Russia Establishes Specialised Court For Intellectual Property Rights

As of 1 February 2013, a specialised court for intellectual property rights (the IPR Court) is instituted within the system of commercial (‘arbitrazh’) courts of the Russian Federation. The IPR Court was established by the Federal constitutional law of 6 December 2011 N 4-FKZ that amended the Federal constitutional law “On the Judicial System of the Russian Federation,” and the Federal constitutional law “On Commercial Courts of the Russian Federation.” In a recent interview, Lyudmila Novoselova, the newly appointed head of the IPR Court, discussed the advantages of a specialised court and, generally, acclaimed the idea of specialisation, without which “we would still be enjoying wearing the clothes that we had sewn ourselves out of the animal skin.”

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