Current Trends in Customs Enforcement of Measures to Protect Intellectual Property Rights Within EurAsEC

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to consider modern technologies for the protection of rights to intellectual property objects (hereinafter—OIP) in the context of the development of integrated information digital systems in the unified customs territory of EurAsEC by analyzing: the legal component, international activities and projects. At the present stage of economic development, intellectual property occupies a special place from all types of property. The spread of counterfeit and falsified products, especially in the field of the production of medicines and food products, has reached a peak of development. Only in the territory of the EAEU, the amount of counterfeit goods reaches 30% percent, which entails not only financial losses of producers, but also leads to other grave consequences, namely, harm to health and life of people. The main legal acts regulating the procedure and methods of protection of rights to OIP are considered and analyzed. Emphasis is placed on the need to introduce a single customs register of intellectual property of the member states of the Union as a tool for optimizing copyright protection mechanisms. In the course of the research, gaps were identified in the activities of the Eurasian Economic Commission to create a single information space throughout the customs territory of the Union member states and ways to solve them were proposed. An analysis of statistical data characterizing the activities of the Federal Customs Service of the Russian Federation regarding the protection of OIP in recent years has been carried out.