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Skolkovo to scrutinize its resident companies and remove tricksters

November 19, 2014

In a bid to spruce up its ever-growing project portfolio, the Skolkovo Foundation has leaked to the press its plans to weed out ‘bad’ residents. In an exchange with the Russian business daily Vedomosti, Alexei Beltyukov, Skolkovo’s senior vice president for development and commercialization, said that the Foundation, which runs the state-sponsored Skolkovo innovation hub …

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Piracy in Russia’s music market eclipses legitimate sector – RIAA

November 19, 2014

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) issued a statement earlier this month showing that in music markets such as Russia and China, “the levels of piracy are so great that they essentially eclipse the output of the legitimate sector.” Commenting on this year’s broader annual “Special 301” report to the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) …

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Russia’s Pirate Party set to host banned websites abroad and blacklist government blacklisters

November 19, 2014

The Pirate Party of Russia, a socio-political group campaigning for “commerce-free exchange of information on the Internet,” is launching a specialized web hosting service, Piratehost.net, just three weeks after the Russian Ministry of Justice refused to register it officially for bureaucratic reasons. In his blog, Party vice chairman Stanislav Shakirov called his group’s initiative an …

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Russia masterminds ‘patent armor’ for domestic intellectual property

January 18, 2013

The Russian Ministry of Telecommunications has been tasked with developing a set of measures aimed at ensuring international legal protection of intellectual property (IP) owned by Russian companies, Venture-News.ru reported earlier this week. The work was kick-started by Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev in late December 2012. The planned measures are said to include government subsidies …

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Russia grants international investors preferential visa regime

January 17, 2013

Last week Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law a draft bill supplementing and amending the country’s current visa legislation. The new law grants preferential visa treatment to representatives of large international corporations investing in Russia and of companies participating in two key state-supported programs: Skolkovo, the giant tech hub under completion on the outskirts …

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Phony “New Year godsend” under Apple and Samsung guise seized in Moscow

November 19, 2014

Last month the Russian police confiscated 103 packaged bales full of fake Apple and Samsung phones; they estimate 10 million rubles ($310,000+) and 179 million rubles ($5.6 million), respectively, in damages for the trademark holders. As many as 8,400 handsets “with unmistakable signs of falsification,” stacked on a train that ran from Vladivostok, in Russia’s …

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US, Russia agree anti-piracy plan

December 27, 2012

Last week the Russian and US governments signed an agreement that contains an action plan to protect intellectual property rights. The agreement requires the parties to fight online piracy, close websites hosting litigious content, allocate funds for anti-piracy enforcement measures and coordinate efforts towards these ends. Russia will have to alter its current legislation – particularly …

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Russia drafts its new IP protection strategy and encourages public feedback

December 7, 2012

The Russian Ministry of Education and Science has announced the start of a public debate over this country’s new long-term intellectual property (IP) protection strategy, portal Science and Technologies Russia reported earlier this week. The document is reported to have accumulated opinions and suggestions from Russia’s leading experts who represent VC funds, venture companies and larger …

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Online register lists banned web content as controversial legislation comes into force

November 2, 2012

In what is being touted as a crackdown on cyber-extremism and banned information that may be harmful to children, the Russian government has opened a portal listing outlawed websites. The portal, which has been dubbed the Unified Register, will be temporarily run by the Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecom, Information Technologies and Mass Communications (Roskomnadzor). The …

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Unlicensed software still widespread in Russian companies, but repression intensifies

October 24, 2012

An estimated forty-three percent of Russian employees use unlicensed copies of software at work, copies that in a majority of cases were installed by their employers, revealed a survey conducted by Russian online job site HH.ru earlier this month. Employers’ greed is the main culprit, according to the respondents, who suffer from a range of …

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‘Innocence of Muslims’ banned in Russia; YouTube under judicial threat

October 3, 2012

A Moscow court on Monday condemned the film “Innocence of Muslims” as “extremist” – citing  a 2002 law regulating public expression – and has forbidden its dissemination on the territory of the Russian Federation. The court’s decision, which has not yet been announced officially, was revealed on Tuesday by Minister of Communications and Mass Media …

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Online retailer found guilty of trademark infringement in ‘gray import’ scheme

September 20, 2012

Last month, the Russian Supreme Court of Arbitration issued a ruling that dashed any hopes the Bestwatch.ru online retailer had for a favorable settlement with Longines Watch, a renowned Swiss watchmaker. Following the withholding of its petition to suspend an earlier legal resolution, the Russian online store will have to pay 3 million rubles, or …

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