INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IN CONDITIONS OF PARALLEL IMPORT

Abstract

The prerequisites for studying issues, related to intellectual property in the context of parallel imports were the rapid changes, that have occurred in the geopolitical situation in the most global sense over the past few months, as well as a sharp increase in the number of sanctions, imposed on the Russian Federation. Of great importance in this situation was the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation No 506 dated March 29, 2022 “On goods (groups of goods), in respect of which certain provisions of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation on the protection of exclusive rights to the results of intellectual activity, expressed in such goods, and means of individualization, with which such goods are labeled cannot be applied”. It is obvious, that the vast majority of Russian citizens are faced with the problem of forming a new reality and existing in it, so the purpose of the study was to consider the prospects and consequences of parallel imports in our country. To achieve this goal, the following tasks were set: to study the essence of parallel import as such, as well as to clarify the prerequisites for its emergence and development. In this work, various scientific methods were used, such as, for example, methods of synthesis, analysis, generalization, comparison, which as a result allowed us to compile the most complete picture of the prospects for the development of relations in the field of intellectual property under current conditions. As a result of the study, ideas were formed about the main risks and expectations from the legalization of parallel imports, as well as proposed ideas about changes, that will help minimize possible negative consequences in the situation under consideration.