JULY / AUGUST 2000
Russia begins the road to reform
Russia and the other former countries of the Soviet Union are a nightmare for rights owners. Now a group of companies have got together to tackle the problems from the bottom up. James Nurton reports
The fight back has begun. In June this year, the first
conference of the Coalition for Intellectual Property Rights (CIPR)
was held at the Marriott in Moscow. Business people from all over
the world, judges, heads of patent offices, enforcement officials
and politicians met for three days to discuss the IP problems in
the region and how to tackle them. About 50 yards away, in the
subway under the Tversakaya Ulitsa, there was ample evidence of the
need for the conference: rows of counterfeit CDs and videos selling
for a few dollars each, bottles of counterfeit vodka piled high and
McLenin tee-shirts by the dozen.
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