Thursday, July 06, 2006

Copyright Violations in Arms Trade Cost Russia $6Bln Per Year?— Official - MONEY - MOSNEWS.COM

Copyright Violations in Arms Trade Cost Russia $6Bln Per Year?
MOSNEWS, publication date: 5 July 2006
"Russia’s annual losses from exports of unpatented military hardware amount to $5-6 billion, the head of the Russian Federal Intellectual Property, Patent and Trademark Service (Rospatent) Boris Simonov said on Tuesday, July 4.

Speaking at a conference that dealt with legal support of the domestic defense industry, Simonov said: “Today there are no patents for protection of state interests, we deliver the samples of technology, which is not protected by copyright law.”"

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