Annual Technical Report on Patent Information Activities in 2025 submitted by Federal Service for Intellectual Property (Rospatent)

I. GENERAL OVERVIEW OF RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN PATENT INFORMATION ACTIVITIES CARRIED OUT BY THE OFFICE

• Outline of main policies and plans aimed at development of patent information activities and expected time frames for their realization

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:

• Patent legislation (in English)
• Legal information ("Inventions and Utility Models" and "Industrial Designs" sections, in Russian)
• Information Notices (in Russian)
• Annual Reports
• FIPS activities monitoring (in Russian)

New projects launched or resumed this year in the context of the policies and plans mentioned above, short description: aims, partners, tasks

Rospatent Search Platform

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%).

In 2025, patents for inventions were distributed across IPC sections as follows:

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%.

In 2025, utility model patents (certificates) were distributed across IPC sections as follows:

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).

II. SERVICES AND ACTIVITIES RELATED TO PATENT INFORMATION CARRIED OUT BY THE OFFICE

The following Rospatent web pages provide information on filing applications:

• Filing applications online – The IP Office website allows users to file an application for inventions and utility models online and to manage correspondence regarding such applications through their personal accounts (in Russian) (available also here)
• E-filing user documentation – Users of the Federal Institute of Industrial Property (FIPS) website can access user and technical documentation on how to set up and use an e-filing service for registering inventions and utility models, as well as electronic correspondence (in Russian)
• State registration of inventions – State registration of inventions and the issuance of patents therefor (in Russian)
• State registration of utility models – State registration of utility models and the issuance of patents therefor (in Russian)
• Access to application documents – Access to application documents and issuance of copies (in Russian)
• Document forms – Section "Forms of Documents" (in Russian)
• General filing information – "Filing Applications" section (in Russian)
• Fees
• Fee calculator (in Russian)
• FAQs –Frequently Asked Questions section (in Russian)

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:

• Completed the Russian-language IPC 2026 version incorporating all 1 615 changes
• Continues ongoing reclassification of national patent documents
• Maintains parallel CPC classification since 2016
• Internal preclassification system was launched and is being tested

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.

III. SOURCES OF PATENT INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE OFFICE

Main types of publications in the field of patent information

The following Rospatent web pages provide information concerning Office publications:

• Official Publications section
• Inventions and Utility Models section
• Patent Information Products section (in English)

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:

• Official Bulletins for Inventions and Utility Models in the "Official Publications" section
• Open Registers of Russian Patent Documents (in Russian)

From this page, users can access the following resources via the appropriate links:

• Register of Inventions of the Russian Federation
• Register of Utility Models of the Russian Federation
• Register of Applications for the Grant of a Russian Federation Invention Patent
• Register of Applications for the Grant of a Russian Federation Utility Model Patent

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:

• The National Electronic Library
• The Electronic Library of Dissertations of the Russian State Library
• Electronic Reading Room of the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library

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:

• Orbit Intelligence by Questel
• Springer Nature resources
• The Wiley Journals Database

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:

• IPC Classification
• Official Publications section

Information products and services available to external users

The FIPS website provides three sources of free information on inventions and utility models:

1. The "Official Publications" section, containing data from the Official Bulletin on Inventions and Utility Models (available from 2005 to present)
2. The "Open Registers" section containing:
• Invention registrations
• Utility model registrations
• Invention applications
• Utility model applications
3. An information retrieval system with data identical to those in the "Open Registers". An advanced search is available to users on a commercial basis

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:

• Subscription services for patent information products - Catalog of publications and databases (in Russian)
• Official Gazettes - Inventions and Utility Models
• Search tools - Information Retrieval System
• User support: Instructions on how to use the Rospatent resources and Technical support (in Russian)

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".

IV. ICT SUPPORT TO SERVICES AND ACTIVITIES RELATED TO PATENT INFORMATION CARRIED OUT BY THE OFFICE

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:

• Enhance full-scale search across Russian and international patent documentation repositories.
• Optimize the decision-making process during formal examinations (including fee accounting and the primary review of documentation submitted with an application) to determine the possibility of performing legally significant actions, thereby reducing the time burden on decision-making.
• Issue an electronic protective document and an extract from the register. The right holder has access to the electronic document for the duration of its validity and can submit such an electronic document to other authorities.
• Improve the quality of information search as part of the substantive examination process.
• Provide applicants with the ability to include 3D models in applications.
• Increase the effectiveness of managerial decisions through the formation of electronic data sets.
• Form electronic data sets of reference information, and improve the coordination of integration interaction, both between internal systems and between external federal executive bodies and international offices.
• Reduce the number of documents required from applicants to file a patent application electronically via the Unified Portal of State Services of the Russian Federation (Gosuslugi), by leveraging reference information databases available from both internal and external federal executive authorities.
• Reduce the timeframes for the formal examination of applications submitted via Gosuslugi by conducting automated service checks using reference information databases available from both internal and external federal executive authorities.

Hardware used to support business processes of the Office

The Office's technical infrastructure includes:

Server equipment:

• Fujitsu M10-4S server (96 GB RAM, 20 processors, 200 TB external memory)
• 41 HP DL380 servers (4 GB RAM, 2 processors, 300 GB external memory)
• 7 QTech servers (256 GB RAM, 2 processors, 2 TB external memory)
• 18 HP DL580 servers (16 GB RAM, 4 processors, 600 GB external memory)

Workstations:

• 1080 units from HP, IRBIS and Kraftway

Communication Equipment:

• Cisco 9500, Cisco 4507, Qtech 4530

Software:

• Operating systems: Solaris, Windows 2012 Server, Astra Linux operating systems

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:

• e-filing system on the Rospatent website
• Gosuslugi

International data exchange:

• Electronic exchange with WIPO is conducted using PCT-EDI and ePCT technology
• Compliance with WIPO ST.26, ST.36, ST.96 Standards

Additional technical specifications:

• The systems support all stages of patent examination and registration
• Integration with other IP office systems
• Regular updates to maintain compatibility with international standards
• Robust data backup and recovery procedures

Administrative management electronic systems (register, legal status, statistics, and administrative support)

System capabilities include:

• workflow management for inventions and utility models applications
• workflow for post-registration procedures (renewals, ownership changes, cancellations)

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.

V. PROMOTION ACTIVITIES AIMED TO SUPPORT USERS IN ACCESS AND EFFICIENT USE OF PATENT INFORMATION

Rospatent's Library Services

Key resources include:

• Online catalog
• Library services portal
• Website of the All-Russian Patent and Technical Library (in Russian)
• All-Russian Patent and Technical E-Library (in Russian)

Publications and Information Resources

Rospatent provides various informational materials related to patent procedures:

• Information Products of the All-Russian Patent and Technical Library (in Russian)
• E-Library (in Russian)
• Electronic Catalog of patent-legal and scientific-technical literature (in Russian)
• The Official Publications section provides daily updates on patent registrations in force
• Methodological recommendations on examination procedures (in Russian)

Cooperation and Partnership Programs

Key initiatives include:

• Intellectual Property for Young Researchers
• Inventors NEXT Program
• WIPO-Rospatent Technology and Innovation Support Centers (TISCs) Network

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.

SEC web-page

Other Outreach Activities

Rospatent continues to expand its educational outreach through:

• Specialized programs for universities and research institutions
• Collaboration with regional innovation centers
• Participation in international educational initiatives
• Development of new online learning resources
• Support programs for young researchers and inventors

During 2025, its Project Office conducted the following business simulation games:

• As part of the VII International Conference of Rospatent "IP ERA", on April 24, a business simulation game "The Formula for Innovation" was held. 
• The XVI International Scientific and Practical Forum "Days of Intellectual Property in the Northwestern Federal District", held in Saint Petersburg, conducted a business simulation game. 
• On September 17, another business simulation game "The Formula for Innovation" was held at the Patriot Expo venue as part of the International Technological Congress. 
• The same game was conducted for the corporate client PJSC "Gazpromneft" on September 19. 
• On December 9, 2025, a series of business simulation games, "Patent Scoring" and "The Formula for Innovation", were held for Lobachevsky Nizhny Novgorod State University. The event was aimed at supporting users in accessing patent information and its effective use. Participants worked through practical case studies based on their own projects. 

VI. INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION ACTIVITIES IN THE FIELD OF PATENT INFORMATION

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.

• Technology and innovation support centers (in Russian)
• Projects of the Center "All-Russian Patent and Technical Library" of the Federal Institute of Industrial Property for Young People (in Russian)

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.

VII. ACTIVITIES RELATING TO THE IMPLEMENTATION OF WIPO STANDARDS CONCERNING PATENT INFORMATION

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.