With the Berne Convention, copyright is effectively worldwide. Patents, however, are specific to a single country. If you want patent coverage for multiple countries, you need to file in each of them. (It's actually a little more complicated than this, see here for an overview).
The upshot is that the CIA, as a US organization, doesn't need to worry about Russian patents, unless they are manufacturing or exporting to Russia.
I think parent is a troll.
The Borland InterBase database server had a backdoor in place for 6 years! It wasn't until the product was open sourced that the backdoor was made public. See here for details.
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With the Berne Convention, copyright is effectively worldwide. Patents, however, are specific to a single country. If you want patent coverage for multiple countries, you need to file in each of them. (It's actually a little more complicated than this, see here for an overview). The upshot is that the CIA, as a US organization, doesn't need to worry about Russian patents, unless they are manufacturing or exporting to Russia. I think parent is a troll.
The Borland InterBase database server had a backdoor in place for 6 years! It wasn't until the product was open sourced that the backdoor was made public. See here for details.