In January-February 2025, Managing Partner of «A.Zalesov & Partners» Patent & Law Firm, PhD in Law Aleksey V. Zalesov delivered an author course of lectures on «International Intellectual Property Law» for second-year master's students of the Faculty of Law of the National Research University – Higher School of Economics as a guest lecturer.
During 20 hours of lectures, master's students became acquainted with the history of the development of international intellectual property law, with the main provisions of the most important international treaties regulating interstate relations and private-law interactions of parties regarding industrial property, copyright and related rights at the present time.
The students received general knowledge about the functioning of international legal mechanisms in the field of IP at the global, regional and national levels and learned about the current activities of the main international organizations on intellectual property: the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the European Patent Office (EPO), the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), the Eurasian Patent Office (EAPO), as well as about the functioning of the Madrid system for registering trademarks, the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) system in the international and national phases, the Hague system for the protection of industrial designs.
Aleksey V. Zalesov read the author's course in English, which allowed the master's students to develop further their professional communication skills in this language of international communication using specialized terminology from the field of intellectual property.