Directive board of National Center for Intellectual Property resigns

According to the innovations, the specialists of the patent body were deprived of the state officials status. The directive board of the center, as well as some employees, resigned as a protest against such reforms.

"We don't know what we will come to but we will try to revive what our country has been building for more than twenty years and practically destroyed in several months, having thought it would be reasonable to deprive the intellectual property specialists of the state officials status with an aim of optimization of the system of state bodies and other organizations," - stated in the open letter, published on the organization's official website.