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To improve the awareness of researchers about the main opportunities and requirements for preparation and filing of applications for inventions and utility models, obtaining patents for these intellectual property objects, as well as registration of computer software programmes or databases, we offer a number of useful links to the electronic resources of Rospatent:
- Civil Code of the Russian Federation Part IV, Chapter 72 (The Patent Law);
- Administrative procedure for provision by the Federal Service for Intellectual Property of the state service on state registration of an invention and issue of a patent for an invention, its duplicate;
- Rules for the execution, filing and review of documents, which are the basis for legally binding actions on state registration of inventions, and their forms;
- Requirements to the documents of the application for the issue of a patent for invention;
- Administrative procedure for provision by the Federal Service for Intellectual Property of the state service on state registration of a utility model and issue of a patent for a utility model, its duplicate;
- Rules for the execution, filing and review of documents, that are the basis for legally binding actions on the state registration of utility models and their form;
- Requirements to the documents of the application for the issue of a patent for a utility model;
- Appendices to the regulations on patent and other fees, as amended on 06.10.2017:
- Appendix No. 1 "List of legally binding actions related to a patent for an invention, utility model, industrial design with state registration of a trademark and a service mark, with state registration and granting of the exclusive right to the appellation of origin of goods, as well as with state registration of the transfer of exclusive rights to other persons and agreements on the disposal of these rights, for the performance of which patent and other fees are charged";
- Appendix No.2 "The list of legally binding actions related to a patent for an invention, utility model, industrial design, state registration of a trademark and service mark, with state registration and granting of the exclusive right to the appellation of origin of goods, as well as with state registration of alienation of the exclusive right to a result of intellectual activity or identifications, pledge of the exclusive right, granting the right to use such a result or identifications under a contract, transfer of the exclusive right to such result or identifications without a contract, for the fulfilment of which fees are charged at a reduced rate";
- Civil code of the Russian Federation Part IV, Chapter 70 (Copyright), Chapter 71 (Rights related to copyright) or the purposes of state registration of computer software programmes or databases;
- Tax Code of the Russian Federation (Part Two) Chapter 25.3 – for information on payment of the state fee for registration of computer software programmes or databases;
- Administrative procedure for the provision by the Federal Service for Intellectual Property of the state service of the state registration of a computer software programme or database and the issuance of certificates of state registration of a computer software programme or database and their duplicates;
- Rules for the execution of an application for the state registration of a computer software programme or database;
- Rules for drawing up documents that are the basis for legally binding actions on the state registration of a programme for computer software programs or a database, and their forms.
Any author of an application for an invention, utility model and other intellectual property items after filing an application to the patent office can quickly check the status of its proceedings, results of expertise - decision on granting a patent or sending other correspondence to his address from Open Registers of the Federal Institute for Industrial Property , by entering the number of the appropriate application. Any person may also do so if he or she knows the application number. However, full access to the text of the application, the list of authors and the name of the patent owner for third parties is possible only after the patent has been registered and officially published. Similar actions can be performed using the number of the state registration of the patent, if it has already taken place.