Despite the global pandemic situation related to COVID-19, as well as recently introduced sanctions and business restrictions against Russia, during the last couple of years Russia has been experiencing a permanent growth in intellectual property (IP) dealings and transactions. For example, since 2017, as we see from annual reports of RUPTO (Rospatent),1 there has been an increase in the total number of registered license agreements. In 2018, 9,244 trademark-related grants were registered under license and franchise agreements, and 12,757 in 2022 in total. This year we expect more to come, due to a revival of IP and technology deals connected with Asia and the Middle East.