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IP as a political instrument in Russia

The IPKat

Initially, neither the 1992 Law on Trademarks, Service Marks and Designations of Origin , nor the 1992 Patent Law , had provided that putting patented or trademarked goods onto the market within Russia exhausted IP rights. The picture in the upper middle is by Amin and is licensed under the Cretive Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0

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