Article: How to best protect your IP rights in the Russia-Eurasia region

24.11.2017

The Asian Patent Lawyer’s Annual 2018 has been published. Our patent attorney Erik Goussev has written an article about how to best protect IP rights in the Russia-Eurasia region.

The whole article (on pages 9-11) and magazine can be read online here.

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