Russia

Russia Profile

Russia, also known as the Russian Federation, is located in northern Eurasia. Russia is a semi-presidential federal republic consisting of 83 oblasts. From northwest to southeast, Russia borders Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia and North Korea. Russia and Japan face each other across the Sea of Okhotsk, bordered by the Bering Strait, and adjacent to the state of Alaska in the United States. Russia is the country with the largest land area in the world, with a land area of 17,075,400 square kilometers (6,592,800 square miles), accounting for about 1/8 of the world's total land area. Russia is a member of the Eurasian Patent Convention.

Legal basis of intellectual property rights in Russia

• Civil Code Part IV

International Organizations and International Agreements

• Eurasian Patent Convention
• TRIPS agreement
• Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property
• Patent Cooperation Treaty
• Madrid Agreement on the International Registration of Marks
• Patent Law Treaty
• Trademark Law Treaty