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OFFICE OF FOREIGN ASSETS CONTROL
Russian Harmful Foreign Activities Sanctions Regulations
31 CFR part 587
GENERAL LICENSE NO. 31
Authorizing Certain Transactions Related to Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights
(a) Except as provided in paragraph (b) of this general license, the following transactions in connection with a patent, trademark, copyright, or other form of intellectual property protection in the United States or the Russian Federation that would be prohibited by the Russian Harmful Foreign Activities Sanctions Regulations, 31 CFR part 587 (RuHSR), are authorized:
(1) The filing and prosecution of any application to obtain a patent, trademark, copyright, or other form of intellectual property protection;
(2) The receipt of a patent, trademark, copyright, or other form of intellectual property protection;
(3) The renewal or maintenance of a patent, trademark, copyright, or other form of...
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1) With certain exceptions noted, the ITSR, SySR, NKSR, Venezuela and Russia-related GLs for certain transactions related to patents, trademarks, copyrights, and other intellectual property are substantively identical, and are presumably interpreted accordingly.
Note that this provision, for the time being, overlaps substantively with Russia-related General License 13. GL 13 authorizes payments to a bank account held at the Central Bank of Russia that is necessary for the payment of patent fees in Russia.
2) This provision (or its analogues) has been subject to some notable interpretation. In...