President of the Russian Federation: Copyright protection – top priority task

President of Russia Dmitry A. Medvedev considers protection of copyright and intellectual property a top priority task countrywide. At the session aimed at judicial system improvement he acknowledged the existence of this problem, which impedes inventors in Russia and Russia in general entering the World Trade Organization.

He reminded that “in Soviet times the share of such cases was insignificant, while the intellectual property protection – was imperfect”. “Later we set up a modern legislation, but protection remains vulnerable”, – President of Russia stressed.

He claimed that “when being reproved or asked about the intellectual property protection we are at our wit’s end. A case in point is the President’s recent trip to the Silicon Valley in the USA, “where smart alecks insist that it is difficult for them to get a protection in Russia”.

“It has nothing to deal with them but it is our inventors, authors who should get a contemporary protection system, let along such a trifle as entering the World Trade Organization”, - he added.