On June 10, 2015 in Moscow the IV annual The Moscow Times “Actual issues of intellectual property" Conference was held. Representatives of the State Duma and of the Court for intellectual property rights, heads of legal departments, patent attorneys, heads and specialists of the legal protection of intellectual property, as well as other experts in the field attended the Conference.
The main speakers at the Conference were Anatoly Semenov, representative of the Presidential Commissioner for Entrepreneurs’ Rights in the IP spere, Andrey Poptsov, Head of the IP Legal Protection office at the Department of legal and corporate work, Rosatom; Svetlana Astafieva, patent attorney, senior legal adviser for intellectual property, Knauf; Alexander Savelyev, lawyer at IBM, Higher Senior Officer of HSE; Roman Zakharov, head of the subcommittee on combating violations of intellectual property rights, the spread of counterfeit products, Russian Chamber of Commerce; Pavel Katkov, President of nonprofit partnership "Association of copyright holders"; Kira Bubnova, Head of the department of the analysis and generalization of judicial practice, legislation and statistics, Court for intellectual property rights; and many others. The participants had the opportunity to discuss actual issues in IP, to communicate with the speakers, as well as make new business contacts during coffee breaks and after the conference.