Posted on 03/20/2022 4:05:22 AM PDT by FarCenter
As part of its deadly assault on Ukraine, Russia has taken the rare step to use intellectual property rights as a war tactic.
In early March, the Russian government issued a decree saying that Russian companies are no longer obliged to compensate owners of patents, utility models and industrial designs from “unfriendly” countries. These are the western states who have issued sanctions against Russia, including the UK and US.
This means that Russian businesses can use intellectual property, such as patented inventions or fashion designs, without having to pay or seek the consent of the rights holders. Affected companies cannot enforce their patents and designs against Russian imitators.
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The sanctions have also led a Russian judge to dismiss a copyright and trademark infringement lawsuit brought by the British company that produces animated series Peppa Pig. Andrei Slavinsky said in court that the “unfriendly actions of the United States of America and affiliated foreign countries” influenced his decision.
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Hopefully, it will induce more companies not to do business in Russia.
This is kind of fascinating, because if every other country that had a territorial dispute were to follow up with this tactic, the entire patent system would go haywire.
What, they thought they could sanction Russia to the sky and Russia wouldn’t respond? This is just tit for tat.
The main idea is for the owners of the Western franсhises to keep operating where their parent companies left the market.
I don’t see a problem here. If the company doesn’t want to be on the market, but the consumers got used to the product or service, it is a no lose situation for the original company.
It is not about dispute but about companies leaving the market.
“Russia using intellectual property as a war tactic”
Oh, tisk, tisk. Now McDonald’s loses their biggest profit center in the world...but at least they virtue signaled!!!
This was done in WWI and WWII with respect to German held patents and copyright. Not new at all.
Russia is about to be cut out of the World’s technology loop
Who in their right mind would introduce any new patented technology to a country that admits it will openly steal it?
Russia will now be going backwards, technology-wise
Well, I guess we are free to go after Masha and the Bear!
Those companies are already boycotting them. What does Russia have to lose.
Who in their right mind would introduce any new patented technology to a country that admits it will openly steal it?
***Well, China and Taiwan have been doing that for decades.
Well, we are going back to the cold war. (Pretty hot now).
During the communism era, Russia did not recognized patents and copyrights either.
And China is more-less like this even now.
>>>Andrei Slavinsky said in court that the “unfriendly actions of the United States of America and affiliated foreign countries” influenced his decision.
For sure, that’s not a legal decision, it’s purely political & probably ordered from the top down.
(Peppa Pig)
Peppa Pig makes me want to push the button already. Salvo the whole ICBM fleet.
At the production facilities.
“I don’t see a problem here. If the company doesn’t want to be on the market, but the consumers got used to the product or service, it is a no lose situation for the original company.”
A real diplomat would have buried a carrot in this by saying, “for the duration of the western sanctions.” That would create some pressure from those companies on the western politicians.
Why? Russia can steal a company’s intellectual property whether that company does business with them or not. And the trust train left the station with the sanctions.
Russians just continue to blow their own brains out.
In 2032, the world’s pariah will still be stuck using ten year technology they ripped off, no updates, no bug fixes. What a winning game plan. /sarc
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