{"id":2212,"date":"2018-06-18T08:28:46","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T08:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dekuzu.com\/en\/?p=2212"},"modified":"2018-06-18T08:28:46","modified_gmt":"2018-06-18T08:28:46","slug":"russian-federal-antitrust-service-explained-why-it-proposed-to-restrict-the-monopoly-of-ip-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dekuzu.com\/en\/2018\/06\/russian-federal-antitrust-service-explained-why-it-proposed-to-restrict-the-monopoly-of-ip-rights.html","title":{"rendered":"Russian Federal Antitrust Service explained why it proposed to restrict the monopoly of IP rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">No so long time ago the Russian Federal Antitrust Service (FAS) has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dekuzu.com\/en\/2018\/06\/restricting-the-monopoly-of-ip-rights-as-antitrust-measure-in-russia.html\">proposed<\/a> to restrict the monopoly of IP rights in order to protect competition in digital Russian market. The so called \u201cfifth antitrust packet\u201d provides opportunity to deprive the developers of their rights in trademarks, software and inventions. FAS believes it is justified in the terms of sanctions imposed on Russia; as long as the sanctions are in force, the IP rights can be diminished.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">FAS justifies its position in comments to the <a href=\"http:\/\/regulation.gov.ru\/projects#npa=79428\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">draft law<\/a> with decision of Russian Constitutional Court. The court\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/rg.ru\/2018\/02\/22\/postanovlenie-ks-dok.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">decision<\/a> to the large extent concerns the parallel import. Russian company has acquired the special paper, produced by Sony, through the chain of intermediaries and imported this paper into Russia. The imported production contained Sony\u2019s trade mark. Sony has sued the Russian company. The court stated that right holder \u201ccan unfair use exclusive right in trade mark and restrict the import of its production into Russian internal market and set up high prices on its products in this internal market.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the court, \u201csuch right holder\u2019s deeds can be especially dangerous in the context of sanctions, introduced against Russia, therefore the right holder\u2019s suit can be refused, partially or entirely, if satisfaction of his requirements can create a threat to constitutionally significant values\u201d. FAS has also underlined that transnational companies have direct impact on competition in Russian market.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe transnational companies\u2019 impact is significant, including the fact that they own software, including operational systems (like Google, Apple or Microsoft). Therefore maintaining and securing playing level field for all stakeholders in digital markets, protection of Russian companies require timely reaction to emerging of new features and mechanisms of activity of suppliers and customers\u201d, &#8211; stated FAS.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No so long time ago the Russian Federal Antitrust Service (FAS) has proposed to restrict the monopoly of IP rights in order to protect competition in digital Russian market. The so called \u201cfifth antitrust packet\u201d provides opportunity to deprive the<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dekuzu.com\/en\/2018\/06\/russian-federal-antitrust-service-explained-why-it-proposed-to-restrict-the-monopoly-of-ip-rights.html\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Russian Federal Antitrust Service explained why it proposed to restrict the monopoly of IP rights<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,6,18,20,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-competition","category-intellectual-property","category-law","category-legal-proposal","category-russian-law","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dekuzu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dekuzu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dekuzu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dekuzu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dekuzu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dekuzu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dekuzu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dekuzu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dekuzu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}