On December 24, 2023, the final of the competition on international law “Dispute Resolution in the Eurasian Economic Union”, organized by the Department of International Law, took place in Moscow, Russian Federation The Russian State University of Justice with the support of the ANO Center for International and Comparative Legal Studies.
The purpose of the competition, which is held annually, is to increase the interest of students of specialty, bachelor’s and master’s degrees in international legal problems of integration within the framework of the Eurasian Economic Union, as well as the development of legal writing and judicial eloquence skills among future professional lawyers. In total, 18 teams from 7 countries took part in the competition in 2023.
The final of the competition, which was attended by the teams of the National Research University Higher School of Economics and Lomonosov Moscow State University, was held in the format of a game trial (moot court) on a fictional dispute related to the transfer of a dispute on the invalidity of a Eurasian patent for an invention to arbitration established by decision of the Eurasian Economic Commission.
The judging panel within the framework of the competition was headed by the President of the Eurasian Patent Office of the Eurasian Patent Organization Grigory Petrovich Ivliev, who drew attention to the special importance of the development of dispute resolution procedures related to the violation and challenge of rights to inventions and industrial designs protected by Eurasian patents for the Eurasian Patent Organization.
According to the results of the final, the team of Lomonosov Moscow State University was recognized as the winner of the competition.
G.P. Ivliev presented the award “The Best Speaker of the Final Game” to Alexandra Chobotova, a student of the Faculty of Law of the National Research University Higher School of Economics.
Prior to the start of the final of the competition, its organizers held a conference “The Court of the Eurasian Economic Union: on the threshold of change”, within the framework of which Yulia Fedorova, Head of the Legal Department of the Organizational and Legal Department of the Eurasian Patent Office of the Eurasian Patent Organization, made a report “On the creation of the Eurasian judicial jurisdiction in the field of intellectual property”.
A source: eapo.org
