Rospatent Federal Service for Intellectual Property, Patents and Trademarks

The Federal Service for Intellectual Property (Rospatent) is the federal service of Russia, carrying out the functions of control and supervision in the field of legal protection and use of intellectual property objects, patents and trademarks and results of intellectual activity involved in economic and civil circulation, compliance with the interests of the Russian Federation, Russian individuals and legal entities in the distribution of rights to the results of intellectual activity, including those created within the framework of international scientific and technical cooperation.

Rospatent is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation.

Management structure in the department for March 2013

Information technologies in Rospatent

2024: The head of Rospatent reported to the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Mikhail Mishustin on the digitalization of the service

Rospatent is actively developing digital services in order to ensure comfortable and effective interaction with business and citizens. On August 1, 2024, the head of the department, Yuri Zubov, reported to the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Mikhail Mishustin.

According to him, during 2023-2024, Rospatent posted new interactive forms of the most demanded services on the State Public services portal, which are optimized for all modern standards. The list of documents required to receive services has been significantly reduced. In addition, work is constantly underway to reduce the timing of the provision of services. In particular, according to the registration of licensing agreements, franchise agreements, the time for the provision of services has decreased three times. By the end of 2024, work will be completed to place all the remaining government services of the department on the portal.

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We plan to start at the end of the year the proactive provision of a number of public services for business. We focus, of course, on the main life situations. Such, for example, as opportunities for registering a business, scaling a business, - notes Zubov.

Rospatent, together with the SME Corporation, is implementing a project to create a service on the МСП.РФ platform, which will allow registering intellectual property objects for the small and medium-sized businesses sector, conducting their market assessment, as well as submitting applications in order to carry out all the necessary measures to guarantee support the corporation. At the same time, a service is created together with the Ministry of Digital Development to warn about the expiration of the trademark. According to Zubov, people often miss deadlines and lose brands. The new system will help solve the problem: it will allow the user to be guided through all stages to extend the validity of the trademark.^[1]

2022:16 IT systems for protecting patents and inventors are being created in Russia for 3 billion rubles

The Federal Service for Intellectual Property (Rospatent) presented its digitalization program. This became known on March 24, 2022.

According to the federal project "Digital State Administration" (TsSU) of the national program "Digital Economy of Russia," in 2021-2024 Rospatent should receive 1.77 billion rubles from the federal budget. to create information systems for informatization of activities for registration and protection of rights to intellectual property objects. On the basis of these systems, the provision of electronic services should be ensured on the Unified Portal of State and Municipal Services (EPGU).

Previously, the relevant measures were included in another federal project, also included in the national program "Digital Economy" - "Information Infrastructure." In 2019-2021 1.17 billion rubles were allocated for these purposes. That is, the total costs of digitalization of Rospatent in the period until 2024 will amount to 2.94 billion rubles.

It is planned to create 16 IT systems: 11 state information systems (IS), four information systems (IS) and another information system that ensures the translation of traditional formats into digital form. In most cases, the customer of IT systems is the Federal Institute of Industrial Property (FIPS) subordinate to Rospatent.

Fedproekt TsSU assumed that these information systems will be put into test operation in 2020, into commercial operation - in 2021. As explained in the press service of Rospatent, at the end of 2021, work was completed on the creation of four information systems, and the work on the creation of the remaining GIS is at the final stage and will be completed in 2022. It is necessary to complete the procedures for the purchase of the required software and hardware systems and carry out certification according to information security requirements.

Deviations from the deadlines for fulfilling obligations established by contracts are due to the untimely fulfillment of obligations by the executors due to the epidemiological situation, as well as due to the sequestration in 2020 of 2021 budget funds for the purchase of software and hardware systems, Rospatent explained. - The lack of funding did not allow timely work to provide computing resources to the systems being created, to build information security systems, to carry out a set of measures for the design and implementation of information security systems, as well as to carry out work to prepare for the certification and certification of the information infrastructure and GIS according to the requirements of information protection,

The digitalization of Rospatent ensured omnichannel when working with applicants, "said Yuri Zubov, recently appointed head of the department. - All the way from applying to receiving an electronic document is seamless online. Rospatent collected a global array of patent information and individualization tools, and also created services for working with intellectual property objects based on big data and intellectual property technologies. Also, all internal services of Rospatent are combined into a single tire, which is the basis for both interdepartmental and international interaction of the department.

In addition, due to the introduction of a platform for the circulation of rights to intellectual property, the term for registering order agreements will be reduced to two days, Zubov added.^[2]

Rospatent's digital platforms allow the creation of new services and other departments, - said the head of the department. - So, together with the "Russian Export Center" (REC), it is planned to create a patent protection service for foreign regimes of one window. It is also planned to create a service for the company's intellectual property profile within the framework of the mechanism of seamless support for startups and integration with the Moscow innovation cluster.

2018: Rospatent plans to use artificial intelligence in its work

The Federal Intellectual Property Service (Rospatent) announced its readiness to cooperate with IT companies to introduce solutions based on artificial intelligence technologies into its activities. This was told by the head of the department Grigory Ivliev in January 2018 in an interview with TASS.

He noted that Rospatent plans to use digitalization tools in its work: "Digitalization, which is carried out in Rospatent, is our main direction of development. Digitalization is global, there are phenomena that make up challenges to intellectual property rights: the Internet of Things, big data, blockchain, artificial intelligence. But today we take these tools in order to use them in our work. " The agency plans first of all to create a register of 3D technologists. It will allow you to compare the 3D model from the patent application with already registered objects. "The expert will simply watch the results of this search, where mismatches will be marked in red and similarities in green," the head of Rospatent explained.

According to Mr. Ivliev, the department discussed cooperation with the Internet company Yandex, and at the moment it is already working with the system integrators CROC and I-Teco. Rospatent also announced a competition for software developers. According to the head of Rospatent, the department is open to proposals from IT companies.

The head of the department also gave a forecast on the dynamics of patent activity for this year. {{| The growth of applications for trademarks will continue. In 2017, about 73 thousand applications for trademarks were submitted, more than 18 thousand more than last year. These are very significant figures for our economy. There will be a geometric increase in applications for industrial designs. We entered the system of international registration of industrial samples, and now in order to register an industrial model with us, from February 28, 2018, our applicants will not need to enter into correspondence with the patent office of each country where they want to register their industrial sample. It is enough to submit an application to Rospatent and indicate in which countries registration is requested. And we will be able to register them on the territory of 82 states. Accordingly, we will also register applications from these countries. As for patent activity, I think there will be significant growth here too. Because the number of state investments in R&D is increasing. And we need to ensure the effectiveness of these investments, "he said

History

2022: Appointment of Yuri Zubov as Head of Rospatent

On February 18, 2022, it became known about the appointment of Yuri Zubov as the new head of the Federal Service for Intellectual Property (Rospatent). In this post, he replaced Grigory Ivliev, who headed the service since 2015. Read more here.

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