WORLD TRADE  
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WT/ACC/RUS/64 
3 October 2011 
 (11-4764) 
Working Party on the Accession 
of the Russian Federation Original:   English 
 
 
 
ACCESSION OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION 
 
Membership of International In tellectual Property Conventions 
and of Regional or Bilateral Agreements 
 
  The following submission, dated 7 January 2011 , is being circulated at the request of the 
Delegation of the Russian Federation.  
 
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 I. MEMBERSHIP OF INTERNATIONAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY 
CONVENTIONS AND OF REGIONAL  OR BILATERAL AGREEMENTS 
1. The Russian Federation is a party to the fo llowing Multilateral International Agreements on 
Intellectual Property: 
- The Convention Establishing the Worl d Intellectual Property Organization; 
- The Agreement between the Russian Agency on Patents and Trademarks and the International 
Bureau of the World Intellectual Property Orga nization on Performing by the Russian Agency 
on Patents and Trademarks Functions of the International Searching Authority and the 
International Preliminary Examining Aut hority of Patent Cooperation Treaty;  
- The WIPO Copyright Treaty (WPC); 
- The WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty (WPPT); 
- The International Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and 
Broadcasting Organizations (the Rome Convention);  
- The Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property (Stockholm Act of 
14 July 1967); 
- The Madrid Agreement Concerning the Interna tional Registration of Marks (Stockholm Act); 
- The Protocol to the Madrid Agreement Concer ning the International Registration of Marks; 
- The Nice Agreement Concerning the Internati onal Classification of Goods and Services for 
the Purposes of the Registration of Marks (Geneva Act); 
- The Locarno Agreement Establishing an Intern ational Classification for Industrial Designs; 
- The Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT); 
- The Strasbourg Agreement Concerning th e International Patent Classification; 
- The Convention Relating to the Distributio n of Program-Carrying Signal Transmitted by 
Satellite; 
- The Budapest Treaty on the International R ecognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for 
the Purposes of Patent Procedure; 
- The Nairobi Treaty on the Protection of the Olympic Symbol; 
- The Universal (Geneva) Copyright Conven tion, as revised in 1971 (with additional 
protocols); 
- The Berne Convention for the Protection of Lite rary and Artistic Works (as revised in 1971); 
- The Convention for the Protection of Producers of Phonograms Against Unauthorized 
Duplication of their Phonograms; 
- The International Convention for the Protecti on of New Varieties of Plants (the "UPOV" 
Convention);  WT/ACC/RUS/64 
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 - The Trademark Law Treaty (TLT); 
- The Agreement on Cooperation in the Protection of Copyrights and Related Rights (a regional 
accord of CIS countries); 
- The Eurasian Patent Convention (a regional accord of CIS countries); and - The Singapore Trademark Law Treaty (2006). 
2. The Russian Federation has signed Bilateral Intergovernmental Agreements on Industrial 
Property Protection with other CIS countries.  Th ese Agreements provide for the interaction of 
subjects of legal relations from CIS countries with the Patent Office of the Russian Federation without 
Russian patent attorneys and payment of patent fees by these subjects in the order and amount determined for Russian applicants, which is jus tifiable by the common post space and availability of 
agreements on payments in Russian rubles.  
3. Individual aspects of intellectual property pr otection are addressed in the following Bilateral 
Agreements of the Russian Federation: 
- The Agreement on Trade Relations between th e Government of the Soviet Union and the 
Government of the United States of America (ori ginally concluded, Washington, 1 June 1990, 
entered into force on 17 June 1992); 
- The Agreement on Science and Technology C ooperation between the Government of the 
Russian Federation and the Government of  the United States of America (Moscow, 
16 December 1993); 
- The Agreement on Trade and Economic Coope ration between the Russian Federation and the 
Swiss Confederation (Moscow, 12 May 1994); 
- The Agreement on Partnership and Coopera tion Establishing a Partnership between the 
European Communities and their Member States, of the One Part, and the Russian Federation, 
of the Other Part (Corfu, 24 June 1994); 
- The Agreement on Science and Technology C ooperation between the Government of the 
Russian Federation and the Government of the Italian Republic (Rome, 1 December 1995); 
- The Agreement on Trade and Economic Cooperati on between the Government of the Russian 
Federation and the Kingdom of Norway (Oslo, 26 March 1996); 
- The Agreement on Protection of Intellectual Pr operty Rights between the Government of the 
Russian Federation and the Government of the People's Republic of China (Beijing, 
25 April 1996); 
- The Agreement on Cooperation in the Field of Research and Utilization of Space for Peaceful 
Purpose between the Government of the Russi an Federation and the Government of the 
France Republic (Paris, 26 November 1996); 
- The Agreement on Science and Technology C ooperation between the Government of the 
Russian Federation and the Government of the Arabian Republic of Egypt (Moscow, 
23 September 1997); WT/ACC/RUS/64 
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 - The Agreement on Cooperation in Research and Utilization of Space for Peaceful Purpose 
between the Government of the Russian Fede ration and the Government of the People's 
Republic of China (Brazil, 21 November 1997); 
- The Agreement on Cooperation on Suppression of Infringements in the Field of Intellectual 
Property between CIS countries (Moscow, 6 March 1998); 
- The Agreement on Cooperation in Research and Utilization of Space for Peaceful Purpose 
between the Government of the Russian Fede ration and the Government of the Hungary 
Republic (Budapest, 20 October 1999); 
- The Agreement on Science and Technology C ooperation between the Government of the 
Russian Federation and the European Community (Brussels, 16 November 2000); 
- The Agreement on Cooperation in Research and Utilization of Space for Peaceful Purpose 
between the Government of the Russian Federa tion and the Government of the Republic of 
Italy (Moscow, 28 November 2000); 
- The Agreement on Cooperation in the Field of Research and Utilization of Space for Peaceful 
Purpose between the Government of the Russi an Federation and the Government of the 
Belgian Kingdom (Moscow, 20 December 2000); 
- The Agreement on Cooperation in the Field of Research and Utilization of Space for Peaceful 
Purpose between the Government of the Russi an Federation and the Government of the 
Federal Republic of Germany (S t. Petersburg, 10 April 2001); 
- The Agreement on Cooperation in the Field of Research and Utilization of Space for Peaceful 
Purpose between the Government of the Russi an Federation and the Government of the 
Australia (Canberra, 23 May 2001); 
- The Agreement on Science and Technology C ooperation between the Government of the 
Russian Federation and the Government of the Kingdom of Spain (Madrid, 15 November 2001); 
- The Agreement on Cooperation a nd Partnership in the Field of Research and Utilization of 
Space for Peaceful Purpose between the Govern ment of the Russian Federation and the 
European Space Agency (Paris, 11 February 2003); 
- The Agreement on Science and Technology C ooperation between the Government of the 
Russian Federation and the Government of  Malaysia (Putradjaya, 5 August 2003); 
- The Agreement on Cooperation in the Field of Research and Utilization of Space for Peaceful 
Purpose between the Government of the Russi an Federation and the Government of the 
Republic of Korea (Moscow, 21 September 2004); 
- The Agreement on Cooperation in the Area of Protection of Intellectual Property between the 
Government of the Russian Federation an d the Government of Georgia (Moscow, 
21 September 2004); 
- The Agreement on Cooperation in the Field of Research and Utilization of Space for Peaceful 
Purpose between the Government of the Russi an Federation and the Government of India 
(New Delhi, 3 December 2004); and  WT/ACC/RUS/64 
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 - The Agreement on Intellectual Property Rights between the Government of the Russian 
Federation and the Government of the United States of America (Hanoi, 19 November 2006). 
 
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