Russian firms now allowed to violate patents from "unfriendly" countries

Patents no longer guarantee protection in Russia, as it is now legal to infringe intellectual property on numerous goods, potentially including drug patents, in the country.
Photo: Finn Frandsen/Ritzau Scanpix
Photo: Finn Frandsen/Ritzau Scanpix
by NICOLINE NOE, translated by daniel pedersen

Russia has made it legal to steal patents from countries it deems ”unfriendly” towards it, reports The Washington Post.

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