CONVERTING TO A NEW PHILOSOPHY AT LAW: THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY 1992-2009

摘要

In most modern-day industrialized nations, the concept and body of intellectual property laws is well into its third century of development and testing. The Russian Federation, however, has been forced to create and implement an entirely new body of intellectual property law since the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s. As American and other western firms have more and more to do with the Russian Federation as a supplier and customer, they must recognize that the new nation has, in the last decade-and-a-half, adapted itself from a legal philosophy that denied the existence of personal or corporate intellectual property to one possessing a body of intellectual property laws and philosophies aspiring to fulfill the nation's claim to be a twenty-first century commercial and industrial power. This adaptation is still evolving and foreigners considering a commitment to the Russian economy must keep this in mind.