Scientific and production Corporation "Uralvagonzavod" have signed an agreement with the international Association of "anti-counterfeit" in the field of combating illegal turnover of industrial products freight railway car building. The document was signed by Deputy General Director for legal issues and corporate governance of the Corporation "Uralvagonzavod" Roman Asian and first Vice-President of the Association "Anticounterfeit" Basalt of Gamzatov.
under the agreements, the parties will exchange information on the facts of illegal trade and to identify counterfeit goods, which will subsequently allow to enter into legal civil turnover of products or to stop its use. Such work between the UVZ Corporation and the international Association "Anticounterfeiting" has already begun.
the Subject of the agreement in the first place, is to detect illegal import and export on the territory of the EAEU of cast parts for car products. Today the market of rolling stock there is a shortage of casting for a number of positions, because each year tens of thousands of counterfeit products illegally cross the border. This jeopardizes the security of rail transport.
Also UVZ intends to initiate work on introduction in the state customs register of intellectual property objects of the Uralvagonzavod. Then the Corporation will be able to control the movement of industrial products, marked with her trademark across the border.
In case of positive results of railway products, the cooperation between the UVZ Corporation and the international Association "Anticounterfeit" will be developed in other areas, such as special equipment and Souvenirs.
the plant currently has more than 90 license agreements for civilian goods and means of individualization – trademarks and registered more than 20 trademarks. Licensees are producers of prefabricated models, high tech models, toys and gift products for civil and military equipment.
Over the past few years Uralvagonzavod has achieved significant progress in the fight against counterfeit products. For example, in 2019 charged in court more than 8 million rubles for illegal use of trademarks UVZ and violation of the exclusive rights. There is successful experience of the prohibition of the illegal use of the abbreviation "DC" in domain names.
"the Counterfeit on the building market is a problem not only for the plant but also of all domestic producers of cars, she was repeatedly raised by the Institute of railway transport, is discussed at meetings of the Association of wagon builders and Enterprises of railway equipment manufacturers. Uralvagonzavod already developed systems end-to-end marking associated with the electronic passport of the car, which will allow you to track the product on the rail network and will eliminate duplication of products. But for maximum suppression of counterfeiting it is necessary to develop common standards at the national level", – said Deputy General Director for legal issues and corporate governance of the Corporation "Uralvagonzavod" Roman Vasiyan.
