MOSCOW, July 1 (RAPSI) - Russia’s Intellectual Property Court (IP Court) has submitted for reconsideration to the Moscow Commercial Court the claim filed by bankrupt Russian design bureau against Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) and Doosan Infracore over flight simulators software, RIA Novosti reported Monday.

In Soviet times The Penza Design Bureau was the leading enterprise on the local market which supplied airline companies with its flight simulators. In 1990s the bureau signed thee cooperation agreements with the South Korean companies which were interested in technologies. It provided investments while engineers of the Russian bureau worked on the simulators. Under the agreements, Doosan Infracore did not get exclusive rights to the technologies or software. However, without consent of the Russian bureau, KAI delivered 85 planes equipped with KT-1 simulators to the South Korean Air Force and 7 planes to the Indonesian Air Force.

Russian bureau filed a lawsuit with the Moscow Commercial Court in 2004.

In 2013, the claim was granted in part. The court held that the bureau was entitled to $49.7 mln in damages for unauthorized use of its technologies in SKorean flight simulators. An appeals court upheld the ruling in February.

The South Korean companies lodged an application with the IP Court which sent the case for reconsideration.