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Inventions and utility models

The patent attorneys of "FEDOTOV & PARTNERS" counsel clients on a broad spectrum of issues in order to secure the most effective and reliable patent protection and implement commercially meaningful and cost effective IP strategies

We prepare documents, including inventions specifications and utility model specifications, necessary for submitting applications for a patent. We prosecute applications before the Russian Patent Office and in other countries in the fields of mechanics, electronics and chemistry, as well as computers, microelectronics, telecommunications, lasers, and optics.

Basic information on Patents in Russia

Your technical solution can be protected by a Patent for Invention as well as by a Utility Model Patent.

To obtain a Patent for Invention the claimed solution has to meet the following criteria: global novelty, inventive step level and industrial applicability.

Patenting a Utility Model is a way to protect devices which are expected to meet the requirement of local novelty (within the territory to be covered by the Patent) and industrial applicability.

The pre-patenting procedure includes the following:

- performing a preliminary patent search in order to establish the invention's or utility model's compliance with the criteria outlined hereinabove and track the closest analogues;

- drafting Claims, Description and Abstract of the invention/utility model.

A patent is issued after the completion of an examination procedure consisting of a formal and a substantive stage. Whenever the Russian Patent Office carries out patenting of a Utility Model, the only formal examination is carried out.

The term of protection is 20 years for inventions (can be prolonged for 5 years in case of inventions related to medicines) and 10 years for utility models (can be prolonged for 3 years) beginning with the date of filing.

If you have any questions concerning patent protection and defense in Russia please write us info@fedotov-ip.ru