Federal Service for Intellectual Property

Federal Service for
Intellectual Property
Федеральная служба по интеллектуальной собственности (Роспатент)
Emblem of the Federal Service for Intellectual Property
Agency overview
Formed9 March 2004; 20 years ago (9 March 2004)
HeadquartersBerezhkovskaya Naberezhnaya, 30/1, Moscow, Russia
Agency executive
  • Grigory Ivliyev[1]
Parent agencyMinistry of Economic Development
WebsiteRospatent.gov.ru
Russian Patent Certificate (with Unofficial English Translation)

The Federal Service for Intellectual Property[2] (commonly known as Rospatent; Russian: Федеральная служба по интеллектуальной собственности (Роспатент), romanized: Federalnaya sluzhba po intellektualnoi sobstvennosti) is a Russian governmental agency in charge of intellectual property. Its former name was "Federal Service for Intellectual Property, Patents and Trademarks (Rospatent)".[3]

In the former Soviet Union, Goskomizobretenie (Russian: Госкомизобретений), which stood for Gosudarstvennyi komitet po delam izobretenie i otkrytii, was the State Committee for Inventions and Discoveries. It maintained a registry of inventions and discoveries and gave out authors certificates and patents.

As of 1 August 2020, 476,905 national trademarks and 220,513 international trademarks were registered at the Russian Federal Service for Intellectual Property, and it issued 266,104 patents.[4]

References

  1. ^ "Grigory Ivliyev". Government of the Russian Federation. Retrieved 16 October 2020.
  2. ^ "Federal Service for Intellectual Property of the Russian Federation - The Russian Government". government.ru. Retrieved 2024-03-26.
  3. ^ RU Russian Federation (name of Office; fees), PCT Newsletter, November 2012, p. 4.
  4. ^ Statistics, Intellectual Property in Russia, August 1, 2020

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