The “tragedy of the anti-commons” can lead to complex issues in fields of technology characterized by a strong focus on research and innovation, such as the pharmaceutical industry, with reference not only to the mere production of final products, which may be hindered by IPRs, but also to...

In 2015, the Russian military agency made a major step forward in its statistics having published early this year the annual statistical book for the first time since 1914. However, as early as at the stage of preparing the above book which is meant to expand largely departmental statistics...

Regional consolidated budgets are facing three main trends in 2015, namely marked growth of budget revenues, slower growth of budget expenditures, insignificant growth of debts and enhanced debt profile. The dynamics of the regional consolidated budget revenues in 2015 (according to the data on...

In November, the following amendments were introduced in the legislation: the rules were approved that exclusive titles to outputs of intellectual activities developed under a state contract before 1 January 2008 are vested in performers of that work provided that the customer did not implement...

In October, the following amendments were introduced into the legislation: such new as well as updated norms of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation as regulate the civil institute of the international private law will become effective from November 2013; the annual quota on education of foreign...

In July, the following main amendments were introduced into the legislation: the periods of re-issuing of the license to carry out educational activities and the certificate of state accreditation have been extended; resources of funds for support of scientific, R&D and innovation activities along...

The paper looks at sports events from the perspective of intellectual property rights, the object being to describe the clash between public domain and property rights.Drawing on legislation and case law in the USA and Denmark, the paper analyzes the legal position on three topics: the sports...

The rise of financial technology (fintech) has the potential to provide better-quality financial services to more people. Although these enhanced financial services have arisen to meet consumer need, their regulatory status threatens that progress. Many fintech firms are regulated on a...

In June, the following amendments were introduced into the legislation: the list of grounds for carrying out extraordinary inspection of non-profit organizations; amendments aimed at expansion of the methods of provision of insurance services by means of electronic sales by individual types of...

The franchisor-franchisee relationship is unique in that it has characteristics of both an arm's length business transaction as well as an ongoing business relationship. As time goes by, however, the interests of the parties may diverge. It is in the franchisees' interest to make their...