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
Intellectual property (IP) is a category of property that includes intangible creations of the human intellect. There are many types of intellectual property, and some countries recognize more than others. The best-known types are patents, cop ...
. Its former name was "Federal Service for Intellectual Property, Patents and Trademarks (Rospatent)".
In the former
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...
, ''Goskomizobretenie'' (russian: Госкомизобретений), which stood for ''Gosudarstvennyi komitet po delam izobretenie i otkrytii'', was the State Committee for
Invention
An invention is a unique or novel device, method, composition, idea or process. An invention may be an improvement upon a machine, product, or process for increasing efficiency or lowering cost. It may also be an entirely new concept. If an id ...
s and Discoveries. It maintained a registry of inventions and discoveries and gave out authors certificates and
patent
A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an sufficiency of disclosure, enabling disclo ...
s.
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.
Statistics, Intellectual Property in Russia
August 1, 2020
References
External links
Official website
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Government agencies of Russia
Patent offices
Russian intellectual property law
International Searching and Preliminary Examining Authorities
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