Federal Service for Intellectual Property (Russia)

The Federal Service for Intellectual Property, commonly known as Rospatent (Russian: Федеральная служба по интеллектуальной собственности (Роспатент), 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)".[2]

Federal Service for Intellectual Property
Федеральная служба по интеллектуальной собственности (Роспатент)
Emblem of the Federal Service for Intellectual Property
Agency overview
Formed9 March 2004 (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)

In the former Soviet Union, Goskomizobretenie (Russian: Госкомизобретений), which stood for Gostudarstvennyi 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 August 1, 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.[3]

References
  1. "Grigory Ivliyev". Government of the Russian Federation. Retrieved 16 October 2020.
  2. RU Russian Federation (name of Office; fees), PCT Newsletter, November 2012, p. 4.
  3. Statistics, Intellectual Property in Russia, August 1, 2020

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