Legislation on Intellectual Property in the Russian Federation: Novels Introduced in the Civil Code of R.F. by the Federal Law of March 12, 2014 35 FZ

Abstract

This paper is a short English version of my various articles on this topic published in Russian, in journals: business and the (Chozjaistvo i pravo) and patents and licenses (Patenti i licenzii).As is known modern Russian revolution in the field of intellectual property legislation occurred January 1, 2008: on this day Russian intellectual property legislation was codified, included in the text of the Civil code of the Russian Federation as part fourth of the Civil Code (CC).Part fourth of the Russian CC (Federal law №230-FZ, 2006) entered into force on January 1, 2008.Second Revolution in this field took place during 2014: Federal law №35-FZ, 2014, substantially amending the Fourth part on the CC, entered into force on October the first 2014.The essence and evaluation of these amendments is the subject matter of this paper.Factually the Federal Law №35-FZ (2014) is the eleventh law amending the text of the part fourth of the CC. But all previous amendments were small and not substantial. As far as amendments introduced by the law №35-FZ (2014) are concerned, they are numerous and very, very substantial.I cannot say that the law №35-FZ (2014) represents a new Revolution in the field of intellectual property legislation of my country, but I convinced, that the law is a rather big step towards building a modern system of intellectual property legislation in Russia.Before entering into force of the law №35-FZ (2014) (thereafter - law 35-FZ), the Part fourth of the CC contained 328 articles. The law 35-FZ amends 169 articles of it and adds to it new seven articles.