He has graduated from the Moscow Steel & Alloys Institute (Russia) with a degree of the Metallurgical Engineer in 1983, a Ph.D. in Technical Sciences from Riga Polytechnic Institute in 1987 and D. Litt. from Fairfax University, Louisiana, USA in 2002. Yuri Bolotov is a registered patent & trademark attorney of the Republic of Kazakhstan since 1993. He got his JD at the Academic Law School under the National Research Institute of State & Legislation of the Kazakh Academy of Science in 1998, worked in the field of IP rights protection during 15 years and has written more than 50 articles on the subject.