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RASSIA'S DUMA TO PROTECT RIGHTS OF KNOW-HOW TECHNOLOGIES DESIGNERS
MOSCOW, June 4 (Itar-Tass) - Russia's State Duma, the lower house of parliament plans considering a bill that will defend the rights ofinventors of innovative technologies in the industrial sector.
The house will hear the bill in first reading Wednesday.
State Duma speaker Boris Gryzlov said provisions of the bill will make it possible to transfer the technologies invented at government-controlled factories to private enterprises on the basis of bidding contests and tenders.
"This is a step in the right direction in terms of defending theintellectual property," Gryzlov said.
The bill stipulates that bidding contests for acquisition oftechnologies invented at state-owned factories will be open to the public, with the exception of cases where they pertain to defense manufacturing and fall into the category of state secrets.
Also, the bill sets the rules for signing agreements on technologytransfers.
One of theses rules stipulates that the technologies transferred this way should necessarily be used in the manufacturing activity.
If the winner of a bidding contest is a foreign company, the billprovides details on the documents that will be mandatory for completing such transactions.
The bill offers a definition of the notion of state technologies,envisioning that it will apply to the technological inventions funded by no less than 50% from the state budget.
The Russian government submitted the document to the State Duma inApril.
Its authors believe it will help "regulate relations in thedistribution of intellectual activity products and create an impetus for the transfer of technologies to manufacturers, thus ensuring development of the national sector of innovations.
The house will hear the bill in first reading Wednesday.
State Duma speaker Boris Gryzlov said provisions of the bill will make it possible to transfer the technologies invented at government-controlled factories to private enterprises on the basis of bidding contests and tenders.
"This is a step in the right direction in terms of defending theintellectual property," Gryzlov said.
The bill stipulates that bidding contests for acquisition oftechnologies invented at state-owned factories will be open to the public, with the exception of cases where they pertain to defense manufacturing and fall into the category of state secrets.
Also, the bill sets the rules for signing agreements on technologytransfers.
One of theses rules stipulates that the technologies transferred this way should necessarily be used in the manufacturing activity.
If the winner of a bidding contest is a foreign company, the billprovides details on the documents that will be mandatory for completing such transactions.
The bill offers a definition of the notion of state technologies,envisioning that it will apply to the technological inventions funded by no less than 50% from the state budget.
The Russian government submitted the document to the State Duma inApril.
Its authors believe it will help "regulate relations in thedistribution of intellectual activity products and create an impetus for the transfer of technologies to manufacturers, thus ensuring development of the national sector of innovations.
