The Russian government allows domestic companies and individuals to infringe the intellectual property of companies from “unfriendly countries” – whether protected by a patent, utility model or design – with impunity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This can be concluded from a decree dated March 6, 2022 (<\/a>http:\/\/publication.pravo.gov.ru\/Document\/View\/0001202203070005<\/a>). <\/p>\n\n\n\n Therein, it is stated (in the English machine translation):<\/p>\n\n\n\n With regard to patent holders associated with foreign states that commit unfriendly acts in relation to Russian legal and natural persons […], the amount of compensation shall be 0 percent of the actual income of the person who exercised the right of use.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n In other words, a patent proprietor from an \u201cunfriendly state\u201d cannot claim damages from a Russian company in the event of patent infringement under any circumstances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Currently, patent holders from 48 countries – including all member states of the EU, the USA and Japan – are affected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15618","maiwald-blog","type-maiwald-blog","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maiwald.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/maiwald-blog\/15618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maiwald.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/maiwald-blog"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maiwald.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/maiwald-blog"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.maiwald.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/maiwald-blog\/15618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15620,"href":"https:\/\/www.maiwald.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/maiwald-blog\/15618\/revisions\/15620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maiwald.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}