Re: East Grand Blvd meets Gorky Park

Posted by Guscha On 2011/9/15 18:48:32
Howard, I believe that international proprietary rights and patent protection are wide areas with legal limbo. Almost three years ago Don (portlandon) posted a LIFE-pic that showed a Chaika that occupied the center stage in the Soviet National Exhibition on display at New York Coliseum in 1959. Ike has been one of its visitors (photo attached). The show was intended to prepare for the state visit of Nikita Khrushchev to the USA, here holding his first banana. Although without detailed knowledge in patent law I have certain difficulties to believe that the Soviets had an interest to introduce themselve as copycats.

GTO, after reading your post and especially in trying to live up to Howard's premature praise I made an effort to buy a copy of the mentioned SIA issue to deliver an in-depth coverage of its substance but unfortunately failed so far. Vendors, located in the US often restrict their ebay offer to national shipment. Well, I will try it harder and confirm for today the import of the two 56 Packards (Patrician and Caribbean). The deal has been executed by the Central Automobile and Engine Research Institute (NAMI, later NATI), a complex of buildings and facilities situated in the North-East of Moscow that occupies 16,5 hectares. The procurement was made in close cooperation with Rospatent, the Soviet patent office! With a probability bordering on certainty, no, as a matter of fact the Soviet copy-ism has been a systematic process with central governance like everything else of importance in CCCP.
Both cars survived the tests at the NAMI proving grounds and were later given to company ZIL but all Soviet vehicle builders benefitted from the results and insights of NAMI - one reason for the similarities of ZIL and Chaika.



[picture source: LIFE]


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