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The activities were focused on the improvement of functional range of personal accounts for electronic services and information user support, including answers for questions, incoming through the technical support service. There were conducted relevant regular meetings on how to work with digital services, to update the information, published within the “Application Filing” section at Federal Institute of Industrial Property (FIPS) webpage https://new.fips.ru/podacha-zayavki/.
The above-mentioned activities allowed in 2020 to achieve the indicator of electronic filing of applications for inventions of more than 58% of the total volume of applications received under the national review procedure.
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- monitoring of patenting in the field of technological interests of the customer;
- patent research in compliance with State Standard of the Russian Federation (GOST);
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- worldwide technology scouting;
- competitive analysis of the companies from a given list of companies;
- technology due diligence;
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- study of patenting particularities, barriers and windows of opportunity for non-residents in selected countries;
- research of combined patent portfolios in mergers and acquisitions of companies.
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- ESR of UM – 198’670 patents.
During 2020, work was carried out on populating data; after formal verification for the purpose, completeness, and compliance with specifications on the website, some errors were identified. After verifying downloaded data during 2020, errors were detected in the arrays of Australia, China, the Republic of Korea, Ukraine, Japan, Canada (49,651 documents in total). All errors were corrected by re-uploading the data. In the framework of the previously signed agreements with foreign offices on data exchange and other written agreements, the work is ongoing to ensure the quality and completeness of the uploading to the system. To provide the completeness and quality of provisioning of the State Patent Collection on electronic carrier, the PatSearch system and Open registries on the FIPS website, as well as the preparation of the in-office list of patent documents published by Rospatent (WIPO Circular C.CWS 111-03) in 2020, the All-Russian Patent and Technical Library of the Federal Institute og of Industrial Property (FIPS Library) carried out work on the analysis and filling of gaps. 16,200 descriptions of inventions to authorship certificates and patents of the USSR were revealed and prepared for digitization. The work on the project was continued to include into the National Electronic Library (NEL, http://нэб.рф) national patent documentation from the State Patent Collection (SPC), which allowed users to get a new way of access to patent information not only for patent searches but also to solve scientific and educational issues. To achieve the goals set in the “Information Society Development Strategy in the Russian Federation for 2017–2030”, access to the national patent documentation of the SPC is provided through the NEL. Total 2.5 million patent documents from 1924 to 2020 were included into the NEL, which constitutes 57,3 % of the total array of documents in the NEL. It's possible to enter the NEL through the FIPS website, and access to information using mobile applications is organized through the NEL platform. In order to popularize the documents of the State Patent Fund among the general public, a thematic collection of patent documents of the USSR registered during the Great Patriotic War was prepared and posted in the National Electronic Library: "Inventions of Victory". To expand access channels to patent information, an array of national patent documents is kept available in the Scientific Electronic Library eLIBRARY.RU, the largest Russian information and analytical portal in the field of science, technology, medicine and education, as well as at the Yandex. Patents service as the part of the new joint project of Rospatent and Yandex launched in March 2019.During 2020 work was carried out on updating and supplementing the materials posted on the FIPS website, updating was carried out quarterly.
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In 2020, the number of requests for the provision of public services (hereinafter referred to as requests) for registering applications for utility models filed with Rospatent electronically increased by 12.42% compared to 2019.The list of measures aimed at increasing applicants’ interest in applying electronically for the provision of government services is as follows:
1. Expanding the functionality of electronic interaction services. In 2020 a new version of the Registrar AWS (Automated Work Station), which provides a comfortable environment for filing and managing applications, was made available to users of the service.
2. Conducting monthly thematic meetings for FIPS specialists with users of electronic filing services for applications for inventions and utility models, applicants and representatives thereof, as well as all those wishing to participate in the process of electronic interaction with Rospatent and FIPS when submitting and reviewing applications.
3. Posting of educational video materials and programs on the FIPS website. Users become more interested in e-filing mechanisms and digital interaction, this brings the increased number of views under tutorial videos, posted within the “Application filing” section, that exceeded 45’000 views.
4. The FIPS technical support service is conducting a review of requests from users of electronic services. In 2020, more 5’000 requests were considered.
5. Any interested person may obtain the necessary knowledge and practical experience in preparing documentation electronically for applications for the grant of a patent for an invention or utility model. One-to-one training is conducted in the computer room of the patent library, and is free-of-charge.
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Data relating to the filing of applications and the grant of Russian Federation invention patents for 2019-2020 are presented in Table 1.
Table 1
| 2019 | 2020 | % 2020 to 2019 |
Total number of invention applications filed, including: | 35511 | 34984 | 98,52 |
- by Russian applicants | 23337 | 23759 | 101,81 |
- by foreign applicants | 12174 | 11225 | 92,20 |
Total number of patents granted, including: | 34008 | 28788 | 84,65 |
- to Russian applicants | 20113 | 17181 | 85,42 |
- to foreign applicants | 13895 | 11607 | 83,53 |
As can be seen from table 1, in 2020 compared to 2019 there was a decrease in the number of applications filed (by 1.48%), as well as a decrease in the number of patents granted (by 15.35%).
The invention patents granted in 2020 were distributed according to the IPC sections as follows:
Table 2
IPC Section | Invention patents | ||
Russian | Foreign | Total | |
A | 4386 | 2687 | 7073 |
B | 2748 | 2237 | 4985 |
C | 2325 | 2124 | 4449 |
D | 63 | 142 | 205 |
E | 1256 | 494 | 1750 |
F | 1797 | 1091 | 2888 |
G | 3130 | 1313 | 4443 |
H | 1476 | 1519 | 2995 |
Total | 17181 | 11607 | 28788 |
The largest number of patents for inventions granted in 2020 was to Russian applicants for Section A of the International Patent Classification (IPC) – HUMAN NECESSITIES, the first place among foreign applicants is also held by section A.
The least popular Section among Russian and foreign applicants alike remains Section D – Textiles and Paper. The number of patents granted for this Section in 2020 amounted to less than 1 per cent of the overall number of patents granted for inventions.
Utility models
Тable 3
2019 | 2020 | % 2020 to 2019 | |
Total number of utility-model applications filed, including: | 10136 | 9195 | 90,72 |
- by Russian applicants | 9717 | 8859 | 91,17 |
- by foreign applicants | 419 | 336 | 80,19 |
Total number of patents granted, including: | 8848 | 6748 | 76,27 |
- to Russian applicants | 8370 | 6502 | 77,68 |
- to foreign applicants | 478 | 246 | 51,46 |
In 2020, there was a decline in the number of applications for utility models. The number of applications decreased by 9.28%, while the decline was observed both for applications from domestic applicants (by 8.83%) and foreign (by 19.81%). The total number of granted patents also decreased (by 23.73%).
Data on the distribution of patents for utility models by IPC Section are presented below.
Тable 4
IPC Section | 2019 | 2020 |
A | 2067 | 1708 |
B | 2247 | 1647 |
C | 212 | 147 |
D | 37 | 30 |
E | 919 | 763 |
F | 1394 | 1002 |
G | 1120 | 835 |
H | 852 | 616 |
Total | 8848 | 6748 |
The leading IPC Section in 2019 remained Section A – Human Necessities. As in 2018, Section D – Textiles and Paper – continued to be the least in demand, with the lowest number of certificates granted.
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Table 5 contains data on the main types of Office publications in the field of patent information, carriers and also the frequency of publications.
Тable 5
Publication Title | Form of Publication | Frequency of Publication | |
Official publications of Rospatent on inventions and utility models | |||
Inventions and Utility Models Official Gazette, including the sections:
RF Invention Applications - (primary publication section) “Reports on information searches on applications for inventions of the Russian Federation” RF Invention Patents - (secondary publication section) “Supplementary patents for inventions of the Russian Federation” RF Utility Model Patents - (primary publication section) USSR authors’ certificates and patents for previously unpublished inventions (Information on de-classified inventions previously recognized as secret by the State, for which USSR copyright certificates for secret inventions were issued(1) and Information on copyright certificates and USSR invention patents not previously published (2))
RF Invention Patents for previously unpublished inventions Notifications
Republications
Court decisions on the infringement of patent owners’ rights | Bibliographic data and claims. Reports are published on information searches on applications for inventions, data for which is published. Two options for the presentation of information: 1. On the title page -bibliographic data and claims; 2. Full descriptions for patents in the form of bibliographic data, abstract of a description, text of a description, drawing(s), claims. Abstracts of invention descriptions translated into English. Data is published on granting supplementary patent for invention relating to such product as medicine, pesticide or agrochemical for use of which permission is granted. Data composition: bibliographic data; claim for which validity period is extended. Two options for the presentation of information: 1. On the title page -bibliographic data and claims; 2. Full descriptions for patents in the form of bibliographic data, abstract of a description, text of a description, drawing(s) and claims. Two options for the presentation of information: 1. On the title page -bibliographic data and claims. Full descriptions for patents in the form of bibliographic data, abstract of a description, text of a description, drawing(s), claims. Abstracts of invention descriptions translated into English. 2. Bibliographic data and claims. Two options for the presentation of information: 1. On the title page -bibliographic data and claims. 2. Full descriptions for patents in the form of bibliographic data, abstract of a description, text of a description, drawing(s), claims. Abstracts of invention descriptions translated into English. (the data are equivalent to those in RF Invention Patents) Information is published on the insertion of amendments into published information on invention applications, or on amendments recorded in the State Registers of Inventions and Utility Models of the Russian Federation. Corrected descriptions of inventions for RF patents and corrected descriptions of utility models for RF patents are published. Court decisions on infringement of patent owners’ rights (at the request of a patent owner) | Three times per month | |
Annual Rospatent Activity Report for 2020 on website: https://rospatent.gov.ru/ru/about/reports https://rospatent.gov.ru/content/uploadfiles/otchet-2020-ru.pdf https://rospatent.gov.ru/content/uploadfiles/otchet-2020-en.pdf" | Structure and composition of data determined by Rospatent | Once per year | |
During 2020, the Inventions and Utility Models Official Gazette has been posted on the website of the Federal State Budgetary Institution, the Federal Institute of Industrial Property (FIPS), which is subordinate to Rospatent, in the Official Publications section, and is freely available, constituting a functional and comprehensive information source. The ISSN number is 2313-7436.
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- Regulations on the official publications of the Federal Service for Intellectual Property: "https://www.fips.ru/documents/npa-rf/prikazy-rospatenta/Pologenie_105.pdf";
- Official Publications section: "https://www.fips.ru/publication-web/"
- Catalog of Publications and Databases in the Patent Information Products section: "https://www.fips.ru/vse-uslugi/patentno-informatsionnye-produkty/".
Official Gazettes: main types of announcements, frequency of publication, medium (on paper, on CDs, online - URL), etc.
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The forms of notifications on inventions and utility models published in the Rospatent Official Gazette, Inventions and Utility Models, are presented in Table 6:
Table 6
Notifications containing messages about changes and corrections in inventions and utility models state registration data |
PD4A/PD9K Name, surname, first name, patronymic of the patent owner |
ТС4A/TC9K Author(s) data change |
ТЕ4A/TE9K Mailing address change |
Notifications containing messages about invention / utility model patent termination or renewal |
MZ4A/MZ9K Invention / utility model (group of inventions / utility models) patent early termination based on patent owner’s declaration |
ММ4А/MM9K Рatent early termination due to patent maintenance fee unpaid at term |
МK4A/MK9K Invention / utility model (group of inventions / utility models) patent termination upon expiration |
MG4A/MG9K Invention / utility model (group of inventions / utility models) patent termination due to granting patent for an identical object |
NF4A/NF9K Patent renewal |
MF4A/MF9K Patent termination due to its full invalidity recognition |
MF4A/MF9K Patent termination due to its partial invalidity recognition |
NG4A/NG9K Granting new patent due to partial invalidity recognition of a patent granted earlier |
Notifications containing messages about invention patent term extension, granting patent copy |
ND4A Invention (group of inventions) patent term extension based on patent owner’s declaration |
RH4A/RH9K Granting patent copy |
RH4F Granting copy of USSR author’s certificate or patent for invention |
ND4A Exclusive rights term extension for an invention related to such a product as medicine, pesticide or agrochemical for use of which permission is granted. Granting supplementary patent for invention (according paragraph 2 of Article 1363 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation) |
Notifications relating to state registration of contract exclusive rights for invention / utility model, to exclusive rights for invention / utility model transfer without contract |
PC4A/PC9K State registration of exclusive rights alienation under contract |
PC4A/PC9K State registration of exclusive rights transfer without contract |
QB4A/QB9K State registration of exclusive right of use granting under contract |
QB4A/QB9K State registration of the exclusive rights pledge (subsequent pledge) under contract |
QZ4A/QZ9K State registration of changes relating to exclusive rights alienation under contract |
QZ4A/QZ9K State registration of changes relating to granting right of use under contract |
QZ4A/QZ9K State registration of contract changes |
QZ4A/QZ9K State registration of changes relating to the exclusive rights pledge (subsequent pledge) under contract |
QC4A/QC9K State registration of right of use termination |
QC4A/QC9K State registration of contract termination |
QC4A/QC9K State registration of the exclusive rights pledge (subsequent pledge) termination under contract |
QA4A/QA9K Open license registration |
QZ4A/QZ9K Registration of petition for revocation of open license declaration |
Notifications containing other messages about registered inventions / utility models |
ТK4A/TK9K Correction of obvious and technical errors in entries of the State Register of Inventions / Utility Models of Russian Federation and/or in bulletin publications |
TK4A Amendments to data publications in English |
RZ4A/RZ9K Other changes related to registered inventions / utility models |
TH4A/TH9K Patent for Invention / utility model disclosures reissue |
The addresses of web pages of the Office’s site providing access to online publications:
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Information on how to access and use resources – in the Information-Search System section, subsection subsection :
Instructions for Using an Internet resources FIPS: https://new.fips.ru/iiss/Инструкция по работе с информационными ресурсами.doc
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The rest were on the following topics: Conducting a Patent Search in the EPO DB Espacenet; "Conducting a patent search in the WIPO database" Patentscope "," State registration of databases, computer programs and integrated circuit topogrhapies topographies "; "Examination of industrial designs that are confusingly similar"; "Examination of inventions and utility models in the field of mechanics and electronics"; “Inventions in the field of genetic sequences. WIPO Standard 26. Relevant information".
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The FIPS Project Office released in 2020 the first professional educational program on patent analyticsin analytics in Russia, which has no analogs in the world. The 30hour modular program includes almost all the skills of the Project Office in the field of patent analytics and is accompanied by several tests (placement test and graduation test). Much attention is paid to the practical and independent work of the students: practical classes with students make about 2/3 of the total time on the course. At the end of the course, the student’s written papers are examined and defended.
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