On the May 20th, 2009 the seventh meeting of the Russia-EU IP
Dialogue took place in the Federal Service for Intellectual Property,
Patents and Trademarks (Rospatent). Representatives of the European
Commission DG Trade, the European Commission DG Internal Market and
Services, Delegation of the European Commission to Russia, Ministry of
Economic Development of the Russian Federation, Ministry of Interior,
Ministry of Health and Social Development, Ministry of Agriculture,
Rospatent and other federal executive authorities took part in the
meeting.
Within the discussion of the legislative initiatives both sides
considered the issues of amendments to the Part four of the Civil Code
of Russian Federation, the Customs Code, the Law on Medicines and the
process of adoption of Rospatent administrative regulations prepared
within the administrative reform.
The EU side informed on the EU legislative initiatives, the
experience of application of new EU Geographical Indications
regulations, the EU initiatives on the improvement of enforcement
practice in the sphere of IP (European Observatory on the problem of
counterfeit products and piracy, initiatives on prevention of
infringements in the Internet, E-YOU Guide) and also on the EU TEMPUS
program.
Both sides exchanged the information on enforcement actions. The EU
side took interest in actions “Net” and “Counterfeit” carried out by
the Ministry of Interior.
The Russian side set a number of cases on violation of Russian
producers’ rights in some EU countries and paid attention to the
exclusion of similar cases in future.
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