The Development of the Institute of Compensation for Infringement of Exclusive Rights in the Positions of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation

   The author examines key positions of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation concerning compensation for infringement of exclusive rights from the standpoint of the proportionality of liability to the wrongful act committed by the infringer, and compares these positions with the Court’s stance on other overcompensatory liability measures in private law. The paper analyzes extensive Constitutional Court practice that affects the uniformity of approaches to this type of tortious liability. The author assesses the functions of compensation, namely, the restorative function, under which the mechanism of lawfully established (statutory) damages is implemented, and the punitive function, which, as the author demonstrates, should be realized only indirectly within the examined remedy. Key distinctions are drawn between permissible overcompensatory liability measures in civil law and compensation for infringement of exclusive rights, which, in the author’s view, should not be aimed at punishing the infringer.

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