Comprehensive information about Rospatent's activities in 2025 and future plans is available in its Annual Report. Its summary version for 2025 is available in English (Summary). The full version of the Annual Report is currently available in Russian only. The English version will be published on the Rospatent website in due course.
The goals, objectives and plans of Rospatent are published in Russian in the "Plans" section on its official website (in Russian). For information on the main areas of patent activity in 2025, see pages 6-13 of the Summary. News about the IP Office's activities is available in English.
Other useful web pages:
New projects launched or resumed this year in the context of the policies and plans mentioned above, short description: aims, partners, tasks
During implementation of the new information infrastructure, modern approaches and technologies were used, unifying Rospatent's operational processes. Data exchange within the infrastructure is based on a unified data model that complies with international standards. System integration was ensured through a common integration bus, allowing for future platform development. Capability for software integration with Rospatent's public services was provided.
One of the 2025 activities related to the patent information was the addition of missing documents to the State Patent Collection in PatSearch and Open Registers. The work started in mid-2018 and is still ongoing. In 2025, as part of the aforementioned project, 9.7 thousand patent documents from the retro archive were restored on an electronic medium.
Statistics: changes in terms of application filings and grants with respect to previous year; trends or areas experiencing rapid changes
Inventions
The total number of patent applications for inventions filed in the Russian Federation in 2025 decreased compared to 2024 (-0.76%). The decrease was observed for non-resident applicants (-9.53%), while the number of applications filed by resident applicants increased (+1.35%).
At the same time, the total number of patents granted also decreased (-0.91%). The decrease was driven by non-resident rights holders (-19.63%), while the number of patents granted to resident applicants increased (+5.25%).
2024 | 2025 | 2025 compared to 2024 (%) | |
Patent applications for inventions | 26 698 | 26 494 | 99.24 |
- filed by resident applicants | 21 502 | 21 793 | 101.35 |
- filed by non-resident applicants | 5 196 | 4 701 | 90.47 |
Patents granted for inventions | 21 608 | 21 411 | 99.09 |
- to resident rights holders | 16 258 | 17 111 | 105.25 |
- to non-resident rights holders | 5 350 | 4 300 | 80.37 |
In 2025, patents for inventions were distributed across IPC sections as follows:
IPC Section | Patents for inventions | ||
Resident | Non-resident | Total | |
A | 4 658 | 1 359 | 6 017 |
B | 2 458 | 536 | 2 994 |
C | 2 612 | 1 130 | 3 742 |
D | 75 | 56 | 131 |
E | 1 168 | 92 | 1 260 |
F | 1 690 | 168 | 1 858 |
G | 3 108 | 385 | 3 493 |
H | 1 342 | 574 | 1 916 |
Total | 17 111 | 4 300 | 21 411 |
IPC Section A "Human Necessities" was the leader among both resident (4,658 patents) and non-resident applicants (1,359 patents). The least popular section among both categories remains IPC Section D "Textiles, Paper" (75 and 56 patents, respectively).
Utility Models
In 2025, a decline in utility model applications was observed. The number of applications filed decreased by 3.26%, with the decline being registered for both resident (by 3.29%) and non-resident (by 1.1%) applicants. Meanwhile, the total number of patents granted grew by 8.65%.
2024 | 2025 | 2025 compared to 2024 (%) | |
Patent applications for utility models | 13 637 | 13 192 | 96.74 |
- filed by resident applicants | 13 455 | 13 012 | 96.71 |
- filed by non-resident applicants | 182 | 180 | 98.90 |
Patents granted for utility models | 8 532 | 9 270 | 108.65 |
- to resident rights holders | 8 393 | 9 144 | 108.95 |
- to non-resident rights holders | 139 | 126 | 90.65 |
In 2025, utility model patents (certificates) were distributed across IPC sections as follows:
IPC Section | 2024 | 2025 |
A | 1 624 | 2 286 |
B | 3 558 | 3 024 |
C | 123 | 153 |
D | 44 | 34 |
E | 714 | 841 |
F | 1 019 | 1 269 |
G | 792 | 916 |
H | 658 | 747 |
Total | 8 532 | 9 270 |
The leading IPC section in 2025 is Section B, "Transportation; Mechanical Engineering" (3,024 patents). The least in-demand, as in 2024, remains Section D, "Textiles; Paper" (34 patents).
The following Rospatent web pages provide information on filing applications:
Availability of the application dossier in electronic form
Information regarding documents contained in the electronic dossiers of patent applications is posted in the "Open Registers" section of the FIPS website (in Russian).
Users of the FIPS website can access information about published applications and patent registrations in the "Official Publications" section.
Matters concerning classification
Classification and reclassification activities; classification systems used, e.g., International Patent Classification (IPC); matters concerning indexing of patent information: Classifications
In 2025, Rospatent continued to participate in the improvement of the IPC. The Office's activities included the following:
Use of electronic classification systems and pre-defined terms of the classification applied
Complete information about classification services is available here (in Russian).
Matters concerning processing of different types of patent documents
Rospatent participates in the regulatory and methodological settlement of issues related to examination of applications and the publication of corresponding information. In addition, information obtained through the IP Office's involvement in the Standing Committee on the Law of Patents is widely used.
Main types of publications in the field of patent information
The following Rospatent web pages provide information concerning Office publications:
Official Gazettes: main types of announcements, frequency of publication, medium (on paper, on CDs, online - URL), etc.
In 2025, the following types of notifications on national patent registrations were published. The forms of notifications published in the Rospatent Official Gazette "Inventions and Utility Models" comply with WIPO Standard ST.17.
The following web pages of the Office's website provide access to online publications:
From this page, users can access the following resources via the appropriate links:
Information products (coverage, medium, etc.) available to examiners, including external documentation and databases
During the reporting year, examiners primarily gained access to patent information through the in-house search systems, PatSearch and Rospatent Search Platform. When the information contained in these search systems was insufficient, examiners used freely available Internet patent databases (Espacenet, PATENTSCOPE, EAPATIS, and other national patent offices' databases).
Additionally, examiners performed searches in any source freely available on the Internet. For searches of nucleotide and amino acid sequences, our examiners used freely available databases on the NCBI PubMed website: MEDLINE, Protein, Nucleotide BLAST databases, and EMBL-EBI BLAST databases by the European Bioinformatics Institute [GB].
Examiners also had access to:
When necessary, examiners performed searches in the STNext databases for chemical and other specialized searches. In 2025, 412 applications were searched in STNext.
Examiners in 2025 also had access to:
Examiners have access to non-patent literature from the collections of the 8 largest specialized libraries in Moscow, including both printed publications and electronic resources, through the inter-library exchange system and the electronic document delivery system.
The following web pages of the Office's website provide access to online publications:
Information products and services available to external users
The FIPS website provides three sources of free information on inventions and utility models:
Since 2024, experts and external users have been able to work with the new Rospatent Search Platform, which contains patent information in both English and Russian. Search engines and databases with free access are provided to external users at the All-Russian Patent and Technical Library of FIPS (in Russian).
Access to information products and services:
Rospatent provides the following resources:
External users can access databases containing information on patents of the Russian Federation, foreign countries and international organizations free of charge in the electronic resources room of the All-Russian Patent and Technical Library of FIPS.
Legal status information
Information about legal status is published on the FIPS website in the "Open Registers" section and in Rospatent's Official Gazette "Inventions and Utility Models".
Specific software tools supporting business procedures within the Office: general description, characteristics, advantages, possible improvements
In 2025, Rospatent continued to operate nine state information systems and five information systems. The services provided are client-centred. The technologies applied during the development of these systems have made it possible to:
Hardware used to support business processes of the Office
The Office's technical infrastructure includes:
Server equipment:
Workstations:
Communication Equipment:
Software:
Internal databases: coverage, updates, interlinks with external sources
The search arrays of the internal search system include patent documents from Russia and the USSR, patent documentation from CIS countries, and documents from foreign countries included in the PCT minimum documentation. The system supports searching for non-patent literature on the website of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research Electronic Library. Additionally, all examiners have access to all free search systems of foreign patent offices.
In 2025, the Rospatent Search Platform was updated with the necessary data on published applications and registered patents to support comprehensive patent searches.
Application processing -- applications for inventions and utility models are accepted through:
International data exchange:
Additional technical specifications:
Administrative management electronic systems (register, legal status, statistics, and administrative support)
System capabilities include:
Applications for inventions and utility models are received for examination through personal accounts of electronic services available on the Office's website and the Unified Portal of State Services. Registration of applications is carried out in a unified system for registering applications and incoming correspondence, with data stored in a unified data storage. Examination of application materials is conducted in the electronic document management system.
The information system for converting documents from traditional to digital formats prepares documents in modern formats for subsequent formation of electronic application dossiers and processing during provision of state services. The unified document storage ensures preservation of documents and structured data in WIPO ST.96 Standard format as part of state service provision.
Rospatent's Library Services
Key resources include:
Publications and Information Resources
Rospatent provides various informational materials related to patent procedures:
Cooperation and Partnership Programs
Key initiatives include:
Education and Training Programs
In 2025, Rospatent conducted 16 thematic webinars for applicants and business representatives on patent-related topics. Webinar recordings are available on the FIPS website (in Russian). Furthermore, Rospatent, together with WIPO, organized and conducted 4 webinars with the participation of FGIS specialists to support users regarding access to patent information and its effective use: "Information Resources for Inventive Activities"; "New Search Capabilities for Intellectual Property Objects on the Rospatent Digital Platform"; "Evaluating Partnership Opportunities through the Lens of Intellectual Property"; "The Electronic Library as a Single Access Point to Patent Information". In 2025, a total of 2 785 webinar views were registered.
The FIPS Scientific and Educational Center (SEC) is a national competence center for the organization of education and outreach in the field of intellectual property. It organizes a large number of educational and awareness-raising events aimed at disseminating up-to-date knowledge in this area. Among the most popular programs are "Patent Law", "Patent Search", "Preparation and Examination of Applications for Intellectual Property Rights", "Patent Analytics", "Certified Professional in Technology Transfer", and others. Within the framework of these programs, participants receive information on Russian and foreign procedures for filing applications for inventions, trademarks, industrial designs, and other types of intellectual property, as well as on the principles of conducting patent searches, legal protection, and commercialization of results of intellectual activity. Educational programs and awareness-raising events are conducted by the best specialists of the Rospatent system: heads of examiner departments, state IP experts, practitioners, patent attorneys and leading lawyers.
In 2025, the total number of specialists trained across all types of programs and within the framework of scientific and educational events in the format of educational programs amounted to 10,958 persons (in 2024 -- 8,635 people, an increase of more than 20%). In particular, three cohorts of future state patent experts were trained, with 706 individuals enrolled on a tuition-free basis at the expense of FIPS. Training is conducted in both in-person and remote formats, ensuring access to current knowledge for specialists from all regions of Russia. The SEC provides training for state IP experts to improve their proficiency in English. In 2025, 32 individuals were trained on a tuition-free basis.
Other Outreach Activities
Rospatent continues to expand its educational outreach through:
During 2025, its Project Office conducted the following business simulation games:
Within the framework of international cooperation on patent information exchange, Rospatent systematically places official bulletins containing patent information on its dedicated FTP server. This digital repository is made accessible through secure login credentials to the intellectual property offices of foreign countries and international organizations specializing in intellectual property matters. Currently, Rospatent exchanges patent information with 50 countries and 5 international organizations. As part of this cooperation, FIPS publishes Russian patent documentation on its FTP-server and provides access to the patent offices of 47 foreign countries and 4 international organizations using login credentials.
In 2025, as part of the international exchange of patent information, the State Patent Collection was supplemented with 4 187 261 document copies. 293 copies of patent forms from 4 countries were included in the State Patent Fund: 16 paper bulletins; 9 bulletins on optical disks and 268 bulletins downloaded from the foreign patent offices websites. Acting as a Receiving Office, Rospatent transferred 826 registered copies of international applications and 576 certified copies of priority applications to WIPO electronically by means of PCT-EDI, without sending paper copies. 698 international search reports and written notes prepared by Rospatent, acting as an International Searching Authority, were transferred to WIPO electronically by means of PCT-EDI. Acting as International Preliminary Examining Authority under PCT, Rospatent transferred 10 of the international preliminary examination reports to WIPO electronically by means of ePCT.
Participation in International and Regional Activities and Projects Related to Patent Information
As part of its participation in international and regional activities and projects relating to patent information, representatives of Rospatent took part in various events.
Assistance to Developing Countries
An Agreement on Patent Search and Examination of Patent Applications of Developing Countries and an Agreement on Search for Prior Art in Developing Countries (concluded on September 28, 1988 in Geneva, Switzerland). Rospatent collaborates with WIPO's International Bureau to support developing countries. However, in 2025, Rospatent did not receive any requests for such assistance.
WIPO Standard ST.1: Recommendation concerning the minimum data elements required to uniquely identify a patent document
Fully implemented
WIPO Standard ST.2: Standard manner for designating calendar dates by using the Gregorian calendar
Fully implemented
WIPO Standard ST.3: Recommended standard on two-letter codes for the representation of states, other entities and intergovernmental organizations
Fully implemented
WIPO Standard ST.6: Recommendation for the numbering of published patent documents
Fully implemented
WIPO Standard ST.8: Standard recording of international patent classification (IPC) symbols on machine-readable records
Fully implemented
WIPO Standard ST.9: Recommendation concerning bibliographic data on and relating to patents and SPCs
Fully implemented
WIPO Standard ST.10: Published patent documents
Fully implemented
WIPO Standard ST.10/A: Format (margins, size) of patent documents
Fully implemented
WIPO Standard ST.10/B: Layout of bibliographic data components
Fully implemented
WIPO Standard ST.10/C: Presentation of bibliographic data components
Fully implemented
WIPO Standard ST.10/D: Guidelines on physical characteristics of patent documents particularly relevant to reproducibility and legibility of such documents
Fully implemented
WIPO Standard ST.11: Recommendation on the minimum of indexes to be inserted in patent gazettes or published in association with patent gazettes
Fully implemented
WIPO Standard ST.12: Guidelines for the preparation of abstracts of patent documents
Fully implemented
WIPO Standard ST.12/A: General guidelines for the preparation of abstracts of patent documents
Fully implemented
WIPO Standard ST.12/B: Guidelines for the preparation of categorized patent abstract
Fully implemented
WIPO Standard ST.12/C: Guidelines for the physical characteristics of separately published abstracts in selective dissemination of information (SDI) presented in the form of card files
Fully implemented
WIPO Standard ST.13: Recommendation for the numbering of applications for industrial property rights (IPRs)
Fully implemented
WIPO Standard ST.14: Recommendation for the inclusion of references cited in patent documents
Fully implemented
WIPO Standard ST.15: Guidelines for the wording of titles of inventions in patent documents
Fully implemented
WIPO Standard ST.16: Recommended standard code for the identification of different kinds of patent documents
Fully implemented
WIPO Standard ST.17: Recommendation for the coding of headings of announcements made in official gazettes
Fully implemented
WIPO Standard ST.18: Recommendation concerning patent gazettes and other patent announcement journals
Fully implemented
WIPO Standard ST.19: Recommendation for the publication of indexes issued yearly/half-yearly/quarterly by industrial property offices
Fully implemented
WIPO Standard ST.20: Recommendations for the preparation of name indexes to patent documents
Fully implemented
WIPO Standard ST.21: Recommendation concerning the reduction of volume of priority documents as filed with industrial property offices
Fully implemented
WIPO Standard ST.22: Recommendation for the authoring of patent applications for the purpose of facilitating optical character recognition (OCR)
Fully implemented
WIPO Standard ST.25: Standard for the presentation of nucleotide and amino acid sequence listings in patent applications
Fully implemented
WIPO Standard ST.26: Recommended standard for the presentation of nucleotide and amino acid sequence listings using XML (extensible markup language)
Fully implemented
WIPO Standard ST.27: Recommendation for the exchange of patent legal status data
Partially implemented
Rospatent uses another event codes.
WIPO Standard ST.31: Recommended standard coded character sets for the exchange of machine-readable records of patent documents
Fully implemented
WIPO Standard ST.32: Recommendation for the markup of patent documents using SGML (standard generalized markup language)
Fully implemented
WIPO Standard ST.33: Recommended standard format for data exchange of facsimile information of patent documents
Fully implemented
WIPO Standard ST.34: Recommendation concerning the recording of application numbers in electronic form for the exchange of bibliographic data
Fully implemented
WIPO Standard ST.35: Recommended standard format for data exchange of mixed-mode published patent document information on reel-to-reel and IBM 3480/90 cartridge tapes
Fully implemented
WIPO Standard ST.36: Recommendation for the processing of patent information using XML (extensible markup language)
Fully implemented
WIPO Standard ST.37: Recommendation for an authority file of published patent documents
Fully implemented
WIPO Standard ST.40: Recommendation concerning making facsimile images of patent documents available on CD-ROM
Fully implemented
WIPO Standard ST.50: Guidelines for issuing corrections, alterations and supplements relating to patent information
Fully implemented
WIPO Standard ST.90: Recommendation for processing and communicating intellectual property data using web APIs (Application Programming Interfaces)
Planning to implement.
Rospatent is planning to use the recommendations of this standard when developing new and updating existing information systems.
WIPO Standard ST.91: Recommendations on digital three-dimensional (3D) models and 3D images
Fully implemented
WIPO Standard ST.92: Recommendations on the data package format for the electronic exchange of priority documents
Planning to implement after joining WIPO DAS
WIPO Standard ST.96: Recommendation for the processing of intellectual property information using XML (extensible markup language)
Fully implemented
WIPO Standard ST.97: Recommendation for processing of intellectual property data using JSON
On assessment phase
1.Classification is allotting one or more classification symbols (e.g., IPC symbols) to a patent application, either before or during search and examination, which symbols are then published with the patent application.
2. Preclassification is allotting an initial broad classification symbol (e.g., IPC class or subclass, or administrative unit) to a patent application, using human or automated means for internal administrative purposes (e.g., routing an application to the appropriate examiner). Usually preclassification is applied by the administration of an office.
3. Reclassification is the reconsideration and usually the replacement of one or more previously allotted classification symbols to a patent document, following a revision and the entry into force of a new version of the Classification system (e.g., the IPC). The new symbols are available on patent databases.
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