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DECREE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

NO. 673 OF MAY 24, 2011 ON THE FEDERAL SERVICE ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

(with the Amendments and Additions of May 21, 2012)

For the purpose of optimising the structure of the federal bodies of executive power and in accordance with Article 112 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation and Federal Constitutional Law No. 2-FKZ of December 17, 1997 on the Government of the Russian Federation, I hereby decree as follows:

1. The Federal Service on Intellectual Property, Patents and Trademarks shall be renamed into the Federal Service on Intellectual Property.

2. It shall be established that: a) the Federal Service on Intellectual Property shall be the legal successor of the Federal

Service on Intellectual Property, Patents and Trademarks and also the legal successor of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation in the part concerning the legal defence of the interests of the state in the process of the economic and civil-law turnover of the results of research, developmental and technological works of military, special and dual purpose, including on obligations arising as a result of execution of judicial decisions;

b) the leadership of the activity of the Federal Service on Intellectual Property shall be carried out by the Government of the Russian Federation.

3. The following functions shall be assigned to the Federal Service on Intellectual Property:

a) control and supervision in the sphere of the legal protection and use of the results of intellectual activity of civil, military, special and dual purpose created at the expense of the budgetary allocations of the federal budget, and also control and supervision in the established sphere of activity with respect to state customers and organisations executing state contracts stipulating the conduct of research, developmental and technological works;

b) rendering of state services in the established sphere of activity; c) normative-legal regulation of issues concerning the control, supervision and rendering

of state services in the established sphere of activity; 4. Abrogated. 5. There shall be invalidated Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 556

of May 14, 1998 on the Legal Defence of the Results of Research, Developmental and Technological Works of Military, Special and Dual Purpose (Sobraniye Zakonodatelstva Rossiyskoy Federatsii, 1998, No. 20, item 2146).

6. The Government of the Russian Federation shall: a) take the necessary measures for realisation of this Decree; b) within a four-month period: approve the procedure for state customers to manage the rights of the Russian

Federation to the results of intellectual activity of civil, military, special and dual purpose; bring its acts into conformity with this Decree; c) within a six-month period, approve the procedure for control and supervision in the

sphere of the legal protection and use of the results of intellectual activity of civil, military, special and dual purpose created at the expense of the budgetary allocations of the federal budget, and also control and supervision in the established sphere of activity with respect to state customers and organisations executing state contracts stipulating the conduct of research, developmental and technological works;

d) submit proposals for bringing the acts of the President of the Russian Federation into

conformity with this Decree.

7. This Decree shall enter into force of the day of its official publication.

President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev

The Kremlin, Moscow No. 673 May 24, 2011