The annual Patenting School , an annual two-day conference aimed at providing participants with practical knowledge of how to patent hi-tech projects, both in Russia and abroad, got underway at the Skolkovo Technopark on Thursday. The annual Patenting...
How can traditional intellectual property protection institutions such as patents continue to function in a world where new technologies are developed and go out-of-date in the space of a few months, if patents can take five years to obtain? If a robot creates...
For centuries, ambitious young people have gone into law believing they would never be in want of work: the world will always need lawyers, so the thinking went. In the 21 st century, amid growing predictions that many human jobs will soon be outsourced to...
A proposal sent to Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev to use artificial intelligence to improve Russia’s legal system made the headlines this week, but this process is in fact already underway. Robot-lawyers, the use of blockchain to create smart contracts...
Scientists and tech entrepreneurs from across Russia who are anxious to protect their inventions gathered at the Skolkovo innovation centre this week for an intensive Patenting School aimed at providing participants with all the information they need to register...
Senior representatives of the intellectual property offices of the BRICS countries met at the Skolkovo innovation centre on Tuesday to exchange ideas on helping startups to secure their property rights. Representatives of intellectual property offices...
Skolkovo has begun accepting applications from startup companies in the agriculture business and expects its first residents by the end of the year, opening up new avenues of research that experts say are of critical importance for biotech in Russian and beyond...
Improvements in this version of Startup Village: Record crowds, new setting, creative catering. Like the leading smartphone apps, Startup Village is constantly evolving. The third edition of Russia and Eastern Europe’s biggest startup event is no...