: Borovskaya M.A. – Chairman of the Council of Rectors of Higher Education Institutions of the South of Russia, President of the Southern Federal University, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Education – "Ecosystem for technical transfer in the development of the BSEC region" and Mukhanov E.L. – Vice-Rector for Strategic and Innovative Development of the Southern Federal University - "On the use of open digital platforms for formation and management of intellectual property portfolio"; Nurgaliev D.K. – Scientific Director of the World-class Scientific Centre, Director of the Institute of Geology and Petroleum Technologies of Kazan (Privolzhsky) Federal University, member of the Scientific Council on Geomagnetism of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Honored Scientist of the Republic of Tatarstan - "On the experience of creating technologies within the World-class Scientific Centre" and Mansurov G.Z., Head of the Civil Law Department of the Ural State University of Economics and Finance, Doctor of Law – "Modern problems of retortion in intellectual property law";

representatives of foreign corporations: Mahmoud Lattouf, Executive Director of Abu-Ghazaleh Intellectual Property (Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan) – "Developing the Intellectual Property Economy in Arab Countries" and Ravi Sachdeva – CEO, Advanced Digital Technologies, Business Ambassador for Information Technology, Indian Business Alliance (India) – "Artificial Intelligence – Critical Feature of Smart Systems for Digital Economy".

Session No.1 "Intellectual Property Market and Combating Corruption in Public Procurement of R&D as a Condition for Competitiveness in the Digital Economy: Experience of Russia and China" (moderator: Lopatin V.N., Research Director of RSRIIP, Chief Scientific Associate of the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Law, Professor, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation) focused on discussing the Chinese experience of the formation and development of the Eurasian intellectual property market and the prospects for international innovation cooperation within the framework of BRICS and SCO; anti-corruption standards in public procurement in the field of R&D, as well as professional discussion of the GOST draft "Intellectual Property. Use of Intellectual Property Objects on the Internet" within the framework of the expanded meeting of TC 481 "Intellectual Property".

The keynote speeches and presentations were made by Sitdikova R.I., Professor of the Department of Business and Energy Law of KFU, Doctor of Law, Professor; Starostina E.S., Doctor of Law – "The market of intellectual property: risks and prospects in the modern world"; Karpova N.N., Professor of the Higher School of Finance and Management of the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation, Doctor of Economics – "Condition and features of the Russian market of intellectual property"; Severin V.A., Professor ofthe Department of Commercial Law and Foundations of Law, Faculty of Law, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Doctor of Law – "Trends of influence of commercial law on the development of the information market in the era of digitalisation"; Astanin V.V., Doctor of Law, Professor – "Conflicts of interest in public procurement in the field of research and development"; Doroshkov V.V., Chief Researcher of the Research Department of the Legal Protection of Intellectual Property of RSRIIP, Russian Research Institute of Intellectual Property, Professor of the Department of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure and Criminalistics, MGIMO, Doctor of Law, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Education – "Peculiarities of counteracting corruption in modern conditions"; Khusyanova S.G., Leading Researcher of the Department of Scientific Support of Prosecutorial Supervision and Strengthening of Legality in the Social and Economic Sphere, Russian Federation Prosecutor's University, Candidate of Law – "Prosecutorial supervision over the implementation of laws in the field of protection of intellectual property rights in the digital economy", Bogdanova O.V., lecturer at the Russian State Social University – "Anti-corruption in research and development as a guarantee of science development"; Mirolyubova S.Y., Director of the Institute of Legal Regulation of Bioeconomics, Candidate of Law – "Protection of national genetic resources under conditions of GMO market development in China and Russia"; Asylguzhin T.R., postgraduate student of Urals State Economic University – "Economic aspects of restricting rights of right holders from "unfriendly countries"; Letova E.A., junior researcher of the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences – "Ways of development of legal regulation of breeding achievements in CIS and EAEU"; Gorshkov-Kantakuzen V.A., Applicant of the Department of Patent Law and Legal Protection of Means of Individualization, Russian State Academy of Intellectual Property – "New objects of patent law - animal cell designs - and their place in national patent legislation".

Session No.2 "Intellectual property and competitiveness of enterprises in attracting investments and diversification of production: key performance indicators" (sectoral, regional and corporate levels) (moderators: Gruzdov V.V., Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Foundation for Innovative Development of Intellectual Property Market, Doctor of Technical Sciences,Professor; Golobokova G.M., Head of Research Department for Innovative Problems of Intellectual Property, RSRIIP, Doctor of Economics, Professor) focused on the discussion of formation and development of intellectual property management system (IPMS) at corporate and regional levels and key performance indicators of intellectual property economy efficiency when diversifying the production of enterprises of the military-industrial complex, as well as at a professional discussion of the draft national standard GOST R "Intellectual property. Risk Insurance" as part of the expanded meeting of TC 481 "Intellectual Property".

The keynote speeches and presentations at the session were made by Ratkin L.S., Scientific Secretary of the Council of Veterans of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor of the Academy of Military Sciences,Doctor of Technical Sciences – "The experience of registration of intellectual property objects at the enterprises of the military-industrial complex of the Russian Federation"; Fedorov M.V., Deputy Secretary General of the Eurasian Peoples' Assembly, Scientific Consultant of the National Technological Chamber of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences, Doctor of Economics, Professor – "The market of intellectual property in the countries of Central Asia: status, problems and prospects of development"; Chaikovskaya L.A., Professor of the Department of Accounting and Taxation of the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics,Doctor of Economics– "Accounting intangible assets and their impact on the value of the company"; Kolesnikova J.S., Professor of the Department of Human Resource Management, Director of Scientific and Educational Centre "Intellectual Property and Digital Economy" at Kazan (Privolzhsky) Federal University, Doctor of Economics - "Intangible Component of Companies"; Zinnurov V.Kh., Director of the Engineering Centre of Volga-Dnepr Group, researcher of Research Department of Innovative Problems of Intellectual Property at RSRIIP - "Models of intellectual property management in the technological platform, innovation cluster and aircraft construction enterprises"; Kiselev M.N., Head of Intellectual Property Protection at Gazpromneft – Industrial Innovations LLC – "Strategic management of intellectual property of a modern R&D company"; Golobokova G.M., Head of the Research Department of Innovative Problems of Intellectual Property at RSRIIP, Doctor of Economics, Professor – "On the draft of GOST R "Intellectual Property. Risk Insurance"; Battakhov P.P., Senior Researcher at Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Candidate of Law – "Key problems of legal regulation of entrepreneurial contracts in the field of intellectual property", Nechepurenko Y.V., Head of the Scientific and Innovative Department of the Research Institute of Physical and Chemical Problems at the Belarusian State University, Candidate of Chemical Sciences, and Nekhorosheva L.N., Head of the Department of Economics of Industrial Enterprises of the Belarusian State Economic University, Doctor of Economics, Professor - "Infrastructure in the sphere of intellectual property as a constituent part of innovation infrastructure in the Republic of Belarus"; Tselovalnikova I.Y., Associate Professor of the Department of Civil Law of the Russian State University of Justice, Candidate of Law – "Intellectual Property and Innovative Infrastructure in the Investment Sphere".

Session 3 "Intellectual Property and Protection against Unfair Competition and Counterfeiting in International Cooperation" (moderator: Maksimov S.V., Advisor to the Head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia, Chief Researcher at the Institute for the Study of Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Editor-in-Chief of the journal "Russian Competition Law and Economy", Doctor of Law, Professor) focused on discussing the implementation of the road map "Development of Competition in Science" and indicators of performance evaluation of fundamental science and applied research in the EAEU member states in the context of sanctions / counter-sanctions and the crisis of international law, as well as on discussing the draft interstate standard GOST "Intellectual Property. Determining the level of counterfeit goods at the regional level" and the draft national standard on antimonopoly compliance within the framework of the extended meeting of TC 481 "Intellectual Property".

The key speakers of the session were Maksimov S.V., Advisor to the Head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia, Chief Researcher at the Institute for the Study of Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Editor-in-Chief of the journal "Russian Competition Law and Economy" – "Conceptual Approaches to Reforming the National System of Performance Evaluation of Scientific Organisations"; Losev S.S., Leading Researcher of the National Centre of Legislation and Legal Research of the Republic of Belarus, Candidate of Law – "Topical problems of combating abuse of exclusive rights to intellectual property in the legislation and law enforcement practice of the EAEU member states"; Israilov M.L, Acting President of the International Association "Anticounterfeit" - "Issues of protection of intellectual property and counteraction to illegal circulation of industrial products in the context of sanctions pressure"; Shurygin S.N., Deputy Head of the Intellectual Property Rights Protection Unit of the Department for the Development of Entrepreneurial Activity of the Eurasian Economic Commission – "Key directions for the development of the law of the Eurasian Union in the sphere of protection and protection of intellectual property"; Svechnikova I.V., Associate Professor of Civil Law and Procedure at the Stolypin Povolzhsky Institute of Management (branch of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA)), Candidate of Law – "Scientific and practical issues of prevention of unfair competition connected with the use of trademarks"; Getman A.G., Head of the Department of Customs Administration of the North-West Institute of Management – Branch of RANEPA, Candidate of Economics – "Prospects of development of the institute of the customs register of intellectual property objects"; Gorenskaya E.V., Senior Researcher of the Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law of the Government of the Russian Federation, Candidate of Law – "Protection of Intellectual Property in the fuel and energy complex: criminal law aspect"; Morozova M.N., Associate Professor at the Department of Administrative Law of the Kikot Moscow University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation - "Topical issues of harmonisation of the EAEU legislation in the sphere of counteraction to illegal trademark use"; Sushkova O.V., Associate Professor at the Department of Information Law and Digital Technologies, Associate Professor at the Department of Business and Corporate Law at the Kutafin Moscow State Law Universtity, Candidate of Law - "Using LegalTech innovations in counteraction to unfair competition"; Balakin V.V., President of "National Association Compliance" – "IP compliance tools for business subject to legal specifics of international markets"; Matveev P.A., Senior Lecturer of the Branch of the Russian State Social University – "Harmonisation of intellectual property protection legislation in the context of sanctions pressure on Russia".

Session 4 "Artificial Intelligence and Human Resources for the Intellectual Property Market" (moderator: Minbaleev A.V., Head of the Department of Information Law and Digital Technologies of the Kutafin Moscow State Law University, Chief Researcher at RSRIIP, Executive Secretary of the journal "Information Law", Doctor of Law, Associate Professor, Expert of the Russian Academy of Sciences) focused on discussing topical issues of developing and applying educational and professional standards in the field of intellectual property and artificial intelligence technologies.

Keynote speeches on the topic of the session were made by: Afanasyev A.D., Scientific supervisor for postgraduate studies of the Baikal BRICS Institute of Irkutsk National Research Technical University, Doctor of Physics and Mathematics – "Experience of development of educational AI-related programmes on bachelor's and master's degrees in the Irkutsk National Research Technical University"; Zenin I.A., Head of Research Department of Intellectual Property Legal Protection at RSRIIP, Doctor of Law, Professor, Honorary Professor of the Lomonosov Moscow State University – "Technologies for teaching intellectual property law during the COVID-19 pandemic"; Stoppe A.G., Professor at MGIMO, Honorary Worker of Higher Professional Education of Russia, Advisor to the Secretary of State of the Union State, member of the Inter-Academic Council on the Development of the Union State – "Professional and educational factor of the intellectual property market: problems and solutions"; Minbaleev A.V., Head of the Department of Information Law and Digital Technologies of the Kutafin Moscow State Law University – "Issues and prospects for the protection of intellectual property rights to the results created using artificial intelligence"; Avramchuk L.V., Head of the Laboratory "Commodity Science and Expertise" of the Ural State University of Economics’ Unified Laboratory Complex, lecturer – "Young specialists in intellectual property: competence models and educational programmes"; Shubina E.Y. Head of the virtual laboratory of the Ural State University of Economics – "Modern models of employers’ branding: theoretical and empirical analysis"; Shamsutdinov E.V., Deputy Director for Scientific Activity of Engineering Institute of the Kazan (Privolzhsky) Federal University and Karataeva E.S., Director of Integrated Energy Efficiency Training Centre at the Kazan (Privolzhsky) Federal University – "Training of personnel in the sphere of intellectual property on the basis of the Kazan (Privolzhsky) Federal University"; Igbayeva G.R., Head of the Department of Civil Law Disciplines at the St. Petersburg Academy of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, Candidate of Law – "Transformational processes at work in the context of the development of artificial intelligence"; Ivanova D.V., Head of the Department of Intellectual Property Law of the Belarusian State University, Candidate of Law – "Artificial Intelligence as an element of intellectual property rights system"; Rozhkov E.V., postgraduate student of the Ural State University of Economics – "Personnel for Artificial Intelligence development"; Tkachenko D.G., Lecturer of the Moscow Institute of Economics – "Legal regulation of artificial intelligence and HR market for intellectual property"; Abramov S.A., postgraduate student of RANEPA – "Inclusivity in intellectual property law: innovation potential of people with disabilities".

Session 5 "Protection of Intellectual Property Objects in Creative Industries" (moderators: Morgunova E.A., Deputy Head of the Civil Law Department of the Kutafin Moscow State Law University, Candidate of Law; Belova D.A., Associate Professor of the Civil Law Department of the Kutafin Moscow State Law University, Candidate of Law) priority was given to the discussion of the concept of development of creative industries in the Russian Federation.

The keynote speeches and presentations on the topic of the session were made by: Vavilin E.V., Acting Head of the Civil Law Department of the Kutafin Moscow State Law University, Doctor of Law, Professor; Chukovskaya E.E., Director of the Intellectual Property and Digital Economy Research and Education Centre, Candidate of Law – "Creative industries: issues and prospects of legal influence"; Bogdanova E.E., Professor of the Department of Civil Law of Moscow State Law Academy, Doctor of Law –"Issues of intellectual property protection in the sphere of VR technologies"; Valdez-Martinez E.R., Director of Association of Right Holders for Copyright Protection and Management in Fine Art – "Right to follow in the Russian Federation: main current legal implementation issues"; Novikova-Borodina S.V., Composer, member of the Moscow Composers Union, postgraduate student of the Institute of Arts Education and Cultural Studies of the Russian Academy of Education – "Problem of figurative and non-figurative in crisis tendencies of modern philharmonic concert practice expressed in violation of composers' moral rights"; Luzhina A.N., Associate Professor of the Civil Law Department of the Russian State University of Justice, adviser on legal issues to the Russian Academy of Arts, Candidate of Law – "Selected issues of using reproductions of museum collections"; Buzova N.V., Leading Researcher of the Center for the Study of Justice Problems of the Russian State University of Justice, Candidate of Law - "Objects of related rights in the context of the creative industry"; Savitskaya K.D., Senior lecturer of the Civil Law Department of Polotsk State University (Belarus) – "Legal status of multimedia works"; Tulubyeva I.Ju., Managing Partner of Tulubieva, Osipov & Partners - "Legal protection of performances in the context of creative industry development"; Ermakov E., Chef of the bar "Marte Laveau" – "Creative methods of thermal and mechanical processing at public catering establishments" (with a master-class on preparing a creative dish); Morgunova E.A, Associate Professor of the Civil Law Department of the Kutafin Moscow State Law University – "The concept of performance in the context of creative industry development"; Doronchenkova E., CEO of Sedovy-Doronchekov Private Studio – "Zhostovo painting. Problems of acquiring exclusive rights to Zhostovo appellation of origin".

The results of discussions of topical issues during the sessions on the Forum's topic were presented by their moderators at the final evening plenary session, where participants gave public recognition to Myasnikovich M.V., Chairman of the EAEU Board; the CIS Executive Committee; the Russian Government and national academies of sciences for welcoming and paying attention to the Forum, and to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Rossotrudnichestvo, the Board of the Military-Industrial Commission of the Russian Federation and Kutafin Moscow State Law University for support in holding the Forum.

As a result of the discussion, the participants of the Forum unanimously adopted the final document – the Forum's recommendations, which was previously approved at an extended meeting of the Supervisory Board and Scientific Council of RSRIIP with the participation of members of the Programme Committee of the Forum. Detailed information on the work of the Forum, the keynote speeches, the transcript of the Forum meetings, as well as the recommendations of Forum’s participants are freely available in the collection of documents and materials of the Forum on the website of the Forum’s Directorate (rniiis.ru).

The next XIV International Forum "Innovation Development through the Intellectual Property Market" will be held within the framework of the International Intellectual Property Days under the auspices of the UN on 21 April 2023 in Moscow.