ROSPATENT ANNUAL REPORT 2019 Rospatent Annual Report 2019

Welcoming address Head of Rospatent Grigory Ivliev 4

1 ACTIVITIES OF ROSPATENT in the 7 2 ACTIVITIES OF ROSPATENT on control 35 sphere of legal protection of objects for and supervision in the sphere of legal IP rights protection: provision of public protection and utilization of the results services and examination of appeals of intellectual activity of civil, military and applications and dual use created with the federal budget funding and in the sphere of Introduction 8 legal protection of the State interests 1.1. Legal and methodological support of the 9 in the course of economic and civil provision of public services turnover of the R&D results of military, 1.2. State registration of trademark, service 11 special and dual use mark, collective mark Introduction 36 1.3. State registration of inventions, utility 12 2.1. Control and supervision in the sphere 37 models of legal protection and utilization of the 1.4. State registration of industrial designs 13 results of intellectual activity of civil, military and dual use created with the 1.5. State registration of appellations of origin 14 federal budget funding and grant of exclusive rights to such appellations, as well as grant of exclusive 2.2. Legal protection of the State interests 41 rights to appellations of origin registered in the course of economic and civil law earlier turnover of the R&D results of military, special and dual use 1.6. State registration of computer programs, 16 databases, topographies of integrated circuits 3 INTERACTION OF ROSPATENT with the 45 1.7. State registration of contracted disposition 18 federal executive, judicial and other of exclusive right to the objects of authorities; interaction of Rospatent intellectual property and transfer of with the regions of the Russian exclusive right without a contract Federation 1.8. Amendments to the state registers, 23 Introduction 46 renewal, cessation, restoration of legal protection of objects of intellectual 3.1. Interaction of Rospatent with the federal 47 property, open licenses, publication of executive authorities. court decisions 3.2. Interaction of Rospatent with judicial 47 1.9. Provision of public services in electronic 26 authorities form 3.3. Cooperation and Interaction of Rospatent 48 1.10. Certification and registration of patent 28 with the regions of the Russian Federation attorneys of the Russian Federation 3.4. Consideration of requests from citizens 52 1.11. Consideration of administrative disputes 32 and legal entities in Rospatent and its related to legal protection of the results subordinate organizations of intellectual activity and means of 3.5. Statistics of reviewing citizens’ requests for 52 individualization consultations 4 INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION 55 6 SCIENTIFIC, EDUCATIONAL AND 85 AWARENESS-RAISING ACTIVITY Introduction 56 Introduction 86 4.1. World Intellectual Property Organization 57 (WIPO) 6.1. Scientific activity 87 4.2. Rospatent activities to fulfill international 58 6.2. Educational activity 90 obligations of the Russian Federation arising from its participation in the Patent 6.3. Raising the awareness: forums, 93 Cooperation Treaty (PCT) conferences, seminars, round tables, etc. 4.3. Rospatent activities to fulfill international 59 obligations of the Russian Federation arising from its participation in the MODERN PATENT ANALYTICS. FIPS 101 Madrid Agreement Concerning the 7 PROJECT OFFICE PRACTICE International Registration of Trademarks and the Protocol Relating to the Madrid Introduction 102 Agreement 7.1. Insight managed analitics 103 4.4. Rospatent activities to fulfill international 60 obligations of the Russian Federation 7.2. Consulting products and services 104 arising from its participation in the Hague 7.3. Old and new business tasks 104 System for the International Registration of Industrial Designs 7.4. Development of competencies 104 4.5. Participation in WIPO Patent Information 60 7.5. Educational and training programs on 105 Classifications (IPC) Bodies patent analytics 4.6. The World Trade Organization (WTO) 61 7.6. Openness to partnership 106 4.7. BRICS 61 4.8. Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum 62 (APEC) 8 ROSPATENT IN PROJECT 109 “OPEN GOVERNMENT” 4.9. European Patent Office (EPO) 62 Introduction 110 4.10. European Union Intellectual Property 62 Office (EUIPO) 8.1. Main financial indicators of Rospatent 111 4.11. Commonwealth of Independent States 62 8.2. Human resources and anti-corruption 111 (CIS) activities 4.12. Eurasian Patent Organization (EAPO) 63 8.3. Realization of the concept of openness of 113 4.13. Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) 63 Rospatent 4.14. Bilateral cooperation 63 Participation of Rospatent in Patent 4.15. 65 ANNEX TO THE ANNUAL REPORT 117 Prosecution Highway program (РРН) Includes data on the activities of Rospatent in 2019

5 DIGITAL ROSPATENT 67 Introduction 68 5.1. Rospatent’s participation in the 69 implementation of the national program “Digital Economy of the Russian Federation” 5.2. Development of automated systems and 71 electronic services 5.3. Use of Rospatent internet resources. 72 Official and informational publications of Rospatent and FIPS 5.4. Development of State Patent Collection 79 and information services 4

Grigory Ivliev

Head of the Federal Service for Intel- lectual Property (Rospatent)

DEAR FRIENDS!

In his traditional address to the Federal As- technology; to set up a support mechanism sembly of the Russian Federation, Vladimir for innovative businesses, start-ups; to sup- Putin has emphasized that “today the speed port high-technology exports. of technological change in the world is increasing manifold, and we must create our The intellectual property system both in Russia own technologies and standards in the areas and in the world offers great opportunities to that define our future”. He clearly specified achieve the tasks set by the President. New the key priorities of Russian technological technologies should have timely and high-qual- development: artificial intelligence, genet- ity legal protection not only nationally, but also ics, new materials, energy sources and digi- abroad. Patent research, patent analytics and tal technology. By succeeding, by developing patent technology intelligence should become these technologies, protecting them with in- an integral part of any research and develop- tellectual property tools, we are capable to ment. Using them, we could wisely determine strengthen position of the Russian Federation technological and research priorities in the among the technological leaders, and, as a fields defined by the President; determine the result, to enhance the quality of life of our markets, where innovative patented technol- people, future generations. ogy is in the highest demand.

The President of the Russian Federation We have to develop the technology transfer highlighted the need for regulatory and infra- system, to involve leading research centers in structural changes, for creating conditions for the development of applied innovations, to high technology development in our country. strengthen mutually beneficial cooperation Vladimir Putin brought the attention of minis- between scientific, research sector and indus- ters, senators, members of the State Duma to try, business. We have to encourage authors the pressing need to adopt a “technological to create unique products and to be engaged legislative package” as soon as possible; to in the process of their implementation and introduce pilot legal framework for the devel- commercialization. Inventors, scientists, re- opment and implementation of the newest searchers and developers should gain not only 5

public recognition, but also an adequate fi- the promotion of the Russian language as a nancial reward. We have to create financial in- working language of the Madrid and Hague struments in the IP field: from lending against International Registration Systems, and the the pledge of IP rights, fair and transparent increased use of the Russian language at evaluation of IP assets to preferential taxes WIPO. The Russian Federation is a leader of for innovative companies. We should initiate WIPO’s Task Forces, working on updating the any steps towards systematic strengthening international standards in the field of IP, in- of technological independence of our country cluding the use of 3D technologies and the without neglecting global research and scien- blockchain technology. We have also started tific cooperation, including the promotion of working on the Accession to the Geneva Act scientific and technological children‘s crea- of the Lisbon Agreement on Appellations of tivity, education and raising public awareness Origin and Geographical Indications. of the IP sphere. A number of draft legislations, created in One of the major achievements was reducing collaboration with Rospatent, has been sub- the time spent on examination of applica- mitted to the State Duma of the Federal As- tions on all types of objects for intellectual sembly of the Russian Federation. They are property rights protection. Provisions on IP aimed at enhancing active use in the national field development were included in a num- economy of the main intangible asset of XXI ber of government documents, including the century — the intellectual property, the driver Guidelines for Government Activity till 2024, of technological development and the basis National Program “Digital economy of the Rus- of social well-being. sian Federation”, National Project “Science”, measures of export support and many others. In 2020 this work will be continued in order to create digital system of intellectual prop- We have strengthened the position of the erty, which allows to generate a full-fledged Russian Federation in the World Intellectual intellectual property market and to adapt the Property Organization (WIPO). This involves legislation to the challenges of the digital era. 1 ACTIVITIES OF ROSPATENT in the sphere of legal protection of objects for IP rights protection: provision of public services and examination of appeals and applications 8

L. Kiriy,

Deputy Head

INTRODUCTION

Adaptation of legislation in the field of IP In 2019, there was a significant increase in legal protection to the challenges of the filing of applications for the state registra- digital economy became one of the most tion of trademarks and service marks with important tasks of Rospatent in 2019. The Rospatent. There is also an increase in filing formation of a system of public services that of applications for the state registration of is convenient for the applicants and right- industrial designs, utility models, appellations holders, ensuring the quality of the services of origin, computer programs, databases and and accessibility was aimed at accomplish- topologies of integrated circuits. ment of this task. A considerable achievement of 2019 was fur- In 2019, a number of bills was proposed to ther reduction of the time limits for consid- the State Duma of the Russian Federation, eration of applications for all objects for IP elaborated with participation of Rospatent, rights protection and corresponding increase which are intended to ensure the active use in the number of applications examined. of intellectual property in modern economy. Particular attention in the bills was given to Steady reduction of the time limits for con- new legal opportunities, allowing applicants to sideration of applications for all objects for attach three-dimensional models of industrial IP rights protection and increase of the total property objects in electronic format to the volume of decisions made on objects for IP application materials, and allowing issuance rights protection became possible also due to of electronic granted protection certificates the development of electronic filing services. by Rospatent. In 2019, the number of requests for providing public services submitted to Rospatent in In 2019, in the legislation on the protection of electronic form increased by more than 40 % intellectual property rights, a new object of in- compared to 2018. tellectual property for the Russian Federation appeared – geographical indication. Increased Further development of various digital ser- use of these objects of intellectual property vices is planned to increase convenience of in the economies of the country regions will providing public services by Rospatent. It is provide additional support to the Russian planned to implement 14 new information manufacturers to enter foreign markets. systems for registration and protection of intellectual property rights until 2021. 1.1. the Russian Federation” (providing for the state registration of intellectual property LEGAL AND METHODOLOGICAL objects) was proposed to the State Duma SUPPORT OF THE PROVISION OF PUBLIC of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Fed- 9 SERVICES eration. The Draft introduces amendments to the Code that provide Rospatent with In 2019, a new object of intellectual proper- the opportunity to carry out activities re- ty of the Russian Federation – geographical lated to the legal protection of the results indications – appeared in the legislation on of intellectual activity directly or through its the protection of intellectual rights to the subordinate institution (the Institute). The results of intellectual activity and means of Draft also ensures improving the procedure individualization. Federal Law No. 230-FZ dat- for conducting an information search and ed July 26, 2019 “On the amendments to Part examination of an application for a patent 4 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation” for an invention or utility model by creating and articles 1 and 23.1 of Federal Law “On the conditions for preliminary information search state regulation of production and circulation and evaluating patentability of the claimed of ethyl alcohol, alcoholic and alcohol-con- technical solution by the Russian scientific taining products and on the restriction of and educational organizations accredited by consumption (drinking) of alcoholic products” Rospatent with competencies in the specific will enter into force on July 27, 2020, except areas of knowledge. Such accreditation will the eighth and ninth paragraphs of subpar- be free of charge. Preliminary information agraph ‘e’ of paragraph 10 of Article 1 of the search service will be provided to applicants present Federal Law, that will come into force on a voluntary basis. on July 28, 2025. In addition, in 2019 the Draft of Federal law In particular, a new edition of subparagraph 1 No. 873108–7-FZ “On Amendments to the Civil of paragraph 3 of chapter 76 of the Civil Code Code of the Russian Federation (on the ex- of the Russian Federation (hereinafter – the pansion of the use of electronic technologies Code) is given, where the concept of a geo- in registering intellectual property rights)” graphical indication is given, which is granted was submitted to the State Duma of the legal protection, as a sign identifying goods Russian Federation, which was prepared as originating from the Region of a geographic part of federal project “Normative regulation area. Moreover, certain quality, reputation of digital environment“ of national program or other characteristics of such a product to “Digital Economy of the Russian Federation“, a large extent should be associated with its approved by the Government Commission on geographical origin (product characteristics). Digital Development, the use of information In the Region of this geographic area, at least technologies for improving the quality of life one of the stages of production of the goods and the conditions for doing business (Pro- should be carried out, which has a significant tocol No. 6 of December 27, 2018). impact on the formation of the characteristics of the goods. Aimed at improving the system of state registration of intellectual property, the Draft pro- The established requirements for the provides for amendments to the Code relating to vision of legal protection for a geographical providing the applicant with the opportunity indication are softer than the requirements to attach three-dimensional models of the for the protection of appellations of origin claimed inventions, utility models, industri- (hereinafter – NIPT). Novels on geographical al designs, trademarks in electronic format indications will contribute to the intensifi- to the application materials. The Draft also cation of use of such intellectual property proposes to issue electronic certificates on objects in the economies of the federal sub- granted protection, with the exception of pat- jects of the Russian Federation, to raising the ent for secret inventions, with retaining the awareness of regions in the country and in opportunity to receive them on paper carrier the world, investing in their development, at the request of the applicant. preserving rural settlements, increasing job opportunities, and developing tourism. Rospatent took an active part in the elab- oration of another Draft, also submitted to In order to improve the procedure for exam- the State Duma of the Russian Federation ination of applications for state registration in 2019, “On Amendments to Article 1360 of intellectual property results by Rospatent of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation the Draft of Federal Law No. 873108–7-FZ “On (in terms of clarifying provisions on the use Amendments to Part IV of the Civil Code of of an invention, utility model or industrial design in the interests of national security)” Law “On the organization of the provision of (No. 842633–7). state and municipal services” in accordance with the new edition of the Rules for the de- 10 The draft law provides for a new edition of velopment and approval of administrative Article 1360 of the Code, which will allow ap- regulations for provision of public services plying this legal mechanism for using an in- (approved by Decree of the Government of vention, utility model or industrial design in the Russian Federation of May 16, 2011 No. 373, the interests of national security to situations edited by Decree of the Government of the of necessary measures to protect the life Russian Federation dated June 13, 2018 No. and health of citizens with the specification 676) administrative regulations are approved of guarantees for payment of compensation by the body providing the public services, un- to patent holders. The methodology for de- less otherwise stipulated by the federal laws. termining the amount of compensation and the procedure for its payment will be ap- Due to the changes in the legislation in the proved by the Government of the Russian field of organization of the provision of state Federation. and municipal services, ratification of the Ge- neva Act of the Hague Agreement on the in- The possibility of coercive measures of the ternational registration of industrial designs, state on an unscrupulous right holder is as well as in order to take into account future provided for by international acts. The Draft changes in the legislation in the field of provi- complies with the provisions of Article 31 of sion of public services by Rospatent, includ- the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects ing in electronic format, as well as legislation of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) (WTO, in the field of legal protection of industrial Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negoti- designs, in 2019 Rospatent completed the ations, April 15, 1994). The proposed changes preparation, submission for public discussion create an opportunity to make up quickly the of draft orders of the Ministry of Economic lack or shortage in the country of foreign pat- Development of the Russian Federation on ented medicines or medical devices that are recognition of the previously adopted orders necessary to protect the life and health of on approval of administrative regulations and the population. drafts of new administrative regulations, regulating the provision of all 26 public services in As for the regulation of methodological sup- the established field of activity by Rospatent port for the provision of public services, in as invalid. accordance with the requirements of Federal

Figure 1 Dynamics of filing of applications for state registration of trademarks of the Russian Federation in 2015–2019

Total applications filed for registration of trademarks in the Russian Federation including: under international procedure under national under the Madrid Agreement or procedure the Protocol including:

by Russian by foreign applicants applicants

2015 61 477 43 762 34 304 9 458 17 715 2016 64 762 50 639 41 523 9 116 14 123 2017 73 510 56 332 46 600 9 732 17 178 2018 76 062 58 658 49 122 9 536 17 404

2019 87 509 68 705 58 616 10 089 18 804 2019, in % vs 115,05 117,13 119,33 105,80 108,04 2018 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 1.2. under the national procedure decreased by 2.07 months and constituted 5.59 months; STATE REGISTRATION OF TRADEMARK, the time of consideration under the interna- SERVICE MARK, COLLECTIVE MARK tional procedure decreased by 1 month and 11 constituted 6.33 months. Thus, the average In 2019, there was a significant increase in time of consideration of applications in 2019 filing applications to Rospatent for state reg- constituted 5.96 months. istration of trademarks and service marks (hereinafter referred to as the trademark). The current dynamics of the reduction in As compared with the previous reported pe- terms allows predicting their further reduc- riod, the increase constitutes 15.05 %, while tion in 2020. the receipt under the national procedure increased by 17.13 % and the receipt under the One of the positive trends in 2019 was that international procedure increased by 8.04 % with an increase in the number of incoming (see Figure 1). applications, the time required to consider the application continued to decrease. The growth of the rate of filed applications for registration of trademarks was provided due In 2019, the overall indicator of examined to increase of the rate of applications filed by applications at the stage of examination re- Russian applicants in 2019–19.33 %. mained at the level of 2018 and amounted to 82,914 units (see chart 2). However, in 2019 In 2019, Rospatent continued to conduct ac- compared with 2018, the number of decisions tivities aimed at reducing the time limits for on refusal at the stage of examination of the consideration of applications, which, among claimed designation increased by 10.57 %. The other things, contributed to an increase in growth of this indicator was also characteris- the number of applications for trademarks tic of the previous reporting period. filed by the Russian applicants. In addition, in 2019, measures were strengthened to improve In 2019, the number of registered trademarks the quality of examination of applications for increased compared to the previous report- trademarks, including through internal control ing period. The dynamics of trademark regis- of workflow on applications. tration is shown in Figure 3.

In addition, in 2019 as compared to 2018, the The dynamics of filing, consideration of appli- average time of consideration of applications cations for state registration of trademarks

Figure 2 Dynamics of consideration of applications for state registration of trademarks of the Russian Federation in 2015–2019

Total considered applications at the stage of examination, including: Withdrawal and decisions made as the refusal at the result of examination of stage of formal claimed designations examination including:

on granting decisions of legal decisions on with- protection on refusal drawal

2015 63 266 57 738 47 097 10 271 370 5 528 2016 73 690 67 398 58 393 8 596 409 6 292 2017 73 411 66 264 56 849 9 035 380 7 147 2018 83 654 80 147 70 157 9 507 483 3 507

2019 82 914 76 945 66 062 10 512 371 5 969 2019, in % vs 99,12 96,00 94,16 110,57 76,81 170,20 2018 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Figure 3 Dynamics of registration of trademarks in 2015–2019 12 Registered trademarks, total including:

for Russian for foreign applicants applicants including: protection granted in the Region of the Russian Feder- ation to trademarks claimed under the Madrid Agreement and the Protocol

2015 43 042 20 539 22 503 14 073 2016 55 191 28 898 26 293 16 395 2017 56 030 31 062 24 968 15 965 2018 66 006 39 880 26 126 16 753

2019 66 707 40 501 26 206 17 303 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

and the dynamics of trademark registration, dynamics of filing applications for inventions as well as other statistics are given in tables in 2019 by foreign applicants is presented in 1.1–1.9 of Annex 1 to the Report. table 1.17 of Annex 1 to the Report.

In 2019, 45,742 applications for inventions were examined. As compared to 2018, the number of applications examined in 2019 increased by 1.3. 337 applications.

STATE REGISTRATION OF INVENTIONS, The increase in the number of examined ap- UTILITY MODELS plications is explained by the reduction in time limits for their consideration, which, in turn, In 2019 as compared to 2018, the number of made it possible to consider a greater number filed applications for inventions decreased of applications in the reported period. by 6.44 %. The decrease in the number of received applications was conditioned by de- The average time limit of consideration of crease of submission of applications by the applications for an invention at the end of Russian applicants (their number decreased 2019 was 5.69 months, which is 29.3 % less than by 6.37 % compared to 2018), as well as a de- in 2018 (8.05 months). crease in filing of applications by foreign applicants which number decreased by 6.37 % The average time limit of the first step of ex- compared to 2018 (see Table 1.10 of Annex 1 amination also decreased, which constituted to the Report). 4.95 months in 2019, and in 2018 – 7.65 months (see Figure 4). At the same time, among the leading countries in terms of the number of applications for an invention, the decrease in filings in the Russian Federation affected a wide range of countries. Figure 4 Thus, the number of applications filed by the The average time limit of the first action of United States applicants decreased by 10.31 % examination of inventions for 2017–2019 compared to 2018. The number of applications (Time limit of the first action, months) filed by the German applicants decreased by 14.54 % compared to 2018. The number of 8,95 applications filed by applicants from Japan 7,65 decreased by 17.29 % compared to 2018. At the same time, the number of applications filed by the Chinese applicants increased by 40.37 %. 4,95 Also in 2019, there was an increase in the filing of applications from the applicants of the Republic of Korea – an increase of 9.67 %. The 2017 2018 2019 Figure 5 At the same time, compared with 2018 in 2019, The average term of the first action of ex- the number of applications for a utility model amination for utility models for 2017–2019 considered decreased by 3.5 %. Also, the number (Time limit of the first action, months) of registered utility models decreased by 10.3 %. 13

3,21 In 2019, the average time limits of consideration of applications for a utility model con- 2,64 tinued to decrease, which amounted to 1.35 months, which is 52.8 % less than in 2018.

1,11 It should be noted that the Novosibirsk branch of FIPS made a significant contribu- tion to consideration of applications for utility 2017 2018 2019 model in 2019.

The average time limit of the first action also In 2019 in addition to consideration of national decreased, which was 1.11 months for the whole and international applications, the Office car- year 2019, and 2.64 months in 2018 (see Figure 5). ried out information searches for the Patent Offices of Turkey, the CIS countries and the The main indicators of the works on provision Eurasian Patent Office. of the state services for the state registration of inventions and utility models and granting In 2019, compared to 2018, the number of of patents for them in 2019 are shown in ta- applications for utility models increased by bles 1.10–1.32 of Annex 1 to the Report. 4 % (9,747 applications in 2018 and 10,136 applications in 2019) (see table 1.23 of Annex 1 to the Report).

Thus, in particular, in 2019, the Russian appli- 1.4. cants filed for 4.91 % more applications than in 2018 (9262 in 2018 and 9717 in 2019). At the STATE REGISTRATION OF INDUSTRIAL same time, the number of utility model ap- DESIGNS plications filed by foreign applicants in 2019 decreased by 13.61 % (485 in 2018 and 419 in From 2015, there was a steady growth in the 2019) (see table 1.23 of Annex 1 to the Report). receipt of applications for industrial designs, which lasted until 2019. Based on the foregoing, it can be noted that in 2019 the interest in filing applications for such an In 2019, 6920 applications for industrial de- object of patent law as a utility model increased. signs were filed, which is 1012 more than filed

Figure 6 Dynamics of filing of applications for granting of patents on industrial design in the Russian Federation in 2015–2019

Applications filed with Rospatent, total including: Under international procedure under the under national Geneva Act of the procedure Hague Agreement including: from from Russian foreign applicants applicants

2015 4 929 4 929 2 015 2 914 0 2016 5 464 5 464 2 391 3 073 0 2017 6 487 6 487 3 263 3 224 0 2018 5 908 5 908 3 218 2 690 0

2019 6 920 6 048 3 363 2 685 872 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Figure 7 inventions, the temporary legal protection Time for consideration of applications of industrial designs. Such protection com- on industrial designs in Russian Federa- mences from the date of publication of in- 14 tion in 2015–2019 formation on the application for an industrial (Substantive examination time limit) design, which is carried out by the request of the applicant after completion of formal examination. In 2019, no such applications 6,7 6,8 were received by Rospatent. 6,05 5,49 The main indicators of receipt of applications and grant of patents for industrial designs are given in the statistical Tables 1.33–1.38 of Annex 1 to the Report. 4,4

2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

1.5. in the last year. Thus, 6048 applications for industrial designs under the national pro- STATE REGISTRATION OF APPELLATIONS cedure and 872 applications in accordance OF ORIGIN AND GRANT OF EXCLUSIVE with the Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement RIGHTS TO SUCH APPELLATIONS, were filed (hereinafter – the Geneva Act of AS WELL AS GRANT OF EXCLUSIVE the Hague Agreement). In percentage terms, RIGHTS TO APPELLATIONS OF ORIGIN the growth in applications amounted to 17.1 % REGISTERED EARLIER (see Figure 6). In 2019 as compared to 2018, the number of When considering applications for grant of a filed applications for state registration of the patent for an industrial design, much atten- AOs and for grant of exclusive right to such tion was paid to the task facing the Office on appellations and applications for grant of reducing the terms required for execution of an exclusive right to AOs registered earlier administrative procedures. In 2019, 6,903 ap- (hereinafter referred to as applications for plications were examined, which is 1.2 % more AOs) increased insignificantly (by 1 %). than last year. The stable receipt of applications for AOs The average time limit of consideration of for the last 2 years compared to 2017 and applications for grant of a patent for an in- 2016, as well as compared to earlier years is dustrial design at the stage of substantive associated with the active work of Rospatent examination constitutes 4.4 months. Data on with regional producers of traditional goods the timing of consideration of applications at and the work on the promotion of AOs as the stage of substantive examination by year an object of legal protection for traditional are shown in Figure 7. goods having special properties. Such work was carried out in the framework of confer- Such a term of consideration creates large ences, meetings, seminars, thematic meetings safety margin of the system to ensure the with patent attorneys and other experts in term of consideration of applications for in- the field of intellectual property, as well as dustrial designs established by the govern- in the course of interaction with the repre- ment, including in case of sharp increase in sentatives of administrations of the subjects receipt of applications for industrial designs of the Russian Federation and executive au- in 2020, including receipts of applications in thorities, in particular, authorized to provide accordance with the Geneva Act of the Hague conclusions provided by law to applications Agreement. and declarations concerning AOs.

In 2019, the automated workflow management The dynamics for application filing and grant system for applications filed in accordance of certificates for AOs is given in Table 1.39 of with the Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement Annex 1 to the Report and in Figure 8. was put into operation. For a number of constituent subjects of the On June 27, 2019, amendments to part four Russian Federation, the number of applica- of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation tions in the reported year increased as com- came into force, providing, by analogy with pared to the previous year. Figure 8 Dynamics of application filing and grant of certificates for AOs in the Russian Federation in 2015–2019 15

Applications filed for State registration of AOs and grant of exclusive right to AOs, as well as applications for grant of Certificates of exclusive exclusive right to AOs registered earlier, right to AOs granted, total total of which: of which:

from from in the in the Russian foreign name of name of applicants applicants Russian foreign applicant applicants

2015 44 43 1 25 25 0 2016 44 42 2 24 16 8 2017 56 56 0 30 27 3 2018 99 97 2 36 36 0

2019 100 92 8 67 66 1 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

Especially distinguished are: Republic of North Manufacturers from 6 constituent subjects of Ossetia – Alania, Republic of Chuvashia, Kras- the Russian Federation (Republic of Kalmykia, nodar Region, Nizhni Novgorod Region, Sverd- Republic of Chuvashia, Krasnoyarsk Region, lovsk Region. Leningrad Region, Pskov Region, Rostov Region) filed applications for registration of designations as AOs for the first time (see Figure 9).

Figure 9 Dynamics of filing of applications for AOs by constituent subjects of the Russian Federation in 2018–2019

2018 2019 2018 2019 Republic of Adygea 3 Voronezh Region 1 Altai Republic 2 1 Ivanovo Region 3 Republic of Buryatia 1 Irkutsk Region 1 1 Republic of Dagestan 2 Kirov Region 3 1 Republic of Kalmykia 1 Kostroma Region 2 Karachay-Cherkess Republic 1 1 Kurgan Region 2 1 Komi Republic 1 Leningrad Region 2 Republic of Crimea 2 4 Moscow Region 1 1 Mari El Republic 5 1 Nizhni Novgorod region 3 Republic of North Ossetia – Alania 4 Novgorod Region 2 Republic of Tatarstan 1 2 Omsk Region 1 Udmurt Republic 1 Orenburg Region 2 4 Chuvash Republic 4 Penza Region 1 Altai Region 1 3 Pskov Region 2 Kamchatka Region 3 1 Rostov Region 1 Krasnodar Region 3 6 Ryazan Region 5 Krasnoyarsk Region 1 Saratov Region 1 Perm Region 2 Sverdlovsk Region 3 Stavropol Region 26 15 Tver Region 1 1 Archangelsk Region 1 Tula Region 7 9 Astrakhan Region 6 4 Chelyabinsk Region 4 2 Belgorod Region 2 Yaroslavl Region 1 4 Bryansk Region 1 Saint Petersburg 1 Vologda Region 3 Among the applications filed for registra- In 2019, applications continued to be received tion as AOs in 2019, 60 applications refer to for the goods for which federal executive the designations not previously registered body authorized to issue conclusions had 16 as AOs. Special mention should be made to not been defined. such designations as “Semenovskaya Matry- oshka”, “Tagilsky podnos”, “Sol-Iletskii arbuzi”, In 2019, compared with previous years, the “Konakovsky fayans”, “Taimyrsky sig”, “Vyatkye number of applications filed by foreign ap- solenii ogurzi”, “Kalmyzkaya dombra”. plicants increased (8).

The leading position for the goods, which legal The positive dynamics as compared to the protection of AOs and/or grant of an exclusive previous years confirms the practicability of right to AOs has been sought, occupied by the continuation of work aimed at drawing public food products among which such designations attention to the issues of ensuring legal pro- as “Serunskaya legenda” (cheese), “Kubanskie tection of AOs, providing support to regional yabloki”, “Kubanskii rannii kartofel”, “Ctolbushinskii producers of traditional goods. zvar”, “Chleb Gorodichenskii”, “Shartan Chuvash- skii”, “Viborgsky krendel”, “Krasnodarskaya zemly- anika” (strawberry) were filed. The second rate in terms of the number of applications is taken by mineral waters and handicrafts (see Figure 10). 1.6.

In 2019, the number of applications for which the STATE REGISTRATION OF COMPUTER consideration was completed, almost doubled PROGRAMS, DATABASES, compared to 2018, and, as a result, the number TOPOGRAPHIES OF INTEGRATED of granted certificates increased, which, first CIRCUITS of all, is due to the increase in the number of incoming conclusions from authorized bodies, In 2019, the number of filed applications as on which basis the applications are examined. compared to 2018 increased from 17,965 to 20,840 applications (increase of 16 %). Among authorized bodies, Rospatent coop- erates most closely with the Ministry of Ag- At the same time, the number of applications riculture of the Russian Federation, which is for state registration of computer programs authorized to issue conclusions on the most (hereinafter referred to as the CPs) increased extensive list of goods. by 14.3 %, the number of applications for state registration of databases (hereinafter re- It should be noted that in 2019 new designa- ferred to as DBs) increased by 30.72 %, and tions were registered as AOs – 44, which is the number of applications for state regis- 2 times more compared with 2018 (18). tration of topographies of integrated circuits

Figure 10 Breakdown by goods in which respect legal protection of AOs and / or grant of exclusive right to AOs were sought in 10 Applications 2019 2 9 Mineral water 18 Artisanal Handicraft articles 17 7 Alcoholic products 13 3 Agricultural products 9 Confectionary products 7 1 Fish and fishery products 7 Cheese 7 2 Bakery products 4 7 Honey 3 7 Natural drinking water 2 13 Meat products 2 4 18 Tea 1 Other 10 17 Figure 11 Dynamics of filing of applications for state registration of computer programs, databases and topographies of integrated circuits in 2015–2019 17

Computer programs, Databases, Topographies of total total IC, total of which: of which: of which: by Russian Russian by applicants foreign by applicants foreign by applicants foreign by applicants foreign by applicants foreign by applicants

2015 13 362 13 248 114 1 726 1 724 2 158 150 8 2016 14 843 14 750 93 1 807 1 803 4 186 181 5 2017 14 092 13 997 95 1 682 1 678 4 190 185 5 2018 15 645 15 541 104 2 063 2 059 4 257 242 15

2019 17 878 17 739 139 2 685 2 684 1 277 270 7 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

(hereinafter – TICs) increased by 7.8 % (see The largest growth was observed in North Figure 11). Caucasian (+41.5 %), the Far Eastern (+21.4 %), Volga (+ 20.7 %), Northwestern (+19.5 %), Ural It should be noted that the highest growth of (+18.4 %), Central (15.5 %) federal districts (see the receipt of applications as compared to Figure 12). 2018 was observed for the following categories of applicants, in% of the total number of It should be noted that in 2019, foreign appli- applications filed: individuals (+25.5 %), com- cants from 23 countries filed 147 applications. mercial organizations (+8.9 %), governmental The most active applicants were from Cyprus organizations (+8.7 %). (31 applications), Belarus (21 applications), Ber-

Figure 12 Information about filed applications for registration of computer programs, databases, topographies of integrated circuits by federal districts of the Russian Federation in 2015–2019

Federal district 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Central district 6875 7958 7776 8617 9956 Volga district 2017 2170 2006 2218 2678 Northwestern 1700 2136 1866 2467 2948 district

Southern district 1183 1290 1197 1297 1341 North Caucasus 449 362 308 354 501 Siberia* 1523 1598 1495 1597 1724 Ural district 828 809 874 777 920 Far Eastern* district 484 411 338 515 625 Crimea** 63

Total: 15122 16734 15860 17842 20693 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

* The count of filing of applications in Siberian and Far ** Since 2016 is part of Southern federal district . Eastern districts is done taking into account the transfer in 2018 2 entties from Siberian to Far Eastern district. muda (18 applications), Kyrgyzstan (12 applica- In 2019, the average time for consideration of tions), Latvia (11 applications), Kazakhstan (10 applications was significantly reduced (for CPs applications), Finland (8 applications), Switzer- and DBs: 1.28 months in 2018 and 0.44 months 18 land (6 applications), Norway (6 applications), in 2019; for TICs: 1.23 months in 2018 and 0.41 the Great Britain (5 applications), Singapore months in 2019, and in December 2019, the av- (5 applications). erage time constituted 0.4 months (CPs – 0.41 months, DBs – 0.43 months, TICs – 0.36 months). By the end of 2019, the number of applications for registration of CPs, DBs and TICs In total as of December 31, 2019, there were completed by consideration amounted to 194,096 registrations. 21039 applications, which is 1036 more than in 2018 (+ 5.2 %). The main indicators of receipts of applications and grant of certificates for CPs, DBs and TICs are In 2019, 20,628 CPs, DBs, and TICs were regis- given in Tables 1.40–1.42 of Annex 1 to the Report. tered, which is 1207 more than in 2018 (+ 6.2 %) (see Figure 13).

In addition, the increase in the number of ap- 1.7. plications for CPs, DBs and TICs filed in electronic form continues. In 2019, the number STATE REGISTRATION OF CONTRACTED of applications filed through the Single Portal DISPOSITION OF EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO of Public Services (EPGU), constituted 1099 THE OBJECTS OF INTELLECTUAL PROP- (increase of 57.2 %). ERTY AND TRANSFER OF EXCLUSIVE RIGHT WITHOUT A CONTRACT The possibility of electronic filing of applications for CPs and DBs at Rospatent website This section provides information on regis- with the use of FIPS information systems is tered contracted dispositions of exclusive becoming more and more popular among the right and registered transfers of exclusive applicants. In 2019, 3,561 such requests were right to another person without conclusion received (in 2018, 1912 requests were received) a contract with a rightholder. (increase of 86.2 %). 1.7.1. Inventions, utility models, industrial de- When considering applications for state reg- signs istration of CPs, DBs, and TICs, great attention was paid to observance of the time limits for In 2019, 3,257 dispositions of exclusive rights execution of administrative procedures. were registered in relation to 8,064 objects of patent law.

Figure 13 Dynamics of registration of computer programs, databases and topographies of integrated circuits in 2015–2019

Computer programs, Databases, Topographies of total total IC, total of which: of which: of which: by Russian Russian by applicants foreign by applicants Russian by applicants foreign by applicants Russian by applicants foreign by applicants

2015 13 718 13 575 143 1 829 1 826 3 144 125 19 2016 13 988 13 908 80 1 696 1 692 4 174 169 5 2017 14 344 14 238 106 1 530 1 527 3 199 196 3 2018 17 007 16 885 122 2 173 2 171 2 241 222 19

2019 17 821 17 684 137 2 544 2 543 1 263 258 5 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 The dynamics of registration of dispositions to the implementation of new solutions in of exclusive rights under the contracts of al- development of the country’s economy. ienation, pledge of exclusive rights and grant of a right to use inventions, utility models, Table 1.44 of Annex 1 to the Report shows the 19 industrial designs in 2015–2019 is given in Table distribution by areas of technology of dispo- 1.43 of Annex 1 to the Report. sitions registered from 2015 to 2019 with the exclusive right to inventions, utility models, In 2019, the number of registered dispositions industrial designs. of exclusive right increased by 6.4 % as compared to 2018. At that, the increase is related The data given in Table 1.44 of Annex 1 to the Re- to newly registered dispositions under the port show that the maximum number of regis- contracts of alienation (6.4%) and right to use tered dispositions relates to such a field of tech- in accordance with license agreement (9.4%). nology as energy, electrical engineering – 497 (see Figure 14). Compared with the previous year, the The total number of dispositions relating to number of dispositions in this field of technol- amendments to previously registered con- ogy increased by 8.3 %. Despite a significant de- tract (in 2018–292 contracts, in 2019–270 con- crease in the number of registered dispositions tracts) and on early termination of previously (by 20.6 %) compared with the previous year in registered contract (in 2018–147 contracts, in the field of chemistry and petrochemistry, this 2019–147 contracts) decreased by 5.0 % (de- technical field remains one of the leading areas creased by 22 agreements on amendments, in the number of registered dispositions – 405. the number of dispositions on early termina- The top three leaders include medical field: the tion remained unchanged). number of registered dispositions in this field is 401, which is 6.6 % higher than last year. The number of registered pledges of the exclusive right remains insignificant (17 con- In recent years, traditionally the lowest activ- tracts), as compared to 2018 there is increase ity is observed in the field of metallurgy, with by 9 contracts. 79 registered dispositions in 2019 amounting to 78.2 % of the indicator for 2018. The opportunities provided by the state registration of a disposition under a pledge In other areas of technology, the number of agreement are hardly used by patent owners. registered dispositions has increased com- One of the reasons may be the low activity pared to the previous year. of financial institutions, based on the insuffi- cient popularization of pledge agreements in Table 1.45 of Annex 1 to the Report presents relation to objects of patent law. The use of the distribution of registered dispositions by financing secured by pledge may contribute the exclusive right under the contract de-

Figure 14 Number of registered dispositions of exclusive right by fields of technology in 2015–2019

Field 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Light, food processing industry 257 239 192 176 206 Machine building, machine tool building, tool 205 257 223 222 277 manufacturing Medical industry 396 379 429 376 401 Power engineering, electrical engineering 511 409 418 459 497 Chemical industry, petrochemical industry 406 406 475 510 405 Electronics, computing, instrument making industry 222 315 316 309 342 Metal industry 62 118 89 101 79 Oil and gas industry 142 166 146 134 151 Construction, building materials 226 259 240 247 249 Other 431 391 463 526 650 Total: 2858 2939 2991 3060 3257 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Figure 15 Statistics on the number of registered dis- Dynamics of changes in the number of reg- positions by the exclusive right under the istered transfers of exclusive rights with- contract and the number of patents in the 20 out a contract and the number of patents contracts are given in table 1.46 of Annex 1 in which respect the transfer of rights is to the Report. registered in 2015–2019 The number of patents for which dispositions 1969 are registered increased by 9.6 % in 2019 com- 1770 pared to 2018, and the average number of 1573 patents in one agreement increased by 3.3 % 1460 (in 2019–2.48 patents in one agreement, in 2018–2.4 patents in one contract). The increase 1284 in the number of patents in one contract can be explained both by the fact that several pat- 376 ents belong to the same technical task, which 268 284 258 is solved by the patent acquirer or licensee, as 235 well as by the financial component, since the fee for registering one disposition for several 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 patents is less than the fee for registering several dispositions for each patent individually. Number of registered transfers of exclusive right without a contract Number of patents in which respect the transfer In 2019, the maximum number of patents was of rights is registered recorded, for which an exclusive right was registered: 8064 patents. Moreover, the increase in the number of objects in respect pending on the category of business entities – of which the disposal of exclusive rights was parties to the contracts. registered, occurred primarily due to industrial designs – an increase by 72.6 % compared In general, the relative stability of the ratio to the amount of 2018. of activity of the selected categories of economic entities can be stated. Non-state en- In 2019, the ratio between the objects for terprises still dominate as the receiving and which the disposition is registered is the fol- transmitting parties. However, it should be lowing: invention – 53.7 %, utility model – 29.4 %, noted that compared with the previous year, industrial design – 16.9 %. the percentage of participation of individuals acting as the receiving party increased The increase in 2019 of the number of patents (by 0.6 %). At the same time, the participa- involved in economic turnover indicates the tion of such a category of business entities as interest of economic entities in the use of state enterprises, research institutes, design patent law objects. bureaus, universities as a receiving party decreased by 0.95 %. In 2019, compared to 2018, the number of registered transitions of exclusive rights without The quantitative indicators in relation to the concluding an agreement increased by 9.8 % in transferring party of the agreements have relation to the objects of patent law. The fluc- not changed compared to the previous year. tuation in statistics on registering the transfer of exclusive rights without an agreement from year to year is insignificant and is determined Figure 16 by the actual situation of patent holders, for Dynamics of the number of dispositions example, reorganization, inheritance. of exclusive rights to trademarks under contracts of alienation in 2015–2019 Figure 15 shows the dynamics of changes in the number of registered transfers of 4 678 exclusive rights without an agreement and the number of patents in respect of which a 4 593 transfer of rights is registered. 4 505 4 450 1.7.2. Trademarks and service marks

4 115 Table 1.47 of Annex 1 to the Report gives the data on the number of trademarks in which 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 respect alienation of the exclusive right, granting of the right of use under a license Figure 17 (sublicense) agreement and franchise (sub- Dynamics of the number of trademarks concession) contract were registered in in respect of which a right of use was 2015–2019. granted under a license agreement or a 21 franchise contract in 2015–2019 As compared to the total number of trademarks included in the subject matter of contracts of alienation and granting of the right 20640 of use, the number of trademarks in which respect the granting of the right of use under 18581 a license agreement and a franchise contract was registered in 2019, is 65,2 %, and the number 16689 of trademarks under which the exclusive right 15804 is transferred on the basis of agreements of alienation, is 34.8 %. Thus, the number of trade- 13 441 marks, for which the granting of the right of use under a license agreement and a franchise 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 contract registered in relation to registered dispositions under a contract of alienation of the exclusive right, still is almost two times bigger.

It should be noted that in 2019 as compared clusive rights to trademarks under a license to 2018, the number of registered alienations agreement/franchise contract decreased. of the exclusive right to trademarks increased Nevertheless, it is higher than in 2017 (see insignificantly (1.85 %) (see Figure 16). Tables 1.48 и 1.49 of Annex 1 to the Report).

As before, the prevailing method of disposing In 2019, the number of registered disposi- exclusive right is the license and concession. tions under a license agreement/franchise contract in respect of trademarks of foreign Tables 1.48 and 1.49 of Annex 1 to the Report rightholders decreased by 8.8 % as compared give the data on the affiliation of the parties to 2018 but is 3.2 % higher than in 2017. On the to the contracts to Russian and foreign per- contrary, the activity of Russian rightholders sons and on the number of registered con- is continuing to increase. In 2018, the num- tracts and the number of trademarks in the ber of registered dispositions under a license contracts. agreement/franchise contract in respect of trademarks of Russian rightholders increased In 2019 as compared to 2018, a steady increase by 122.3 % as compared to 2018 (see Figure 18). in the number of registered dispositions of exclusive right to trademarks under a license agreement and a franchise contract is observed. Figure 18 The overall growth of registered transfers Number of dispositions of exclusive right exceeded the amount of the last year and to trademarks under a license agreement/ constituted 9.3 %. The number of trademarks, franchise contract depending on entity in in which respect a contracted disposition was 2015–2019 registered, increased significantly as compared to 2018 (see Figure 17). At the same 11 309 time, the number of registered dispositions under a franchise contract in 2019 amounted to 114.5 % as compared to 2018. But the 9 244 number of registered dispositions slightly de- 8 620 creased in 2019 as compared to 2018 (128.3 %). 6 940 Against the background of slight decline in the 6 552 number of registered dispositions under the license agreement in 2018 compared to 2017 955 975 1000 (2.5 %), the number of registered orders under the license agreement in 2019 increased 884 912 by 22.5 %. 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 As compared to 2018, the activity of foreign Russian rightholders rightholders in the area of disposition of ex- Foreign rightholders Figure 19 According to the provisions of paragraph 3 of Dynamics of registration of pledge of Article 1232 of the Code, the composition of exclusive right in 2015–2019 documents submitted for state registration 22 of a contracted disposition of exclusive right may include one application signed by two 829 parties or an application signed by one party with the attached agreement. 750 756 689 In 2019, the increase of receipt of applications signed by two parties to the contract continued. 362 137 In 2018, for the purpose of state registration 58 of contracted disposition of exclusive right, 98 104 72 2908 applications were received without attaching any other supporting document,

2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 which constituted 9.8 % of the total number of considered applications. In absolute terms number of trademarks it is 1023 more than in 2018 and 4.8 times more number of pledges than in 2016.

The number of registered transfers of exclusive right to means of individualization There is a reduction in the number of regis- (trademarks, service marks, appellations of tered pledges including trademark pledges, origin) without a contract with a rightholder in 2018, to the level of 2017 (see Figure 19). as well as the number of means of individualization in respect of which the transfers were Nevertheless, as compared to the previous registered decreased in 2019 as compared to period, there is a steady positive trend in the 2015–2018 (see Figure 20). total number of registered dispositions in respect of trademarks under a contract. 1.7.3. State registration of contracted disposition of exclusive right to the objects of As compared to 2018, the number of regis- intellectual property and transfer of exclu- tered dispositions increased by 16.6 %. The sive right to computer programs, databases number of trademarks in respect of which and topographies of integrated circuits (CPs, the dispositions were registered increased DBs, TICs) without a contract by 2.5 %. In 2019 the number of applications for registration of dispositions of exclusive right to CPs, DBs and TICs under a contract of alienation was relatively unchanged compared to 2018 (438 in 2018 and 440 in 2019). Figure 20 At the same time it is worth mentioning that Dynamics of registration of transfer of the number of objects included in the filed exclusive right to trademarks without a con- applications increased by 37 % as compared tract with a rightholder in 2015–2019 to 2018. This is due to the fact that if several objects are included into the same appli- 2 474 cation, the fee for the applicant should be 2 376 significantly lower.

1 855 1 801 In the reported period, the number of applications for registration of transfer of exclusive right to CPs, DBs and TICs without a contract 1 355 increased by 17.6 %. 829 709 723 690 In 2019, in total the number of completely con- 578 sidered applications (with a decision sent to the applicant) increased by 0.8 % as compared 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 to 2018. Total number of means of individualization Transfers registered Figure 21 Number of registered dispositions of exclusive right to computer programs, databases and topographies of integrated circuits under a contract and transfer of exclusive 23 right to the said objects without a contract in 2015–2019

Contracts of alien- Transfer of right to ation of rights to License agree- CPs, DBs and TICs CPs, DBs and TICs ments on TICs without a contract

2015 305 0 58 2016 347 5 58 2017 404 23 86 2018 444 7 43

2019 435 14 43 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

At the same time in 2019 there is a slight de- 1.8. crease of the number of registered alienations of exclusive right to CPs, DBs and TICs AMENDMENTS TO THE STATE REGISTERS, by 2.0 % as compared to 2018. The number RENEWAL, CESSATION, RESTORATION OF of registrations of transfer of exclusive right LEGAL PROTECTION OF OBJECTS OF IN- to CPs, DBs and TICs without a contract was TELLECTUAL PROPERTY, OPEN LICENSES, relatively unchanged. PUBLICATION OF COURT DECISIONS

The number of applications that were with- Trademarks and service marks drawn by applicants or for which state registration was refused, increased by 8.7 % (from Trademark exclusive right renewal 23 to 25 applications). As compared to the previous two years, in the The statistics of registered dispositions of reported year the number of satisfied appli- exclusive right to CPs, DBs and TICs under a cations for trademark exclusive right renewal contract and transfers of exclusive right to decreased and was the same as in 2016 (see the said objects without a contract is given Figure 22). The decrease was caused by the in Table 1.50 of Annex 1 to the Report and in reduction of the number of filed applications. Figure 21. The statistical data is given in Table 1.51 of An- nex 1 to the Report.

Figure 22 Dynamics of satisfied applications for trademark exclusive right renewal in 2015–2019

Total Russian Foreign number rightholders rightholders

2015 13 929 8 372 5 557 2016 16 360 10 140 6 220 2017 17 503 10 558 6 945 2018 17 777 10 726 7 051

2019 16 383 10 591 5 792 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Figure 23 In total in 2019, 5,371 requests for changes in Dynamics of termination and restoration the state registers and granted patents were of legal protection of objects of patent received. 24 law in 2015–2019 5,168 requests were satisfied. Changes were 37 153 37 210 made to the relevant state registers, and published in the official bulletin of Rospatent. 35 989 35 400 34 876 By the results of 2019, 3,850 changes were made to the State Register of Inventions of the Russian Federation, 844 changes were made to the State Register of Utility Models 4 321 4 022 3 927 of the Russian Federation, 474 changes were 4 021 made to the State Register of Industrial De- 3 520 signs of the Russian Federation.

2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Renewal, termination, restoration of legal Number of patents for inventions, utility models protection of inventions, utility models, in- and industrial designs that were early terminated dustrial designs because of non-payment of patent maintenance fee within the stipulated time frame or on request of a patentholder The dynamics of the provision of public ser- Number of requests for restoration of patents for inventions, utility models and industrial designs vices for renewal, termination and restoration of legal protection of the objects of the patent law is given in Figures 23 and 24.

In 2019, 7 applications for renewal of certif- As of today, there is a relative stability in re- icates of exclusive right to AOs (six of them spect of the dynamics of the quantitative from Russian rightholders and 1 of them from indicator regarding early termination of pat- a foreign rightholder) were satisfied. ents and its annual value is within the average statistical value for the period of monitoring. Amendments to the State Register of Trade- That can be explained by the stability of the marks and Service Marks of the Russian intellectual property market, in which the Federation, to the State Register of Appel- rightholder takes into account inefficiency lations of Origin of the Russian Federation, of a technical solution protected by a patent to the List of Well-Known Trademarks in and removes it from economic circulation by the Russian Federation, as well as to the terminating payment of patent maintainance certificates fees.

The ratio of satisfied applications filed by A slight decrease in the dynamics of resto- Russian rightholders in relation to applica- ration of patents for objects of patent law is tions filed by foreign rightholders is 78 % and explained by the following. 22 % of the total number of filed applications, respectively (see Table 1.52 of Annex 1 to the First of all, it is caused by the changes in the Report). system of charging design patent maintenance fees regarding industrial designs with The data on early termination of legal pro- the fixed date of issue later than January 1, tection upon a request of any person due to 2015 (the design patent maintenance fee is cessation of juridical entity – rightholder or paid once in five years). This leads to a de- registration of cessation of citizen’s activity crease of the amount of obligatory design as an individual entrepreneur – rightholder is patent maintenance fees (as the fees are paid given in Table 1.52 of Annex 1 to the Report. ones in five years but not in one year). Be- cause of this the number of early terminations The data on early termination of legal protec- of patents and, as the result, of their further tion in case of rightholder’s waiver of right is restorations decreased. given in Table 1.53 of Annex 1 to the Report. Secondly, the mentioned dynamics is ex- Inventions, utility models, industrial designs plained by a significant amount of patent restoration fees, especially in the last years Amendments to the State Registers of Inven- of their validity including fees for beneficiaries tions, Utility Models, Industrial Designs of the of social policies (there are no reductions in Russian Federation the fee for this legal action). For example, the fee for restoration of a pat- Figure 24 ent to an invention in the 18th year of it’s ac- Dynamics of renewal of legal protection tivity is 46700 rubles which is expensive for of objects of patent law in 2015–2019 most individuals. 25 638 564 Renewal of legal protection of patents in the field of pharmaceuticals, pesticides and agrochemicals mostly relates to activity of 371 non-residents and depends on import sub- 260 stitution policy in the domestic market. Thus, 292 the change of the indicator of renewal of legal protection of inventions and patents certifying the exclusive right in the reported year 36 41 15 12 corresponds to this tendency and it’s growth will take place with the development of the 18 domestic market. 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

The data on the renewal of legal protection Considered requests and applications for Exten- of industrial designs and patents certifying sion of the term of validity of exclusive right to invention and a patent certifying such right the exclusive right tends to grow significantly Considered requests and applications for Exten- because of the changes to the legislative base sion of the term of validity of a patent to industrial that imply changes to design patent renewal design and a patent certifying such right terms and prescribe that renewal of a patent is carried every five years of its activity.

Open license In 2019, Rospatent received 1,115 applications In 2019, 111 applications on the possibility of for amendments to the Register of Comput- granting a right to use an invention, utility er Programs, the Register of Databases, and model or industrial design (open license) the Register of Topographies of Integrated were received. Circuits which is 29.4 % more than was filed in 2017 (862 applications). 104 applications were published. The changes to corresponding register were The number of applications that were re- made in respect of 1145 requests, and in received and published in 2015–2019 was stable. spect of 33 requests the changes to corre- Over the last five years, there has not been sponding register were refused. a large number of applications on an open license regarding objects of the patent law (see Figure 25).

Publication of court decisions on infringement of exclusive rights to patents Figure 25 Dynamics of received and published In 2019, 6 applications of patentholders with statements on grant of an open license a request to publish a court decision on in- in 2015–2019 fringement of their rights were received. 111 6 court decisions received in 2019 and en- 104 106 108 tered into force were published. 104 The published court decisions relate to in- 95 91 fringement of rights of 5 inventions and 1 in- 89 dustrial design. 82 80

Computer programs, databases, topographies of integrated circuits 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

Amendments to the Registers of Computer Applications on grant of an open license received Programs, Databases, Topographies of Inte- Statements on grant of an open license grated Circuits published 1.9. services is usually higher that 90 %. This indicates the demand for electronic services provided PROVISION OF PUBLIC SERVICES IN at Rospatent website, the interface of which is 26 ELECTRONIC FORM developed taking into account the peculiarities of the state services in the sphere of legal pro- In 2019, the number of applications for public tection of intellectual property. services (hereinafter referred to as requests) submitted to Rospatent in electronic form, in- In response to this tendency, Rospatent is plan- creased as compared to 2018 from 70673 to ning to continue development of electronic 101470. The maximum increase was recorded in services at its official website and to expand the the 4th quarter of 2019–48.4 % of total number of number of state services that are provided at applications (38.1 % for the same period in 2018). this website as well as to introduce new servic- The number of applications filed to Rospatent in es. In 2019, work on developing new Rospatent total and particularly in electronic form as well information system “Single channel interaction as the proportion of electronic applications of of Rospatent with interested parties in the de- the total for all state services is showed in Annex livery of state services, services provided in 1 to the Report. The data on the number and accordance with international treatments and the share of electronic applications show that agreements, publication of publicly accessible electronic filing is more popular within the state information on the activity in the sphere of reg- services for which filing at Rospatent official istration and legal protection of objects of in- website is provided. Currently, Rospatent official tellectual property in the format of open data”. website allows to file applications for registration of all objects of intellectual property except It’s worth mentioning that there is a many- for topographies of integrated circuits. Statistics fold growth in the number of applications on the numbers of electronic applications for filed through the Public Services Portal of state registration of the objects of intellectual the Russian Federation hereinafter referred property is shown in Figure 26. It’s worth men- to as “EPGU”, for the state services that are tioning that the proportion of requests filed among the most popular and are not provided at the official website of the total amount of at Rospatent official website. Relevant data electronic applications for the mentioned state are presented in the Figure 27.

Figure 26 Number of electronic applications (EA) and the share of electronic applications in the total amount of applications for the services most in demand among participants of electronic interaction in 2018–2019

Share of EAs of Share of the total number total number of applications, % of 2019, %

Share of applications filed through the official Number of Number of web-site of total EAs EAs amount of EAs,%

2018 2019

Inventions 15 073 39,71 17 271 48,64 98,71

Utility Models 2 143 21,99 2 938 28,99 92,55

Industrial 2 545 43,08 3 485 57,62 97,53 designs 22,38 % Trademarks 41 813 71,16 55 722 80,98 98,86 28,99 % and AOs CPs, BDs ans 2 612 14,54 4 660 22,38 79,36 48,64 % TICs 57,62 % Total: 64 186 49,251 84 076 59,492 97,47 80,98 %

1 There were 130,335 applications for these state services received in 2 There were 141,330 applications for these state services received in 2018 in total. 2019 in total. The dynamics of electronic filing illustrates ⁕⁕ filing applications for industrial designs, the demand for this way of filing from appli- computer programs and databases directly cants. The increase of the number of elec- via the service; tronic requests has been achieved through ⁕⁕ filing applications for industrial designs ac- 27 implementation of the following organization- cording to the Hague agreement; al, technical and information measures taken ⁕⁕ working on draft applications and viewing by Rospatent and FIPS. filed applications (for applications filed via the service); 1. Development of electronic interaction ⁕⁕ automatic registration of received corre- services spondence signed with digital signatures concerning applications for inventions and As at the end of 2019, formation and filing ap- utility models (if they were filed on paper or plications for state registration of inventions, via PatDoc digital service), trademarks, ap- utility models, industrial designs, trademarks, pellations of origin or for grant of exclusive appellations of origin, computer programs and right to appellations of origin registered databases, obtaining information on the sta- earlier (if they were filed on paper) and ap- tus of the proceedings on these applications, plications for industrial designs, computer delivering documents on the result of the programs and databases that were filed via state services and filing pre-trial (extrajudicial) updated version of service. appeals against decisions and acts (inaction) of Rospatent, FIPS and their officials are pro- Information on conditions and terms of provided at Rospatent website. State services vision of Rospatent state services, including for the state registration of objects of intel- electronic services, is published at Rospatent lectual property as well as post-registration and FIPS websites and EPGU. services are provided via EPGU. In addition to these actions, charging fees for the state 2. In 2019, 8 thematic meetings with appli- services that are provided in electronic form cants were held. These are: and quality assessment of provision of state ⁕⁕ 2 meetings on electronic filing of applica- services are available via EPGU. tions for industrial designs, computer programs and databases via personal account. Also, the new version of “Personal Cabinet” 41 people took part in it and 30 people service is available since January 14,2019. Its joined it via videoconferencing; functionality is supplemented with the fol- ⁕⁕ 6 meetings on electronic filing of applica- lowing options: tions for inventions, utility models, trade-

Figure 27 Filing electronic applications for state services in 2018–2019

2018 2019 2018 2019 Number of EAs Share of EAs, % State registration of contracted disposition of exclusive 1754 5444 5,91 15,85 right to invention, utility model, industrial design, trademark, service mark, registered topography of integrated circuit, computer program, database Restoration of a patent for invention, utility model or 61 132 1,33 2,77 industrial design Renewal of the exclusive right to trademark, service mark 2233 5670 12,81 32,56 Amendments to the State Registers of Inventions, Utility 153 581 2,30 11,00 models, Industrial designs of the Russian Federation, as well as to patents Amendments to the State Registers of Trademarks and 1971 4712 9,49 21,37 Service Marks, Appellations of Origin of the Russian Federation, to the Llist of Well-known Trademarks in the Russian Federation, as well as to certificates marks, appellations of origin or grant of services market in the Russian Federation are exclusive right to appellations of origin priority Rospatent courses of action. A citi- registered earlier via AWS “Registrar”. 214 zen who obtained status of patent attorney 28 people took part in it and 49 people joined as provided for by law and who carries out it via videoconferencing. activities in the sphere of legal protection of the results of intellectual activity and means Also, 5 educational organizations and 2 sci- of individualization, their juridical protection, entific and technological libraries took part obtaining exclusive right to the results of in- in the meetings via videoconferencing. tellectual activity and means of individualization and disposition of exclusive right is 3. Training video courses and programs were deemed to be a patent attorney. published at FIPS website. Rospatent carries out certification and regis- These are video materials on themes “Filing tration of patent attorneys, issuance of regis- an application for inventions via AWS “Reg- tration certificates to them, as well as control istrar” (2794 views)”The example of filing an over patent attorneys’ compliance with the application for registration of word a trade- requirements stipulated by the legislation of mark” (12,525 views), “The example of filing an the Russian Federation. application for an appellation of origin” (676 views) and “Filing an application for invention 1.10.1. Maintaining the Register of patent at- (via PatDoc Service” (6,195 views). torneys of the Russian Federation

4. FIPS technical support service considers As of January 1, 2020, 2,150 patent attorneys requests from users of the electronic ser- were registered in the Register. 46 of them vices. The registration and consideration of were excluded from the Register due to the requests are made on working days. Sending circumstances stipulated by Federal Law No. requests is available 24/7 at the email address: 316-FZ of December 30, 2008 “On Patent [email protected]. In 2019, 4,971 requests Attorneys” hereinafter referred to as the concerning work with electronic services and Law No. 316-FZ of December 30, 2008 (these setting up workplaces were considered. grounds are applying for a public service job or a job at a Rospatent subordinate organ- 5. Individual training is delivered in VPTB ization as well as court decision stipulating computer hall. exclusion a patent attorney from the Register of Patent Attorneys of the Russian Federation Any interested person can obtain necessary hereinafter referred to as the Register. knowledge and practical experience in preparation of electronic application documents: As of December 31, 2019, the number of acting ⁕⁕ for grant of a patent for an invention, utility patent attorneys of the Russian Federation model, industrial design; was 2,004 persons. ⁕⁕ for registration of a trademark, appellation of origin, grant of an exclusive right to ap- Long-standing practice of maintaining the pellation of origin registered earlier; Register (from July 1, 1993) illustrates the ⁕⁕ for registration of computer programs and steady tendency of increase of the number databases. of patent attorneys of the Russian Federation. Nevertheless, some regions show rather small The training is free and it’s conducted by ap- growth of the number of patent attorneys pointment. The number of employees en- (see Table 1.57 of Annex 1 to the Report) and gaged in training was increased. highly disproportionate distribution among the federal districts (see Table 1.56 of Annex 1 to the Report). This can’t satisfy the inventors’ demand for accessible and high-quality patent attorneys’ services. 1.10 Patent attorneys are mainly concentrated in CERTIFICATION AND REGISTRATION OF Moscow (1,241) and St. Petersburg (308) – almost PATENT ATTORNEYS OF THE RUSSIAN three quarters (72 %) of the total number of FEDERATION registered patent attorneys of the Russian Fed- eration. In Moscow the number of patent at- The expansion of the number of patent attorneys is four times higher than in St. Peters- torneys of the Russian Federation and de- burg. It’s worth mentioning that the number of velopment of competitive patent attorneys’ patent attorneys in the closest regions, namely Figure 28 Data on distribution of patent attorneys by federal districts of the Russian Feder- ation (total for 1993–2019) 29

3,2 %

share of the 1,2 % number of number of pat- patent attor- ent attorneys neys of the total, % 2,3 %

0,2 Far Eastern 25 1,2 Volga 158 7,5 Northwestern 333 15,8 3,2 % North Caucasian 4 0,2 Siberian 68 3,2 7,5 % Ural 68 3,2 15,8 % Central 1 399 66,5 Southern 49 2,3 66,5 %

in Moscow Region (95 people) and Leningrad 1 from Novosibirsk Region, 4 from Tomsk Re- Region (8 people) is relatively 13 and 38,5 times gion, 3 from Sverdlovsk Region, 2 from Krasno- smaller than in Moscow and St. Petersburg. yarsk Region and 1 candidate either from Perm Region, Irkutsk Region, Chelyabinsk Region and There are no patent attorneys or three or the Republic of Tatarstan. less of them in 49 districts of the Russian Fed- eration (60 % of total number of districts). 23 people in 28 specializations were certified There are no patent attorneys in 22 regions. as the result of the visiting exam session. Also, highly unsatisfactory situation is noted in Far Eastern District (1 patent attorney was In 2019, 339 changes to the information on registered in Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) and registered patent attorneys contained in the in North Caucasian Federal District (4 patent Registry were made upon requests of patent attorneys). In Siberian Federal District the attorneys (in the previous year 291 changes number of patent attorneys is maintained ex- were made) (see Figure 29). clusively by patent attorneys from Novosibirsk and Tomsk Regions (68 patent attorneys). Timely updating the information on patent attorneys in the Registry is the duty of patent The information on distribution of patent attorneys as well as Rospatent function that attorneys among the federal districts (from provides the interested parties with reliable 1993 to 2019 in total) is illustrated in Figure 28.

In order to provide favorable conditions for Figure 29 passing the procedure of obtaining the status of Dynamics of filing applications for certi- patent attorney, Rospatent carried out visiting fication in 2013–2019 regional exam session for evaluating candidates for certification as patent attorneys in Novo- sibirsk on the basis of Novosibirsk Division of 378 the Federal Institution of Intellectual Property.

324 The demand for this system is illustrated by 324 the activity of candidates who filed 29 applications for certification as patent attorneys 269 in 37 specializations which is just a little lower than total amount of candidates who were 251 236 allowed to participate in exams in 2019. 222

The distribution of candidates who participated in the visiting exam session is the following: 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Figure 30 in certification or refuse of certification as Data on participation in qualification a patent attorney through qualification ex- exams in 2013–2019 ams. 30 344 In order to provide for self-study pre-exam training of patent attorney candidates, Rospatent updated the examples of practical and situational tasks related to the written 309 part of the qualification exam in different 243 227 specializations at Rospatent website in 2019. For the first time, examples of questions for 199 228 195 213 computer testing were published. 173 168 184 183 The qualification exam for certification of 164 159 patent attorney candidates and patent at- 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 torneys wishing to expand their specialization is conducted in five specializations: “Inven- Number of administered exams (specializations) tions and utility models”, “Industrial designs”, Number of persons who took the exams “Trademarks and service marks”, “Appellations of origin”, “Computer programs, databases, topographies of integrated circuits”.

information on patent attorneys that can be In 2019, Rospatent led three exam sessions on used for searching of high-quality services of the basis of Federal Institution of Intellectual a patent attorney. Property in Moscow: March 11–15, May 20–24, October, 28 – November, 1, and one visiting 1.10.2. Activity of Rospatent Qualification exam session on basis of Novosibirsk Division Commission for certification of patent at- of Federal Institution of Intellectual Property torneys on November 6–7.

Activity of Rospatent Qualification Commis- In 2019, applications for certification as a pat- sion on certification of patent attorneys is ent attorney, were filed by 378 candidates for regulated by Order of the Ministry of Eco- 430 specializations. Dynamics of filing applica- nomic Development of the Russian Federa- tions for certifying as patent attorneys from tion No. 617 of September 29, 2018 registered 2013 is illustrated in Figure 30. Candidates are by the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Fed- allowed to file applications for certifying no eration on December, 26, 2016 No. 44962). more than in two specializations.

The authority of the Qualification Commis- As the result of the exam sessions, 309 can- sion relates to i. a. checking patent attorney didates were certified as patent attorneys candidates’ documents, preparation of and in 331 specializations by the decisions of the carrying out exam sessions, taking decisions Qualification Commission (see Figure 31).

Figure 31 Data on the results of certification of patent attorney candidates and patent attorneys wishing to expand their specialization, in 2013–2019

Took Certification examination Certified Refused

2013 164 119 45 2014 192 134 59 2015 183 114 69 2016 159 92 67 2017 213 132 67 2018 228 139 89

2019 247 163 84 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 52 candidates in 54 specializations were not Figure 32 admitted to participate in the exams by the Dynamics of registration of patent decisions of Qualification Commission, be- attorneys in 2007-2019 cause as the result of consideration of the 31 documents filed by the candidates lack of compliance with the requirements to patent attorneys provided by parts 2 and 3 of Article 2 150 2 and part 13 of Article 6 of the Federal Law of December 30, 2008 No 316-FZ was identified.

79 of 309 candidates in 91 specializations were 2 042 not able to participate in the exams for a good course. 1 941

247 candidates in 271 specializations took the 1 848 exams. 1 791 As the result of the exam sessions held in 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2019, 163 candidates in 176 specializations were certified as patent attorneys of the Russian Federation by the decisions of Qual- by Rospatent. 46 of them were excluded from ification Commission, i. a.: the Registry on the grounds provided by Ar- ⁕⁕ 128 candidates in 139 specializations ob- ticle 8 of the Federal Law of December 30, tained status of a patent attorney for the 2008 No 316-FZ. Thus, there were 2104 acting first time; patent attorneys as of December 31, 2019 (see ⁕⁕ 35 candidates who were earlier registered Figure 33). as patent attorneys and wished to expand their activity to new specialization obtained 1.10.3. Activity of the Appeals Commission the status in 38 specializations. of Rospatent

Statistics on certification of patent attorneys In the reported period, the Appeals Commis- from 2013 is illustrated in Figure 31. sion of Rospatent organized 3 meetings–on June 18, 2019, September 2, 2019, and Decem- From the date of registration as a patent at- ber 24, 2019 at which 24 complaints of patent torney in the Registry, a person obtains the attorney candidates and patent attorneys status of a patent attorney in a relevant spe- wishing to expand their field of activity within cialization. As of the period up to January 1, the established specialties, against the de- 2020, 2150 patent attorneys were registered cisions of the Qualification Commission of

Figure 33 Dynamics of complaints to the Appeals Commission in 2010-2019

Complaints against Complaints Complaints the decisions of against the considered, the Qualification actions of patent total Commission attorneys

2010 26 23 3 2011 25 21 4 2012 21 15 6 2013 15 13 2 2014 15 15 0 2015 14 11 3 2016 27 23 4 2017 30 27 3 2018 31 28 3 2019 24 24 0 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Figure 34 1.11. Dynamics of complaints to the Appeals Commission in 2010–2019 CONSIDERATION OF ADMINISTRATIVE 32 DISPUTES RELATED TO LEGAL 2017 2018 2019 PROTECTION OF THE RESULTS OF INTELLECTUAL ACTIVITY AND MEANS OF INDIVIDUALIZATION Inventions 243 225 259 In 2019, Rospatent with the assistance of FIPS Utility models 203 181 191 considered received appeals and requests aimed at protecting intellectual property Industrial designs 60 65 94 rights, as well as requests for recognizing a Trademarks 1 361 1 623 1 787 trademark or a designation used as a trademark as a well-known trademark, which are Appellations of origin 7 40 10 submitted to Rospatent in accordance with the provisions of the current legislation. Total 1 874 2 134 2 341

The data on the number of appeals and requests that were received by Rospatent in 2017–2019 and related to the results of intellectual activity and means of individualization are given in Figure 34.

As follows from the data in Figure 34, the number of appeals and requests received by Rospatent increased slightly in 2019 as compared to 2018 (~ by 9.7 %) which corresponds to the dynamics of this data in compared pe- riods. Regular dynamics seen from the Figure concerns all types of IP objects. 2017 2018 2019 Measures to provide for decrease in terms of consideration of appeals related to the Rospatent were considered. This is less than means of individualization as well as objects of in 2017 and 2018. patent law taken by Rospatent are adequate to the dymanics of receives appeals as well Unlike 2017 and 2018, when the vast majority as demand of the market. of complaints was filed against the decisions of the Qualification Commission of Rospatent Taking into account the increase in the num- related to specialty “Trademark and Service ber of appeals and requests received by Ro- Marks”, in 2019 only 9 complaints against men- spatent, the average time limit of consider- tioned decisions were filed while 10 complaints ation of such appeals and requests in 2019 related to specialization “Inventions and Utility constituted 4 months regarding means of Models”. 1 of 20 considered complaints related individualization and 4,8 months regarding to specialization “Industrial Designs”. patent law objects. Data on the average time limit of consideration of appeals in 2018 and 8 complaints against decisions of the Quali- 2019 is given in Figure 35. fication Commission of Rospatent were satisfied, 12 complaints were denied. Data on the number of appeals and requests received by Rospatent and decisions taken 1 of 4 complaints against decisions of the thereon by Rospatent is given in Figure 36. Qualification Commission of Rospatent to refuse admission to qualification exams was It follows from Figure 36 that the total number satisfied, 3 complaints were denied. of decisions of Rospatent taken on the results of consideration of appeals and requests in- In 2019 no complaints against the actions of creased as compared to 2018 by ~ 43,9 %. patent attorneys were considered. In 2019, 1,254 decisions on appeals to grant The number of complaints considered by the of legal protection were taken, while in 2018 Qualification Commission of Rospatent from there were taken 928 of them. Thus, there is 2010 to 2019 is illustrated in Figure 33. a dynamics of growth in the number of solved disputes in 2019 as compared with 2018 (in- Figure 35 crease by 35.1 %). Average terms for considering appeals and requests (average time limits for con There is an increase in the number of consid- sidering appeals and requests) 33 ered appeals regarding all types of IP objects. In 2019, 918 decisions were taken on appeals 4,8 to grant of legal protection, that is 49.5 % higher as compared with 2018. 4,6 Such a tendency is determined by Rospatent activity to reduce the time limits of consideration of disputes. 4,0

The number of decisions taken by Rospatent with distribution by objects of intellectual 3,4 property is given in Table 1.58 of Annex 1 to the Report. 2018 2019

Table 1.59 of Annex 1 to the Report illustrates Regarding objects of patent law the results of consideration of appeals re- Regarding means of individualization garding different types of the results of intellectual activity and means of individualization. appeals (25 appeals in 2018) were not satisfied In 2019, 2,242 decisions were taken by the in 2019,. results of consideration of appeals and requests, of which 1111 appeals/ requests were The data on the number of considered dis- satisfied, 1131 were not satisfied. putes related to well-known trademarks is given in Table 1.60 of Annex 1 to the Report. In respect of means of individualization, in 2019 the number of both satisfied (865 com- In 2019, the number of decisions taken upon pared to 692 in 2018) and unsatisfied (827 as consideration of requests to recognize a compared to 517 in 2018) appeals increased. trademark or designation used as a trademark, as well-known trademark in the Russian In 2019, in respect of all objects of patent law Federation, increased from 16 to 24 decisions. there was an increase in both satisfied and Also, 1 decision on request against the grant unsatisfied appeals: 154 appeals related to of legal protection to well-known trademark inventions (85 appeals in 2018) and 99 ap- in the Russian Federation was taken in 2019. peals related to utility models (87 objections in 2018) were not satisfied. A similar trend is The data on the activity of the Appeals Board observed in respect of industrial designs: 41 based on the provided analysis is shown in Table 1.61 of Annex 1 to the Report.

Figure 36 Appeals and requests received by Rospatent and decisions taken thereon

Type 2018 2019 Received Decisions Received Decisions taken taken Appeals to examination decisions 1 224 928 1 370 1 254 Appeals to grant of legal protection 844 614 946 918 Requests 66 16 25 70

Total: 2 134 1 558 2 341 2 242 2 ACTIVITIES OF ROSPATENT on control and supervision in the sphere of legal protection and utilization of the results of intellectual activity of civil, military and dual use created with the federal budget funding and in the sphere of legal protection of the State interests in the course of economic and civil turnover of the R&D results of military, special and dual use 36

A. Solonovich,

Head, Department of Control, Supervision and Legal Protection of State Interests

INTRODUCTION

One of the main functions of Rospatent is the ⁕⁕ Decree of the Government of the Russian state control and supervision in the sphere Federation on recognition as no longer in of protection and utilization of the results of force normative legal acts of the Russian intellectual activity created with the federal Federation contained compulsory require- budget funding as well as legal protection of ments which are evaluated by Rospatent in the State interests in the course of economic the course of control (supervision) in the and civil law turnover of the R&D results of established sphere of activity; military, special and dual use. ⁕⁕ new structure of normative regulation in the sphere of legal protection and utiliza- A socially significant goal of control and su- tion of the results of intellectual activity pervision in the established sphere of activ- created with the federal budget funding. ity is the improvement of efficiency of R&Ds conducted with the federal budget funding in In order to develop the legal and regulatory part of creation of the results of intellectual framework for the defense of interests of the activity with a worldwide novelty, their legal Russian Federation in respect of the R&D re- protection and involvement in economic and sults, the work on preparation and conclusion civil law turnover in the interests of economic of intergovernmental agreements with foreign development of the Russian Federation. states on the mutual protection of the results of intellectual activity and enforcement of In 2019, in the framework of implementation intellectual property in the course of bilateral of the Action plan (“Roadmap”) on introduc- military-technical cooperation. tion of the “regulatory guillotine” mechanism adopted by the Prime Minister of the Russian The section of the Report presents in more Federation D. Medvedev dated May 29, 2019 detail the main results of Rospatent’s activi- No. 4714p-P36, Rospatent prepared the fol- ties on control and supervision in the estab- lowing drafts: lished sphere as well as on legal protection of the interests of the State. 2.1. ing the request of the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation; CONTROL AND SUPERVISION IN THE SPHERE OF LEGAL PROTECTION AND 23 unscheduled document audits carried out UTILIZATION OF THE RESULTS OF upon expiry of the period given to comply INTELLECTUAL ACTIVITY OF CIVIL, with orders of Rospatent and to eliminate MILITARY AND DUAL USE CREATED WITH the detected violations. THE FEDERAL BUDGET FUNDING The scheduled on-site audits were carried out 37 2.1.1. Audit of the state customers and organ- in four federal districts of the Russian Feder- izations – state contractors on R&Ds with the ation (see Table 2.1 of Annex 2 of the Report). federal budget funding The audited legal entities, including unsched- 2.1.1.1. General information on the results uled audits, are the following (see Table 2.2 of of audits Annex 2 of the Report): joint stock companies (JSC) – 38, Institutions of higher education – 9, In 2019, Rospatent carried out audits of state Federal State Budgetary Science Institutions customers and organizations – state contrac- of the Russian Academy of Science – 5, Minis- tors on R&Ds with the purpose of control and tries – 4, Federal State Unitary Enterprises – 3, supervision in the sphere of legal protection Federal State Budget Institutions – 3, Federal and utilization of the results of intellectual State Budgetary Science Institutions – 2, Fed- activity of civil, military and dual use created eral Services – 1, State Corporations – 1, Federal with the federal budget funding (hereinafter – State Institutions – 1. “established sphere of activities”). The audits were carried out in accordance with the com- 2.1.1.2. Results of audits of state customers petences set forth in the Statute adopted by Decree of the Government of the Russian In 2019, Rospatent carried out the scheduled Federation dated March 21, 2012 No. 218 “On audits of state customers (the Ministry of the Federal Service for intellectual Property”. Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, the State Corporation “Roscosmos”, the Fed- Control and supervision in the estab- eral Guard Service (information with limited lished sphere of activities is performed by access). Rospatent in accordance with Decrees of the Government of the Russian Federation dated The audit of the Ministry of Industry and Trade January 26, 2012 No. 9 “On control and super- of the Russian Federation (Department of vision in the sphere of legal protection and Pharmaceutical and Medical Industry Devel- utilization of the results of intellectual activity opment and Department of Radio Electronic of civil use created with the federal budget Industry) resulted in the following. funding, and control and supervision in the established sphere of activities in respect Under 50 state contracts of civil use (budget of state customers and organizations – state funding – 7705,42 million rubles) 163 protect- contractors on R&Ds” and April 26, 2012 No. able results of intellectual activity were cre- 402 “On control and supervision in the sphere ated, in respect of which the measures on of legal protection and utilization of the re- ensuring legal protection were taken. sults of intellectual activity of military, special and dual use created with the federal budget Under 41 state contracts on R&Ds of military, funding, as well as control and supervision in special and dual use (budget funding – 3668 the established sphere of activities in respect million rubles) 134 protectable results of in- of state customers and organizations – state tellectual activity were created, in respect of contracts on R&Ds”. which the measures on ensuring legal protection were taken. In 2019 Rospatent carried out 67 audits regarding state customers and organizations – The audit of the State Corporation “Roscos- state contractors on R&Ds, including: mos” resulted in the following.

42 scheduled on-site audits carried out in Under 19 state contracts on R&Ds of mili- accordance with the Plan of the scheduled tary, special and dual use (budget funding – audits of legal entities; 45370,97 million rubles) 148 protectable results of intellectual activity were created, in 2 unscheduled on-site audits in the sphere respect of which the measures on ensuring of civil, military, special and dual use follow- legal protection were taken. The information on the results of audits of ⁕⁕ ambiguity in designation of rightholder(s) state customers carried out in 2019 presented in respect of the created results of in- in Table 2.3 of Annex 2 to the Report. tellectual activity in the concluded state contracts on R&Ds (the State Corporation Rospatent considered internal normative “Roscosmos”); legal acts regulating the activities of state ⁕⁕ carrying out activities on registration of the customers on management of the rights of rights of the Russian Federation to the re- the Russian Federation to the results of intel- sults of intellectual activity created in the lectual activity. The analysis of the documents process of implementation of state con- 38 showed the following. tracts, which establish that the rights to the results of intellectual activity are owned by The State Corporation “Roscosmos” and the the Russian Federation or by the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation jointly with contractor (the Minis- Federation has a number of shortcomings in try of Industry and Trade of the Russian Fed- organization of work on management of the eration, the State Corporation “Roscosmos”); rights of the Russian Federation with respect ⁕⁕ carrying out the state inventory of the re- to conducting activities on registration of sults of intellectual activity (the Ministry of rights of the Russian Federation to the results Industry and Trade of the Russian Federa- of intellectual activity, which were used or tion, the State Corporation “Roscosmos”). created under state contracts, and disposal of such rights. The work is provided for by the The consideration and analysis of the reporting Rules on management of rights of the Russian documents (reports on patent researches) un- Federation to the results of intellectual activity der a number of state contracts showed that in of civil, military, special and dual use by state the course of conducting R&Ds the results of customers adopted by Decree of the Govern- intellectual activity were received, which could ment of the Russian Federation of March 22, be legally protected. Yet the State Corporation 2012 No. 233 (hereinafter – the Rules). “Roscosmos” has not carried out the activities on registration of rights to these results. The strategic documents of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation Moreover, the State Corporation “Roscos- (Department of Radio Electronic Industry) do mos” has not sent the decision on the legal not reflect the goals of managing the rights protection of the result of intellectual activity to the results of intellectual activity, the re- (in response to notification on the creation quirements to the created and used results of of a protectable result of intellectual activity) intellectual activity and the measures aimed to organizations – contractors. to achieve worldwide novelty and prior art of technical solutions, which are the basis for As a result of the audit, the violations of pro- created technologies and products. visions of the concluded state contracts were also detected in relation to: The work on legal protection of the creat- ⁕⁕ giving the notification on the creation ed results of intellectual activity is limited of the protectable results of intellectual mostly to recognition of all the information activity by organization – contractor to a contained in the developed design and tech- state customer (under state contracts of nological documentation as a know-how (the the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Russian Federation, the State Corporation Federation) or recognition of the developed “Roscosmos”); technical documentation as a scientific work ⁕⁕ sending the decision on the form of legal (the State Corporation “Roscosmos”). protection of the received result and its use under the state contract by the state As a result of the audit of state customers customer (the Ministry of Industry and the violations of the requirements of the Trade of the Russian Federation and the legislation of the Russian Federation in the State Corporation “Roscosmos”) to organ- established sphere of activities were detected ization – contractor; in relation to: ⁕⁕ sending the reports on patent researches ⁕⁕ checking of applications for granting a pat- provided for under the state contract by ent for invention or utility model creat- organization – contractor to a state cus- ed in the Russian Federation in order to tomer; determine whether there is information ⁕⁕ conducting patent researches by organi- constituting a state secret (the Ministry zations – contractors (under the state con- of Industry and Trade of the Russian Fed- tracts of the Ministry of Industry and Trade eration); of the Russian Federation); ⁕⁕ implementing the responsibility to carry ⁕⁕ In respect of providing a state customer out the state inventory of the results of with information necessary for state in- intellectual activity (under the state con- ventory – 131 results of intellectual activity tracts of the Ministry of Industry and Trade in 19 organizations. of the Russian Federation and the State ⁕⁕ Violations of conditions of state contracts Corporation “Roscosmos”). in terms of notification of a state customer by a contractor on the creation of the Following the results of audits of state cus- protected results of intellectual activity – in tomers, the acts of audits were drawn up and 8 organizations. 39 the orders on elimination of detected viola- ⁕⁕ Violations of the introduction of trade tions were issued. secret regime in respect of the created results of intellectual activity – in 6 organ- 2.1.1.3. Results of audits of organizations – izations. contractors ⁕⁕ Violations related to an agreement with a state customer on the use of the prior In the course of audits of organizations – con- intellectual property owned by the contractors 544 state contracts (agreements) on tractor or third person – in 4 organizations. R&Ds of civil, military, special and dual use ⁕⁕ Violations related to remuneration for cre- were considered. ation of the protected result of intellectual activity – in 7 organizations. 567 violations of the compulsory require- ⁕⁕ Violations related to registration of an ex- ments of the legislation in the established clusive right to the created computer pro- sphere of activities were detected grams and databases (ensuring of acquisition of such right from the third person for The selection of the state contracts (agree- its transfer to the Russian Federation) – in ments) for the audit was made mainly accord- 5 organizations. ing to the criterion of expected effectiveness ⁕⁕ Violations related to conclusion of license of R&Ds in terms of the results of intellectual agreements between organizations and activity. state customers on the right to use the results of intellectual activity, the rights to Rospatent carried out 30 scheduled on-site which are owned by the Russian Federation, audits of organizations – contractors on R&Ds during the implementation of contracts in of military, special and dual use. the framework of military-technical cooperation and international economic activ- During the mentioned audits Rospatent con- ities in respect of the controlled produc- sidered 205 state contracts with the total tion – in 3 organizations. amount of funding of 264,524 billion rubles ⁕⁕ Violations of provisions of the concluded from the federal budget. license agreements on the right to use the results of intellectual activity, the rights to The organizations – contractors registered which are owned by the Russian Federa- the rights to 76 inventions, 28 utility models, tion – in 3 organizations. 3 industrial designs, 44 computer programs, ⁕⁕ Violations related to allocation of rights to 5 databases, 51 topographies of integrated the results of intellectual activity in agree- circuits, 310 know-hows in respect to 518 re- ments with co-contractor – in 3 organiza- sults of intellectual activity under the state tions. contracts considered by Rospatent. ⁕⁕ Violations related to patent researches: •• patent researches were not conducted – The audits resulted in 29 orders on elimina- in 12 organizations; tion of detected violations issued to organi- •• reports on patent researches do not zations – contractors. comply with GOST R 15.011–96 – in 3 organizations. The following violations were detected. ⁕⁕ In respect of securing the rights of 13 cre- Besides, Rospatent detected the facts of ated results of intellectual activity (7 inven- non-action on registration of rights to 15 tions, 1 utility model, 5 computer programs) results of intellectual activity (8 inventions. in 5 organizations. The securement of rights 3 computer programs, 2 databases, 1 utility to the results of intellectual activity was model, 1 know-how) in accordance with the made with the violation of the legislation established procedure – in 7 organizations. of the Russian Federation and conditions of state contracts. In 2019, Rospatent carried out 33 unscheduled Therefore, the ultimate goal of R&Ds was not on-site audits of organizations – contractors achieved, the rights to the created results of on R&Ds of civil use. intellectual activity were not involved in the economic and civil law turnover. During the mentioned audits, Rospatent considered 339 state contracts (agreements) with One of the reasons for not taking actions to the total amount of funding of 29,872 billion conclude license agreements is that industrial rubles from the federal budget. partners are short of capacity and equipment for delivery of respective products. 40 The organizations – contractors registered the rights to 253 inventions, 89 utility models, These circumstances are a prerequisite for 2 industrial designs, 133 computer programs, the necessary adjustment of the procedure 6 databases, 8 topographies of integrated for granting subsidies on conducting R&Ds in circuits, 150 know-hows in respect to 641 re- terms of attracting extrabudgetary funds of sults of intellectual activity under the state industrial partners. contracts considered by Rospatent. In 2019, 18 administrative offence reports The following violations were detected. were issued to 11 organizations – contractors, ⁕⁕ In respect of providing information for who did not follow the orders of Rospatent the state inventory (its updating) of the on elimination of detected violations and did received results of intellectual activity: the not provide the documents on its fulfillment information on 402 of 641 created results in due time. of intellectual activity was not entered into the Unified state information system As a result, 11 organizations – contractors (infor inventory of R&Ds of civil use. It repre- cluding executive officers of the organiza- sents 65,5 % of total number of the results tions – contractors) were brought to admin- of intellectual activity created under the istrative liability in accordance with part 1 of audited R&Ds – in 20 organizations. Article 19.5 and Article 19.7 of the Administra- ⁕⁕ In respect of notification of the state cus- tive Offence Code of the Russian Federation tomer by organization – contractor on early in the form of administrative fines for a total termination of the legal protection (validity amount of 80,3 thousands rubles. of a patent of the Russian Federation, obtained in the name of organization – con- In the result of implementation of control tractor) on 17 results of intellectual activity – and supervision activities Rospatent took the in 7 organizations. necessary measures to end violations of the ⁕⁕ In respect of misappropriation of rights to legislation of the Russian Federation in the 27 results of intellectual activity (4,2 % of established sphere of activities and to: total number of the results of intellectual ⁕⁕ carry out the state inventory of the results activity created under audited R&Ds) – in of intellectual activity; 5 organizations. ⁕⁕ ensure legal protection of the results of ⁕⁕ In respect of non-fulfillment of conditions intellectual activity; for granting subsidies in terms of achieving ⁕⁕ registration of rights to the results of in- performance indicators of R&Ds on crea- tellectual activity in accordance with the tion of protectable results of intellectual legislation and terms of the state contracts activity, its legal protection and involve- (agreements); ment of rights to such results in economic ⁕⁕ pay the author’s remunerations; and civil law turnover for creation of inno- ⁕⁕ introduce a trade secret regime in respect vation products – in 6 organizations. of the created results of intellectual ac- ⁕⁕ In respect of realization of the right of au- tivity in accordance with the established thor to remuneration for creation of the procedure. service results of intellectual activity.

The audits carried out in 2019 showed that the level of practical use of the results of intellectual activity remains low.

The compliance with the terms of contracts was not ensured in terms of introduction into production (including conclusion of license agreement with industrial partners) in respect of 239 created results of intellectual activity. 2.2. Decrees of the Government of the Russian Federation dated February 26, 2002 No. 131 LEGAL PROTECTION OF THE STATE INTER- “On the state inventory of the R&D results ESTS IN THE COURSE OF ECONOMIC AND of military, special and dual use” and dated CIVIL LAW TURNOVER OF THE R&D RESULTS March 21, 2012 No. 218 “On the Federal Service OF MILITARY, SPECIAL AND DUAL USE for Intellectual Property”.

2.2.1. Improvement of normative legal reg- The information on the number of the R&D ulation results of military, special and dual use, reg- 41 istered in the Unified registry (hereinafter – Based on the Action plan (“Roadmap”) on im- “inventory object”), is shown in the Table 2.4 plementation of “regulatory guillotine” mech- of Annex 2 to the Report and the dynamics anism adopted by the Prime Minister of the of their registration is reflected in the chart. Russian Federation D. Medvedev on May 29, 2019 No. 4714p-P36, Rospatent prepared the As of December 31, 2019 the Unified registry following drafts: contains 38 096 objects, including 3000 ob- ⁕⁕ Decree of the Government of the Russian jects entered in 2019, to which registration Federation on recognition as no longer in certificate was issued alongside with assigning force normative legal acts of the Russian a unique registry number to each inventory Federation which contain mandatory re- object. quirements which are evaluated by Rospat- ent in the course of control (supervision) In 2019, 6 results of intellectual activity trans- in the established sphere of activity; ferred to the foreign customers and used for ⁕⁕ new structure of normative regulation in the purposes, which are not related to the the sphere of legal protection and utiliza- state needs under 6 civil law contracts, were tion of the objects for IP protection creat- registered in the Rospatent’s section of the ed with the federal budget funding . Unified registry. In total, 723 results, the rights to which are involved in the civil law turnover Rospatent has also prepared proposals on spec- under 524 contracts, are registered in this ifying the cases of registration of an exclusive section as of December 31, 2019. right to the result of intellectual activity created under state contracts on R&Ds, exclusively in 2.2.3. Ensuring measures on inventory of the the name of the Russian Federation, jointly in rights to the results of scientific and tech- the name of the Russian Federation and organ- nical activity ization – contractor of R&D, and in the name of third person, as well as on making amendments The representatives of Rospatent completed to the Civil Code of the Russian Federation. work on 25 inventories with the signing of relevant acts in order to ensure methodological The following orders of Rospatent were issued: support and control over the compliance with ⁕⁕ of December 20, 2019 No. 212 “On adop- the legislation in the process of inventory in tion of the form of checklist (list of control organizations of military-industrial complex questions) applied in the course of federal and organizations which carried out works state control (supervision) in the sphere related to ensuring federal state needs in the of legal protection and utilization of the field of maintaining defense capabilities and results of intellectual activity created with security of the Russian Federation. The work the federal budget funding”; ⁕⁕ of December 20, 2019 No. 213 “On adoption of the Program for 2020 on prevention of Figure violations of the mandatory requirements Overall dynamics of registration of the in the sphere of legal protection and utiliza- results of intellectual activity in the Uni- tion of the results of intellectual activity of fied registry civil, military, special and dual use created with the federal budget funding”. 3 242 3 158 2.2.2. Maintenance by the Federal Service for 3 083 Intellectual Property of the Unified registry of 3 000 the military, special and dual use, with the own- ernship of its rights by the Russian Federation 2 764

Rospatent continued the work on maintaining the Unified registry in accordance with 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 was carried out in the course of performance ⁕⁕ 231 requests were considered and exclud- of functions on the legal protection of the ed from the total number of received re- state’s interests in the process of economic quests on various grounds (signing of the and civil law turnover of the R&D results of act of performing the obligations and clos- military, special and dual use and in according license contracts, absence of grounds ance with the requirements of Decree of the for conclusion of additional agreements, Government of the Russian Federation of sending to state customers of sets of docu- January 14, 2002 No. 7 “On the procedure for ments for conclusion of a new license con- inventory and valuation of the rights to the tract, organizations – licensees are refused 42 results of scientific and technical activity”. to conclude additional agreements by a court decision, etc.). In total, in 2019, the representatives of Ro- spatent took part in the work of 160 working With regard to 19 requests from organiza- inventory committees on the enterprises of tions – licensees the work is ongoing. military-industrial complex. During 2019, the FGBU “FAPRID” received 36 re- 2.2.4. Ensuring measures on support of license quests from organizations – licensees with the contracts on granting the state rights to the sets of documents for conclusion of additional use of the results of intellectual activity agreements to the earlier concluded contracts.

In accordance with Decree of the Govern- Following the results of consideration of the ment of the Russian Federation dated March requests by the FGBU “FAPRID”: 22, 2012 No. 233 (as amended by Decree of ⁕⁕ 35 drafts of additional agreements were the Government of the Russian Federation sent to the Ministry of Defense of the Rus- of August 31, 2016 No. 866) the obligations sian Federation for approval, 55 drafts were were performed which are provided for by approved without comments (taking into the terms of license contracts concluded by account 20 drafts sent to the state cus- the FGBU “FAPRID”, in particular by concluding tomer earlier); additional agreements and acts amending ⁕⁕ 1 draft of additional agreement was sent to or terminating the obligations of the parties the Ministry of Civil Defence, Emergencies upon agreement with state customers. and Disaster Relief of the Russian Federa- tion, which is yet not approved by the state For the period (since the adoption of Decree customer. of the Government of the Russian Federa- tion of August 31, 2016 No. 866 till December In 2019, the participation of FGBU “FAPRID” 31, 2019) the FGBU “FAPRID” received 555 re- was ensured in 151 court hearings in defense quests from organizations – licensees. of the interests of the Russian Federation in the framework of judicial activities on the 305 requests were considered. Following the enforcement of the rights of the Russian Fed- results of consideration, the respective addi- eration to the results of intellectual activity, tional agreements were drafted and sent to created in the process of R&D of military, the following state customers for approval: special and dual use funded by the federal ⁕⁕ to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian budget, the right to use of which is granted by Federation – 260 drafts of additional agree- state customers to organizations – developer ments (approved without comments); and producers of products of military use ⁕⁕ to the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the under license contracts. Russian Federation – 15 drafts of additional agreements (approved without comments); During 2019, 48 claims were sent to licensees ⁕⁕ to the Ministry of Civil Defence, Emergen- amounting to: cies and Disaster Relief of the Russian Fed- ⁕⁕ 3 301 680.88 US dollars; eration – 19 drafts of additional agreements ⁕⁕ 555 970.61 euros; (18 of them were approved); ⁕⁕ 11 150 409.57 rubles. ⁕⁕ to the Federal Security Service – 2 drafts of additional agreements (approved without 2.2.5. Maintenance of patents and applica- comments); tions for obtaining exclusive rights to the ⁕⁕ to the State Corporation “Rosatom” – 8 results of intellectual activity in the Russian drafts of additional agreements (approved Federation and abroad without comments); ⁕⁕ to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the During the reported period, FGBU “FAPRID” Russian Federation – 1 draft of additional maintained 23 earlier filed international PCT agreement (denied in approval); applications. 4 foreign patents were obtained (Israel – 2, the lective Security Treaty Organization, on ex- European Patent Office – 1, India – 1). change of experience in respect of ensuring efficient protection and enforcement of the As of December 31, 2019, the number of main- rights to the results of intellectual activity; tained patents was 164. ⁕⁕ Amendments to the Methodological recommendations on inclusion in contracts 2.2.6. Carrying out activities on conclusion (agreements) of provisions related to en- and implementation of intergovernmental suring legal protection and terms of use of agreements on the mutual protection of in- the results of intellectual activity received 43 tellectual property in the course of bilateral and used in the course of military-econom- military-technical cooperation ic cooperation in the framework of the Col- lective Security Treaty Organization. Rospatent sent to the Ministry of Foreign Af- fairs of the Russian Federation and the Feder- Within the work on preparation and approval of al Service for Military-Technical Cooperation draft Regulations on working groups on imple- for transfer to foreign partners: mentation of the concluded intergovernmental ⁕⁕ draft intergovernmental agreements – 4; agreements on the mutual protection of the ⁕⁕ comments on 5 drafts and counter-pro- results of intellectual activity and enforce- posals of intergovernmental agreements; ment of intellectual property in the course of ⁕⁕ requests on readiness to sign intergovern- bilateral military-technical cooperation, the mental agreements – 3; information about the signing of Regulation ⁕⁕ requests on readiness to discuss intergov- on establishment of the joint Working group ernmental agreements – 3. on the implementation of the Agreement between the Government of the Russian Feder- 5 consultations on conclusion of intergov- ation and the Government of the Lao People’s ernmental agreements were held with the Democratic Republic on mutual protection of competent authorities of the foreign states. intellectual property in the course of bilateral military-technical cooperation of December 16, The representatives of Rospatent took part 2015, as well as comments on the counter-pro- in the meeting of the Coordination Council of posal of the Regulation were sent to the Minis- the Interstate Commission for Military-Eco- try of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. nomic Cooperation of the Collective Security Treaty Organization on the mutual protection Rospatent considered 26 drafts of intergov- of rights to intellectual property obtained and ernmental agreements in the sphere of sci- used in the course of military-economic co- entific-technical, military-technical and other operation in the framework of the Collective types of cooperation prepared by the federal Security Treaty Organization, which was held executive authorities, in respect of allocation in Moscow on December 10–12, 2019. of rights to the results of intellectual activity, legal protection and use of such results. The As a result of the meeting, the following doc- necessary recommendations were given. uments were prepared and approved by the decisions of the Interstate Commission for Rospatent considered 7 drafts of normative Military-Economic Cooperation of the Col- legal acts prepared by the federal executive lective Security Treaty Organization: authorities, in respect of allocation of rights ⁕⁕ Regulation on consideration of requests to the results of intellectual activity, legal pro- made by the contract (agreement) parties tection and use of such results. The necessary in respect of alleged violation of rights to suggestions and comments were given. the results of intellectual activity received and (or) used in the course of military-eco- As a result of the round table held with partic- nomic cooperation of the member states ipation of the representatives of the People’s of the Collective Security Treaty Organi- Republic of China within the XXIII Internation- zation; al Conference of Rospatent, the Russian and ⁕⁕ Procedure for organization of information Chinese parties reached understanding on a interaction between the national parts of number of issues related to enforcement of the Coordination Council of the Interstate intellectual property in the course of bilateral Commission for Military-Economic Coop- military-technical cooperation. eration of the Collective Security Treaty Organization on the mutual protection of Moreover, 24 agreements prepared by other rights to intellectual property obtained and authorities of the Russian Federation were used in the course of military-economic considered and approved within the com- cooperation in the framework of the Col- petence. 3 INTERACTION OF ROSPATENT with the federal executive, judicial and other authorities; interaction of Rospatent with the regions of the Russian Federation 46 L. Kiriy,

Deputy Head

INTRODUCTION

One of the most important objectives of Ro- Rospatent provides the information con- spatent is interaction with the federal execu- tained in national registries of registered tive, judicial and other authorities, as well as items of intellectual property. This informa- with regions of the Russian Federation. tion is required to comply with the legislation of the Russian Federation on intellec- Interaction between Rospatent and the fed- tual property and protection of intellectual eral executive and judicial authorities is reg- property rights. ulated by bilateral agreements. Rospatent provides methodological and in- In 2019 new agreements on interaction be- formation support on the issues within its tween the Federal Customs Service and the competence. Rospatent also carries out re- Federal Service for Intellectual Property (June searches in terms of concluded agreements. 6, 2019), as well as between the Federal Ser- vice for Intellectual Property and the Federal Rospatent considers requests from the fed- Agency for State Property Management (June eral executive authorities, public prosecution, 7, 2019) were concluded. and judicial authorities on the civil circulation of intellectual property and exclusive rights Rospatent concluded 20 agreements on inter- enforcement. action with the federal executive authorities, the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Feder- In total, in 2019 the Federal Institute of Indus- ation and the Intellectual Property Court of trial Property (FIPS) fulfilled 3519 requests the Russian Federation. from the federal executive authorities, public prosecution, and judicial authorities. The agreements with the federal executive authorities are designed to ensure fulfillment Rospatent deems that interaction with the of their and Rospatent tasks. federal executive authorities can be improved by communication development using modern information technologies. 3.1. spatent decisions on means of identification was 286 and on objects of patent law – 120. INTERACTION OF ROSPATENT WITH THE FEDERAL EXECUTIVE AUTHORITIES. The indicated difference in the number of disputed decisions of Rospatent is due to the Upon requests from the federal executive large number of decisions taken in relation authorities, Rospatent provides explanations to means of individualization in relation to within its competence, information from na- the similar decisions taken by Rospatent in tional registries, carries out researches to relation to the objects of the patent law. identify a degree of resemblance between designations used in civil circulation and According to the data provided in Tables 3.2 protected means of identification and utility and 3.3 of Annex 3 to the Report, in 2018, Ro- models. spatent conducted 1558 decisions based on the results of the consideration of objections, Information on the number of requests and of which 1212 – in relation to means of individ- 47 the origin of the information is provided in ualization and 346 in relation to the objects Table 3.1 of Annex 4 to the Report. of the patent law.

In 2019, the following tendency was observed: In 2019, Rospatent made 2242 decisions based ⁕⁕ decrease of requests from the Federal on the results of the consideration of ob- Bailiff Service; jections, of which 1739 – in relation to means ⁕⁕ increase of requests from the Ministry of of identification and 503 – in relation to the Economic Development of the Russian Fed- objects of the patent law respectively. eration, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, the Federal Cus- Thus, in comparison with 2018, the number of toms Service, the Federal Tax Service of decisions taken by Rospatent based on the Russia, the courts. results of consideration of objections significantly increased.

At the same time, in 2019, the number of disputed decisions of Rospatent in the court 3.2. slightly increased.

INTERACTION OF ROSPATENT WITH In 2019, the court invalidated 68 decisions of JUDICIAL AUTHORITIES Rospatent based on the results of consideration of objections in relation to means of indi- Staff members of the Department of judicial vidualization. It is 3,9 % of the total number of representation represent Rospatent and FIPS decisions of Rospatent based on the results in judicial authorities. The Department takes of the consideration of objections in relation part in consideration of disputes in arbitra- to indicated items of intellectual property. In tion courts, courts of general jurisdiction and relation to items of intellectual property, the controls the enforcement of judicial acts and court invalidated 17 decisions. It is 3,4 % of the temporal measures imposed on items of in- total number of such decisions taken by Ro- tellectual property. spatent based on the results of consideration of objections. The Department of judicial representation analyzes and summarizes judicial practice, These numbers demonstrate the high quality prepares analytical material on application of decisions made by Rospatent. of the law in the field of protection of results of intellectual activity and means of identifi- Speaking about the canceled decisions of Ro- cation. spatent, it should be noted that invalidated decisions of Rospatent, as a rule, are not relat- According to the data provided in Tables 3.2 ed to incorrect application of the rules of law and 3.3 of Annex 3 to the Report, Moscow by Rospatent or violation of the procedure courts together with Rospatent have consid- for considering applications and objections, ered 406 legal cases that challenged Rospat- but due to other circumstances. ent decisions from January to December 2019. According to the data provided in Tables 3.2 In some cases, decisions of Rospatent were and 3.3 of Annex 3 to the Report the number invalidated on the basis of new pieces of ev- of legal cases considered that challenged Ro- idence presented to the court that were not the subject of consideration in Rospatent. In other cases, the decisions of Rospatent which include disputes regarding infringe- were invalidated on the basis of the judicial ment of exclusive rights, the establishment examination declaring that the documents of authorship (patent holder) of an invention, submitted to Rospatent were fabricated. utility model or industrial design, as well as repudiation (termination) of contracts. Such One of the reasons for the cancellations of cases are under the jurisdiction of Arbitration decisions of Rospatent was the fact that the courts and General courts located both in parties managed to reach an agreement at Moscow and in other constituent entities of the trial, for example, by receiving a letter the Russian Federation (see table 3.5 of Annex of consent from the right holder allowing 3 to the Report). to register the trademark. Such agreement according to Plenum № 50 of the Supreme While analyzing the judicial practice of cases Arbitration Court of the Russian Federation involving Rospatent in 2019, one cannot ignore dated 18 of June 2014 “Conciliation of Parties a large number of cases of early termination 48 during Arbitration Proceedings” serves as a of the legal protection of trademarks due to basis for cancelation of decision, if no viola- non-use. Rospatent is involved as a third party tions of law when Rospatent accepted this that does not assert independent claims re- agreement took place. garding the subject of the dispute. The data on the number of cases of this category are In connection with the above mentioned, in shown in Table 3.6 of Annex 3 to the Report. 2019, 23 decisions of Rospatent with respect to means of individualization and 4 decisions with respect to objects of patent law were invalidated on grounds not related to the incorrect application by Rospatent of the 3.3. norms of the current legislation. COOPERATION AND INTERACTION OF In its turn, due to the incorrect application ROSPATENT WITH THE REGIONS OF THE by Rospatent of the norms of the current RUSSIAN FEDERATION legislation and violation of processing applications and objections, only 58 decisions of In 2019, 2 Agreements were concluded be- Rospatent were cancelled, including: tween Rospatent and the Governments of the ⁕⁕ 45 decisions of Rospatent on means of in- Leningrad and Penza Regions. Due to the expi- dividualization, which is 2.6 % of the total ration, the Agreement with the Government number of decisions taken by Rospatent of the Khabarovsk region was renegotiated. following the results of objection consideration with respect to the means of indi- Based on the results of 2019, Rospatent inter- vidualization; acts in the framework of cooperation agree- ⁕⁕ 13 decisions of Rospatent on patent rights, ments with 61 governments (administrations) which is 2.6 % of the total number of de- of the regions of the Russian Federation (See cisions taken by Rospatent following the Table 3.7 of Annex 3 to the Report). results of objection consideration with respect to patent rights. In 2019, Rospatent together with FIPS continued working towards implementation of In addition, in courts (Intellectual Property provisions of the Memorandum of Under- Court, Arbitration Court of the City of Mos- standing between Rospatent and the World cow) the decisions (action/inaction) of Ro- Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) on spatent are also contested. Most of the cases the establishment of Technology and Inno- are the disputes regarding appealing against vation Support Centers (TISC) in the Russian refusals to register an exclusive right to a con- Federation. As a result: tract (without a contract) in relation to the ⁕⁕ 17 cooperation agreements, including ba- results of intellectual activity and means of sic provisions on the organization of TISC individualization. According to the data given activities of the 1st level were concluded in table 3.4 of Annex 3 to the Report, the num- (11 were renegotiated); ber of such court cases reviewed is 104, 94 of ⁕⁕ 4 trilateral agreements on the establish- which relate to means of individualization and ment of TISC of the 2nd level, to which 10 to the objects of patent law. FIPS, TISC of the 1st level, TISC of the 2nd level are the parties, were signed (2 were Apart from participating in cases in which the renegotiated); decisions (action/inaction) are contested, ⁕⁕ 1 trilateral agreement on the establishment Rospatent is regularly involved in the cases, of TISC of the 3rd level, to which FIPS, TISC of the 1st level, TISC of the 3rd level are the Valentina Matvienko, the Speaker of the Fed- parties, was signed; eration Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, on the organization In order to provide information on TISC ac- of training for state and municipal employees. tivities, free access to the databases of FIPS The proposals presented during the work of was granted. the Congress were included in the draft resolution of the Congress. In order to provide an opportunity of online filing of TISC applications for the objects for In 2019, 2 seminars on patenting and commer- IP rights protection (inventions, utility models, cialization of R&D, electronic filing of appli- trademarks and service marks, appellations cations were organized and held. A working of origin, software and databases) and of re- meeting on intellectual property manage- ceipt of the digital signature key certificate, ment (the total number of participants of the 15 additional agreements were signed. Within events was 100 people) was organized, as well the framework of an additional agreement for as individual training workshops that were 49 the contract on the establishment of TISC, in held as part of the TISC project to train staff 2019 TISC issued 36 digital signature verifica- on work in the FIPS databases and electronic tion keys. filing of applications for industrial property objects. The draft of the TISC Development Concept for 2019–2024 was adopted. In order to implement paragraph 1.2.1 of Protocol No. 2 dated 26 of June 2018 of the The “TISC Map”, containing detailed informa- Solemn Joint Meeting of the Scientific and tion on the state of the TISC network for the Technical Council of Rospatent and FIPS to- period of 2019 was updated. Based on the gether with the expanded Presidium of the monitoring data on the performance of re- All-Russian Society of Inventors and Rational- gional TISCs, general rating on TISC efficiency izers dedicated to the Day of the Inventor and was formed. Also, rating by federal districts Rationalizer to raise awareness of the youth and rating on the efficiency of TISCs of the regarding the opportunities and their rights 1st and 2nd levels, of universities, and libraries in the field of intellectual property, “Intellec- were prepared. 15 best TISCs were identified. tual Hash Track”, the All-Russian contest of educational projects among the TISCs of the On May 30–31, 2019 the VII Congress of TISCs Russian Federation was established. on the basis of Yaroslav-the-Wise Novgo- rod State University in Veliky Novgorod was In order to provide information and to raise organized and held. 93 TISCs together with awareness about the activities of the TISC heads of regional authorities and economic network, information brochure for the inter- entities from 47 constituent entities of the ested offices and individuals was issued. Also, Russian Federation, as well as representa- information brochure entitled “Best Practices tives from the Republic of Belarus and the of the Technology and Innovation Support Republic of Uzbekistan participated in the Centers” with the top 15 TISCs that took the Congress. During 5 sessions of the congress, leading position according to the results of namely, strategic, regional, image-building, their activities in 2018 was released. youth-educational and business one, 41 speakers made reports. Within the framework In order to grant access to technical infor- of the Congress, the exhibition called “From mation, the regional TISCs provided details Idea to Technical Solution” was demonstrated. on their project activities in the following During the exhibition, the inventions of the areas: youth initiatives, business initiatives, students of the Yaroslav-the-Wise Novgorod educational projects. The accumulated data State University, as well as of the enterprises will be published on the TISC page of the FIPS of the Novgorod Region and children’s tech- website. nology parks were presented. For the first time, special events were organized, including In the framework of cooperation with WIPO, the WIPO National Training Seminar for TISCs proposals were made regarding the project “Use of Information in the Public Domain for on creating a certification system for TISC Economic Development” and the public lec- staff on their service delivery skills. Necessary ture for state and municipal employees “In- details on the establishment of an online ser- tellectual Property in the Digital Economy”, vice platform for exchange of information re- delivered by Ivan Bliznets, the former Rector garding effective data collection, analysis, and of the Russian State Academy of Intellectu- management, received from the TISC network al Property in compliance with the order of of the Russian Federation were provided. In 2019, FIPS representatives made presenta- During 2019, in accordance with the Agree- tions at the following events organized for ments on TISC establishment, sets of Russian TISCs by WIPO: National Training Seminar in patent documentation were sent on optical Uzbekistan (March 26–27, 2019, Tashkent); Na- DVD-ROMs (total of 917 discs) to the Centers. tional Training Seminar in Kyrgyzstan (June The information products and materials pre- 18–19, 2019, Bishkek); Interregional Meeting pared by VPTB Division, such as “Guidebook on Integrating TISCs into National and Insti- on VPTB collections and Internet resources”, tutional Strategic Frameworks of China (Sep- electronic catalog of patent and legal litera- tember 2–3, 2019, Hangzhou) in cooperation ture “Legal protection of intellectual property: with the TISC representative of Kazan Energy reporting and foreign publications”, “Internet University; National training seminar in the navigator on patent and information resourc- Republic of Kazakhstan (November 26–29, es”, lists of recommended bibliography for re- 2019, Nur-Sultan). gions, etc. were published on the FIPS website.

50 Within the framework of the spring/fall ses- During 2019, Rospatent hosted 29 themat- sions of WIPO Academy, 218 staff members ic meetings on challenges that intellectual of the regional TISC network took part in the property field faces (see paragraph 6.3 of the training sessions. present Report). In the events organized by 11 TISCs, total number of 2,428 people partic- As of 31 December 2019, TISCs operate on ipated, including 527 people who took part the premises of 170 economic entities from via videoconference. The most active par- 69 regions in 8 federal districts of the Russian ticipants from TISCs were GPNTB SO RAN Federation. (Novosibirsk) that took part in 12 meetings, Peter the Great Saint Petersburg Polytechnic Information is available in Figure 1. University that participated in 8 meetings, and Belgorod State National Research University – The full list of economic entities providing 5 meetings. services in the areas of TISC activities is posted on the official FIPS website (www.fips.ru) In 2019, the coefficient of inventive activity

in the section “Technology and Innovation (Kia) in Russia was 1.59, excluding utility models Support Centers (TISCs). (UM), and 2.25, including utility models (see tables 3.9 and 3.10 of Annex 3 to the Report). By the main types of economic activity, the Following the results of the analysis, 10 regions economic entities, who provide services in with the maximum coefficient of inventive the field of TISCs are distributed according activity were identified (Figure 3). to the data shown in Figure 2.

Figure 1 Number of TISCs in Federal districts dated December 31, 2019

Number of active TISCs including: levels:

1 2 3 14 Southern

Far 13 Eastern Central 39 33 6 – 9 Ural Volga 52 22 29 1 Northwestern 27 15 8 4 6 North Siberian 10 10 – – Caucasian Far Eastern 13 10 3 – 10 Siberian Southern 14 13 1 – North Ural 9 6 3 – western 27

North Caucasian 6 6 – – 39 Central

Total: 170 Volga 52 Figure 2 Economic entities that established TISCs

Autonomous Non-commercial Organizations (ANCO) 5 Libraries 16 10 Regional Organizations of VOIR 3 3 14 Universities 79 Other 3 7 8 Research and production enterprises 5 4 Research institutions 10 Industrial enterprises 12 1 3 Technological park 4 5 5 7 Regional Chambers of Commerce 10 51 Educational institutions 7 10 Fund 1 12 Intellectual Property Centers 8 Centers for Scientific and Technical Information 7 16 Total: 170 79

By analyzing 10 selected regions by the coef- eration, Rospatent and the authorities of the ficient of inventive activity, excluding utility regions of the Russian Federation. models, it can be noted that only Saint Peters- burg and the Republic of Tatarstan demon- The subject of a tripartite agreement is the strate an increase in the coefficient over the interaction of the parties in the process of past three years. introduction of Recommendations into the practical activities of the constituent entity In 2019, Rospatent started to actively imple- of the Russian Federation as well as the assis- ment the Recommendations on managing the tance in intellectual property development. rights to the results of intellectual activity and means of individualization in the regions of the In 2019, agreements were concluded with the Russian Federation through the conclusion of Republics of Tatarstan and Karachay-Cherk- trilateral agreements between the Ministry of ess, as well as with the Tambov, Vologda, Vo- Economic Development of the Russian Fed- ronezh, Omsk and Ulyanovsk regions.

Figure 3 Federal districts with the maximum coefficient of inventive activity

Kia (excluding utility models) Kia (including utility models)

Region Kia Region Kia Saint Petersburg 5,91 Saint Petersburg 8,05

Moscow Region 4,36 Moscow 5,88 Moscow 4,20 Moscow Region 5,25 Tomsk Region 2,67 Tomsk Region 3,54 Jewish Autonomous Region 2,44 Republic of Tatarstan 3,03 Kursk Region 2,15 Ulyanovsk Region 2,86 Republic of Tatarstan 1,95 Kursk Region 2,71 Voronezh Region 1,82 Novosibirsk Region 2,65 Novosibirsk Region 1,80 Jewish Autonomous Region 2,44 Kaluga Region 1,67 Voronezh Region 2,41 In 2019, FIPS participated in the organization of applications, titles of protection, legal is- of 148 conferences, seminars, and round ta- sues, as well as the issues related to assistance bles in 40 regions of the Russian Federation to inventors in patenting, increased. (the data on subjects, timing, and locations are presented in Table 3.8 of Annex 3 to the Significant part of the requests (34 %) re- Report). ceived during the reported period did not directly relate to the provision of public services. In such requests, the issues related to the assistance in processing and filing of applications, introduction and use of the ob- 3.4. jects of patent law, remuneration payment, provision of financial and other assistance to CONSIDERATION OF REQUESTS FROM inventors during patenting and implemen- CITIZENS AND LEGAL ENTITIES IN tation of innovations, infringement, and res- 52 ROSPATENT AND ITS SUBORDINATE toration of rights together with other issues ORGANIZATIONS were raised.

In 2019, in Rospatent and its subordinate 88 % of the total number of the considered bodies, a total number of 1,911 requests were requests were applications, 11 %–complaints considered, 1,489 of which were received from and 1 %–proposals. citizens, 422 were received from legal entities. 841 of these requests were received via During 2019, the proportion of justified com- e-mail and through the website of Rospatent. plaints did not go beyond the indicators set Requests made by citizens prevail and consti- by the State task. tute 78 % of the total number of the requests considered. The total number of requests as During the reported period, the share of jus- compared to 2018 increased by 13.5 %. tified complaints constituted: ⁕⁕ with respect to the objects of the patent Table 3.11 of Annex 3 to the Report gives the law – 1.5 complaints per ten thousand ap- information on the distribution of the num- plications; ber of received requests by addressee and ⁕⁕ with respect to the means of individual- geography of the requests. ization – 1.4 complaints per ten thousand applications; The majority of requests came from the Central, ⁕⁕ with respect to the state registration of South, Volga, Northwestern, Siberian and Ural computer programs, databases, and TICs – regions. The number of requests from these 1.9 complaints per ten thousand applica- regions amounts to 64.6 % of the total number tions. of requests from the Russian Federation. In 2019, the number of e- requests from the Internet In regard to the receipt of justified com- without an exact address increased and con- plaints, measures to eliminate the identified stituted 31.4 % of the total number of requests violations and the reasons that led to the re- received from the Russian Federation. ceipt of complaints were taken.

The distribution of the number of requests received from the citizens of the Russian Fed- eration by federal districts is shown in table 3.12 of Annex 3 to the Report. 3.5.

The data for 2015–2019 on the distribution of STATISTICS OF REVIEWING CITIZENS’ the number of requests received by Rospat- REQUESTS FOR CONSULTATIONS ent and its subordinate organizations on the issues raised in the requests are given in Table Free of charge consultations on general issues 3.13 of Annex 3 to the Report. that do not require conducting of a systematic analysis of legislative and by-law acts in The majority of the requests (66 %) concerned the field of intellectual property protection, the activities of Rospatent related to the pro- as well as on issues of reference origin, are vision of public services. provided by Rospatent and FIPS Consulting and Reference Service (hereinafter CRS). As compared to the previous year, the number of the requests related to the examina- In total, during the reported period, CRS re- tion of applications and its results, processing ceived 79,219 requests, in connection to which consultations and references were provided The questions concerning preparation, filling, on 127,465 questions: and examination of applications and validi- ⁕⁕ 32,592 requests on 42,892 questions were ty of titles of protection hold the top spot, received via phone; and about half of these questions refer to ⁕⁕ 5,422 requests on 7,964 questions were trademarks. received via e-mail addresses of Rospat- ent and FIPS and through the website of In 2019 as compared to 2018, the total num- Rospatent; ber of requests received by CRS increased ⁕⁕ 41,205 requests on 76,609 questions were by 2,951 (3.9 %), the total number of oral con- received by CRS in the form of oral consultations increased by 10,543 (34.4 %), the sultations. number of written consultations increased by 1,811 (50.2 %).

53 4 INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION G. Mikheeva,

Head, International Cooperation Department

INTRODUCTION 56 In 2019, international cooperation remained Design Protocol is aimed to create a regional an important aspect of the development of system of the legal protection of industrial the intellectual property system. Rospatent designs. With regard to the CIS and the EAEU carried out an active work to effectively rep- framework, the work continued on improving resent interests of the Russian Federation in the regulatory framework for cooperation in the area of cooperation with foreign states, the field of intellectual property, as well as on international organizations, and associations, developing the CISPATENT project. as well as to promote the development of the legal and regulatory frameworks. Traditional and new joint projects were implemented with the European Patent Office International cooperation is built on three lev- and the European Union Intellectual Property els: multilateral, regional, and bilateral. Multilat- Office. The regulatory framework for cooper- eral cooperation is implemented through global ation with European partners was updated: international organizations, such as the World new areas of joint activities were introduced, Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and including exchange of experience in the ex- the World Trade Organization (WTO). amination of inventions in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), as well as the use of new Representatives of Rospatent continued to technologies in the activities of patent offices. be actively engaged in the work of WIPO, including promotion of the Russian initiatives Within the framework of the Eastern Econom- related to the digitalization of intellectual ic Forum under APEC, a joint initiative focused property. In 2019, promotion of the Russian on small and medium-sized enterprises was language was one of the central themes. On carried out. December 2–4, WIPO Director General Fran- cis Gurry visited Moscow and had a meeting Enhanced collaboration between the BRICS with the former Prime Minister of the Russian countries continued, the scope of cooper- Federation Dmitry Medvedev. ation expanded to the fields of trademarks and industrial designs. Regional cooperation of Rospatent was conducted across a wide range of areas. The year Rospatent continued improving bilateral co- 2019 was marked by a number of significant operation with the intellectual property offic- achievements in the development of regional es of almost all regions of the world. In 2019, IP protection systems in the Eurasian region. Memorandums of Cooperation were signed On September 9, 2019, in Nur-Sultan (Re- with a number of offices, joint initiatives and public of Kazakhstan), following a diplomatic internships were held. Rospatent exchanged conference, the Protocol on the Protection experience with foreign intellectual property of Industrial Designs to the Eurasian Patent offices on current challenges of legal regula- Convention of September 9, 1994 (Industrial tion and examination. Design Protocol) was adopted. The Industrial 4.1. tion of 3D models and images, and the corresponding WIPO Standard will be prepared. WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANIZATION (WIPO) Blockchain Task Force analyzes the data on the experience of offices and on the examples In 2019, work continued to promote the in- of industrial use of technology, as well as on itiatives of the Russian Federation at WIPO. the opportunities of using Blockchain technol- As part of the promotion of the Russian ogy for IP protection, information processing language initiative, work continued in the on objects for IP rights protection and their Working Groups on the Legal Development future use for the preparation of recommen- of the Madrid System for the International dations for the corresponding WIPO Standard. Registration of Trademarks and the Hague System for the International Registration of Comprehensive dialogue is maintained within Industrial Designs (see tables 4.1 and 4.2 of the framework of Task Force: communication Annex 4). The proposals were supported by is carried out through a thematic electronic the regional group of countries of Central forum and videoconferences. Asia, the Caucasus and Eastern Europe, as well as by Eurasian integration associations: Within the framework of the Standing Commit- the Eurasian Economic Commission and the tee on the Law of Patents (SCP), the Russian Eurasian Patent Organization (EAPO). delegation came up with the number initiatives related to the development of the patent 57 On the proposal of the Russian party, ad- system taking into account the digitalization ditional financing was included in the WIPO of patent offices. The Russian party initiated Program and Budget for 2020–2021 to expand research on time of consideration of patent the number of WIPO official publications, an- applications in national offices. Following a pro- alytical and reference materials on the sub- posal of Rospatent, a meeting aimed to ex- stantive matters of intellectual property de- change experience and knowledge on the use velopment, translated into Russian and other of AI for the examination of patent applications official languages of the Organization. is organized alongside with an information session on patentability assessment of inventions On June 6, 2019, to promote the Russian lan- in the fields of IT-technologies and AI. guage, WIPO organized the Russian Language Day, dedicated to the 220th anniversary of In May 2019, following the initiative of the Rus- the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin. sian party during a meeting of the Committee on Development and Intellectual Property Rospatent actively uses the WIPO platform (CDIP), thematic session “IP and Development to promote the Russian initiatives related to in a Digital Environment” was organized, within the digitalization of intellectual property at which comprehensive vision of current chal- the international level. lenges and opportunities that digital technologies open up for the IP sphere was presented. The work of the Task Forces continued with- Following the session, the Russian proposal for in the framework of the WIPO Standards draft decision embodying the digital agenda was Committee. The Russian Federation led Task adopted. WIPO will conduct analysis of existing Forces in Creation of a new WIPO standard gaps and opportunities for bridging the digital for using 3D models and images in applica- divide between the countries and expanding tion and publication documents, as well as on access to information and communication Blockchain technology (in cooperation with technologies. Based on this comprehensive Australia). analysis, WIPO’s member states will be able to present their national or regional projects. 3D Task Force on the use of 3D models and images defines the main tasks, goals, formats, The Russian party supports comprehensive technical means, best practices for working expert dialogue on digitalization. In 2019, with with three-dimensional images, as well as the support of WIPO, the second internation- the legal framework in this area. Currently, al conference “Digital Transformation: Focus research is being conducted on the use of on IP” was held in Moscow. More than 800 3D models and images in the work of offices, participants from 20 different countries took as well as on the examples of industrial use. part in it. Russian and international experts Based on the results of consultations with the presented their vision of the challenges and participation of a wide range of stakeholders, opportunities of digitalization, methods, and including service users, recommendations will principles of introducing digital technologies be developed on the industrial standardiza- into the work of IP offices. Pilot technical solutions related to the optimization of the regis- tual reality zones with the possibility to take tration process and protection of objects for a walk along the International Space Station IP right protection were presented. and to go into outer space, as well as virtual trips in 3D glasses to anywhere in the world In the framework of the Standing Committee thanks to satellite images were organized. on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR), In addition, a concert of the “Russia” State work was continued to promote the initiative academic Russian folk ensemble named after of Rospatent on strengthening the protection Lyudmila Zykina and reception on behalf of of theater stage directors’ rights. The purpose the Russian Federation were held. The WIPO of the proposal is to consolidate the legal leadership together with the delegations of status of stage directors by amending existing the participating countries of the Assemblies international agreements or by developing a commended the events of the Russian Na- new international agreement. Case study on tional Evening. the national legislation’s practices and law enforcement on this subject is currently un- Last year is marked by a series of visits by the derway. The results of this research will be WIPO leadership to the Russian Federation, presented to the SCCR in 2020. including an official visit of WIPO Director General Francis Gurry to Moscow on De- At the PCT Working Group meeting, the del- cember 2–4, 2019, during which he met with egation of the Russian Federation togeth- the former Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. 58 er with the delegations of Brazil and other BRICS countries promoted the initiative of During 2019, active work to promote the global the reduction of PCT fees for universities systems for registration of objects for IP right from developing countries and countries protection was carried out. Within the frame- with economies in transition. Rospatent, as work of the cooperation plan with WIPO, 18 the International Searching Authority and the seminars were organized on a wide range of International Preliminary Examining Author- topics, such as “Intellectual Property for Small ity, also took part in the work of the Meet- and Medium-sized Enterprises”, “The Madrid ing of International Authorities Under the System for the International Registration of PCT and its Subgroup on Quality. The focus Trademarks”, “The Hague System for the In- of these bodies is on timely and high-qual- ternational Registration of Industrial Designs”, ity preparation of reports on international “IP Policies for Universities and Research In- search and international preliminary exami- stitutions”, and seminars on the International nation conclusions, the relationship between Patent System provided for by the Patent the international and national phases of the Cooperation Treaty (PCT). PCT application examination, PCT Minimum Documentation, development of online servic- In 2019, seminars were held in the following es, as well as optimization of PCT fee transfer cities: Astrakhan, Belgorod, Veliky Novgorod, processes. Yekaterinburg, Irkutsk, Naryan-Mar, Novosi- birsk, Omsk, Kyzyl, Saint Petersburg, Tomsk, The position of the Russian party was pro- Tyumen, Ufa, Yaroslavl. moted both in the national capacity and as a part of a regional group of countries of Cen- tral Asia, the Caucasus and Eastern Europe. A number of initiatives were supported in the form of general statements from the BRICS 4.2. countries. ROSPATENT ACTIVITIES TO FULFILL On September 30, 2019, the Russian National INTERNATIONAL OBLIGATIONS OF THE Evening held as part of the 59th series of RUSSIAN FEDERATION ARISING FROM meetings of the Assemblies of the Mem- ITS PARTICIPATION IN THE PATENT ber States of WIPO was a great success. At COOPERATION TREATY (PCT) exhibition “Russia is a country of inventions and creativity”, different inventions aimed at Rospatent activities as the International solving ambitious global challenges such as Searching Authority and International Pre- conquering space, developing atomic energy, liminary Examining Authority creating unique materials and advanced technologies were demonstrated. Models of new In 2019, Rospatent continued its work as an generation reactors together with a virtual International Searching Authority and In- tour of the site of the Experimental demon- ternational Preliminary Examining Authority stration energy complex were presented, vir- under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT). This work was carried out in accordance with tionals or residents of the Russian Federation. the Agreement between Rospatent and In- Applications are accepted in the Russian and ternational Bureau of the World Intellectu- in English languages. al Property Organization (IB WIPO), which was concluded for the period of 01.01.2018– In 2019, Rospatent as the Receiving Office col- 31.12.2027. According to this Agreement, Ro- lected 1,310 international applications, which spatent conducted an international search is 24.6 % more than in 2018 (1,077). Further- and international preliminary examination of more, for the first time in recent years, the international applications in the Russian and number of international applications filed by English languages for Russian and foreign ap- legal entities (53,4 % of the total number of plicants, since it was chosen as the competent applications) has exceeded the number of International Authority by 29 receiving offices applications filed by individuals (46.6 %). of the Contracting States and regional organizations. In addition, Rospatent continued to Rospatent and the European Patent Of- conduct work in accordance with bilateral fice (EPO) are the competent International agreements concluded by FIPS with the Eur- Searching Authorities for applications filed to asian Patent Organization (EAPO), the Turkish Rospatent as the Receiving Office. Notably, Patent and Trademark Office (Turkpatent) the vast majority of applicants chose Rospat- and the Patent Offices of the CIS countries. ent as the International Searching Authority (1,233 applications). In 2019, a request for the international search 59 was received in respect of 3939 international Since January 1, 2016, Rospatent, as the Receiv- applications. Table 4.3 of Annex 4 of the Re- ing Office, has been accepting international port shows the statistics on the Receiving applications filed by the Russian applicants offices of different states and organizations, electronically through WIPO ePCT system. which in 2019 received most of the interna- In 2019, 264 applications were filed online tional applications, and the data for compar- (20.15 % of the total number of applications), ison with 2018 are shown in the parentheses. while in 2018 a total number of 171 applications were submitted(15.9 % from the total number Rospatent for several consecutive years has of applications). been ranked 6th in the world in terms of work carried out as the International Searching In addition, under the Eurasian Patent Con- Authority (following the EPO, China, Japan, vention (Article 15 (1) (ii), Rospatent is the South Korea, and the United States). Receiving Office for Russian applicants filing Eurasian applications. In 2019, 152 Eurasian Requests for international preliminary exam- applications were submitted to Rospatent ination were received on 47 international ap- (in 2018–174 applications). plications, most of which (32) on applications filed to Rospatent as the Receiving Office. Table 4.5 of Annex 4 to the Report demonstrates the key performance indicators of In 2019, in accordance with the bilateral Rospatent as the Receiving Office. agreements, the reports were prepared on an international-type search for 583 Eurasian applications, 2 Turkish applications and 9 applications received from CIS countries. 4.3. The main indicators over the past 5 years, characterizing Rospatent as the International ROSPATENT ACTIVITIES TO FULFILL Searching Authority and International Pre- INTERNATIONAL OBLIGATIONS OF liminary Examining Authority, in accordance THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION ARISING with bilateral agreements on different types FROM ITS PARTICIPATION IN THE of searches and examinations, are given in MADRID AGREEMENT CONCERNING Table 4.4 of Annex 4 to the Report. THE INTERNATIONAL REGISTRATION OF TRADEMARKS AND THE PROTOCOL Activities of Rospatent as the Receiving Office RELATING TO THE MADRID AGREEMENT

In accordance with Article 10 of the Patent In 2019, the number of applications for the Cooperation Treaty (PCT), as well as Rule 19 international registration of trademarks un- of the Regulations under the PCT, Rospatent der the Madrid Protocol filed by the Rus- as the Receiving Office accepts international sian applicants to Rospatent increased by applications from the individuals who are na- 14.1 % (in 2019, 1,940 applications were filed, in 2018–1,700). The increase in the number of of industrial designs became available on the submitted applications indicates an increase FIPS website via the “My Account” section. in the interest of the Russian producers in the This service that has a Russian-language in- introduction of their products and services terface, facilitates the process of filing appli- in foreign markets. Among the most active cations and reduces the time of their consid- applicants are Russian companies such as eration and forwarding, as well as reduces the Detsky Mir PJSC, Gazprom Neft PJSC, Mistral costs of the payment of international fees, Alco LLC, Biotechnos LLC, Krasny Oktyabr compared to filing applications on paper. PJSC, Rot Front OJSC. It is also worth mentioning that the number Increase in the number of filled applications of filled international applications for indus- for the international registration of trade- trial designs indicating Russia received from marks was facilitated by a state business as- WIPO for consideration increased by 165 %, sistance program providing state subsidies to which demonstrates the interest of foreign offset costs of the registration procedures, applicants in obtaining legal protection in the as well as educational work carried out by Russian Federation (in 2019, 872 international Rospatent in cooperation with WIPO, and registrations with the indication of the Russian with the participation of representatives of Federation were received, in 2018–329). technology parks, chambers of commerce, science educational organizations. 60 For several years, the Russian Federation has maintained its place in the top five leading 4.5. countries most often indicated in international registrations. In 2019, 18,804 international PARTICIPATION IN WIPO PATENT registrations indicating the Russian Federa- INFORMATION CLASSIFICATIONS (IPC) tion were submitted at WIPO, which is 8.0 % BODIES higher than in 2018 (17,404 international registrations). Rospatent continues to actively participate in the work of WIPO bodies on the revision In July 2019, the delegation of Rospatent and improvement of the International Patent took part in the 17th session of the Working Classification (IPC), the International Classifi- Group on the Legal Development of the Ma- cation for Industrial Designs (Locarno Classi- drid System for the International Registration fication) and the International Classification of Trademarks, which addressed challenges of Goods and Services (NCL or NICE Classi- of replacing national or regional registration fication). with international registration; the deadline for the response period to a notice of pro- Within the framework of the 51st Session of visional refusal of protection; reduction of the Committee of Experts of the IPC Union, the dependency period of an international the Russian specialists presented the results registration on the basic mark. of their work on the Russian-language version of IPC. In 2019, following work on improving the IPC, 1781 corrections were made. All corrections are translated into Russian and included in the Russian-language machine-read- 4.4. able version of IPC‑2020.01, published on the FIPS website and posted on the Rospatent ROSPATENT ACTIVITIES TO FULFILL internal search system PatSearch. INTERNATIONAL OBLIGATIONS OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION ARISING FROM Similar work was conducted as part of the re- ITS PARTICIPATION IN THE HAGUE vision of the Locarno Classification. 6 propos- SYSTEM FOR THE INTERNATIONAL als were submitted for inclusion in the next REGISTRATION OF INDUSTRIAL DESIGNS version of the Classification. All proposals made by the delegation of Rospatent were In 2019, there was a significant increase in the considered at the Session of the Committee number of applications filed with Rospatent of Experts and accepted. for the international registration of industrial designs (by 275 %) for submitting them to the As part of the work to improve the Interna- International Bureau. In January 2019, a new tional Classification of Goods and Services online service of electronic filing (e-filing) of (NCL or NICE Classification), Rospatent pre- applications for the international registration pared a number of comments and recommendations to add new goods and services to 4.6 the NCL alphabetical list for discussion at the next 29th Session of the Nice Union Commit- THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION (WTO) tee of Experts, which took place in April-May 2019. Based on the work of the Committee of Rospatent jointly with the Ministry of Eco- Experts, a new edition of the NCL Excel list nomic Development of the Russian Feder- of goods and services (NCL 11–2020) entered ation prepared the positions of the Russian into force on January 1, 2020. An official Rus- party to the meeting of the TRIPS Council held sian version of the list was published on the on February 13, 2019 in Geneva. In particular, FIPS website. the positions were related to relationship between the TRIPS Agreement and the Con- FIPS experts continued to actively partici- vention on Biological Diversity and the status pate in the work of the Task Forces in order of the moratorium on disputes which are not to develop new and improve the adopted related to the direct violation of the TRIPS WIPO Standards. Agreement.

Rospatent as the leader of the 3D Task Force During the meeting of the TRIPS Council held drafted a questionnaire on the use of 3D on June 6–7, 2019, the Rospatent represent- among industrial property offices. Rospatent ative made a report about the development plans to analyze the received results, and as of regional brands in Russia. a result to present at the next session of the 61 Committee on WIPO Standards draft recom- Upon requests of the Ministry of Economic mendations on 3D models and images when Development of the Russian Federation, Ro- working with objects for IPR protection. spatent prepared written comments to the Trade policy Reviews of Canada, Uzbekistan, As the co-leader of the Blockchain Task Force Peru, the European Union. The Russian law on Rospatent in cooperation with IP Australia geographical indications was notified in WTO. continued to work out draft recommendations and a guideline on the implementation Also the positions on e-commerce were co- of this technology when working with objects ordinated throughout the year. for IPR protection and present it at the next session of the Committee on WIPO Standards.

At the 7 th session of the Committee on WIPO Standards Rospatent experts proposed to 4.7 amend the WIPO Standard ST.3 “Two-letter codes for the representation of states, other BRICS entities and organizations” and ST. 60 “Bibli- ographic data relating to marks” that were On February 25 – March 1, 2019 in South Africa adopted by the Committee. the annual training of patent examiners from the BRICS countries was held with active sup- Within the framework of the revision of WIPO port of Rospatent. The experts of Rospatent Standard ST.96 “Processing of Industrial Prop- supervised the training and made presenta- erty information using XML” the development tions together with the representative of the of new XML-schema components for GI and Eurasian Patent Office about examination AoO was continued. The work on inclusion quality management, patent classification, of proposed changes into the XML compo- patent search strategies, novelty and inven- nents of the Hague system was continued as tive step analysis. well. Within the frameworks of transition from WIPO ST. 26 to WIPO ST.26 “Presentation of On April 15–16, in South Africa the 11th meeting nucleotide and amino acid sequence listings of the Heads of Intellectual Property Offices using XML”, FIPS experts tested the WIPO took place. The Eurasian Patent Office also Software “WIPO Sequence” and submitted took part in the meeting. The participants their proposals on modification of interface agreed to extend cooperation on the areas and functions of this tool. In order to raise of industrial designs and trademarks. awareness among stakeholders that the Of- fice will transit from ST. 25 to ST.26 a special The seminar on the exchange of experience meeting dedicated to issues of presentation and best practices in the field of national of nucleotide and amino acid sequence list- strategies and policies in intellectual property ings in accordance with this Standard were was held on August 27–28 in Brasilia (Brazil) on conducted. the sidelines of the 21st meeting of the BRICS Contact Group on Economic and Trade Issues. including the Agreement on the Cooperative The Russian party presented the experience Patent Classification (CPC) in intellectual property development using digital technologies. In 2019, Rospatent continued sending data about Russian patent documents classified by On October 1, 2019, in Geneva (Switzerland) CPC to EPO. New versions of CPC (four versions the Heads of BRICS IP Offices held an informal per year) were installed into the internal infor- meeting. The parties discussed common posi- mation systems of Rospatent with the possibil- tions on the agenda of the meetings of WIPO ity of their automated translation into Russian. Assemblies and reached the agreement to bring the joint calendar into line with common The SEC classification of applications of the calendar of BRICS cooperation. Eurasian Patent Office (EAPO) for international search also continued. Great attention was paid to the preparation for the chairmanship of Russia in BRICS in 2020.

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EUROPEAN UNION INTELLECTUAL 62 4.8 PROPERTY OFFICE (EUIPO)

ASIA-PACIFIC ECONOMIC In 2019, active cooperation with the European COOPERATION FORUM (APEC) Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) continued. During the year, communication The implementation of project “IP Commer- was realized at the expert level, the Russian cialization for SMEs” became the key achieve- experts took part in educational events or- ment within the APEC forum. Under the ganized by EUIPO. EUIPO representative took project, the seminar was held on September part in the XXIII International Scientific and 10–12, 2019 in Vladivostok (Russia) with partici- Practical Conference of Rospatent. pation of representatives from 10 APEC economies and WIPO. The event was organized on Cooperation with EUIPO was practical and in- the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum. formative. During the year, a series of seminars and video conferences took place on various practical aspects of the operation of intellectual property systems. The major emphasis was placed on the issues of digitalization and 4.9. the introduction of modern ICT technologies into the activities of the Patent offices. EUROPEAN PATENT OFFICE (EPO)

During the year, there was an exchange of experience in the field of examination of patent applications: Rospatent experts took an active 4.11 part in training seminars and conferences organized by EPO. In turn, EPO experts attend- COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT ed all key international events of Rospatent. STATES (CIS)

An important result of the joint work was the Rospatent within the scope of its competence approval of the Two-Year Cooperation Pro- participated in the work on such documents gram for 2020–2021. The signing of the docu- as the Agreement on cooperation of customs ment with EPO President Antonio Campinos authorities of CIS member states in the field took place on the sidelines of the 59th series of IPR enforcement (signed in Ashkhabad on of meetings of the Assemblies of the Member May 31, 2019), the Strategy of economic devel- States of WIPO in Geneva. The document in- opment of CIS for the period up to 2030 and cluded new areas of joint activities, including the Action Plan on its implementation. The the exchange of experience in the examina- section on intellectual property was agreed tion of inventions in the field of AI, the use of as part of the Strategy. new technologies in the activities of Patent offices. In addition, the existing documents On May 30–31 in Rospatent the ordinary on inter-agency cooperation were extended, session of the Coordination Council for the CISPATENT project was held. The parties thority and International Preliminary Examin- summarized the year work and discussed the ing Authority under the Patent Cooperation plans for the next year. The work on the devel- Treaty. opment of CISPATENT project was initiated. Also the cooperation between Rospatent, The 9th session of the Interstate Council for the EAPO and FIPS on electronic interaction Legal Protection and Enforcement of Intellec- continued throughout the year in the format tual Property (MGSIS) took place on Septem- of working meetings. ber 5–6 in the Republic of Kirgizia. The agenda included the discussion of the work on new edition of the Agreement on measures to prevent and combat the use of false trademarks and geographical indications. 4.13

EURASIAN ECONOMIC UNION (EAEU)

In the EAEU in 2019 the main focus was on 4.12 preparation of a strategic document, which determined the main directions of Eurasian EURASIAN PATENT ORGANIZATION integration development up to 2025. (EAPO) 63 On March 6, 2019, in the Eurasian Econom- The main event of the year was the Diplomatic ic Commission (EEC) the 9th session of the Conference on Adoption of the Protocol on Advisory Committee on Intellectual Proper- the Protection of Industrial Designs to the ty was held. The main issues of the Eurasian Eurasian Patent Convention of September 9, agenda were discussed, including preparation 1994 (EUPC), which was held on September 9, of draft international acts, exhaustion of ex- 2019 in Nur-Sultan (the Republic of Kazakh- clusive rights to a trademark, interaction be- stan). The Russian Federation was among five tween customs authorities and patent offices contracting states of the EUPC who signed of the EAEU member states and the EEC. the document during the Conference. The Rospatent’s representatives actively par- The Protocol creates the Eurasian system of ticipated in trade negotiations with Egypt and legal proportion of industrial designs, which in work on other trade agreements, particu- will take effect on the Region of all contract- larly with Singapore and Israel. ing states and will allow to give weight to the institution of industrial designs in the region and increase attractiveness for applicants. The text of the Protocol was prepared taking into account the possibility of the EAPO accession 4.14 to the Hague System of International Regis- tration of Industrial Designs. It is of a great im- BILATERAL COOPERATION portance for the Russian Federation in light of the recent accession of the Geneva Act of the In 2019, Rospatent continued the develop- Hague Agreement Concerning the International ment of mutually beneficial cooperation and Registration of Industrial Designs of July 2, 1999. exchange of experience with foreign intellectual property offices in line with current The results of the Diplomatic Conference trends and applicants’ needs. were discussed during the 35th session of the Administrative Council of the EAPO (Sep- The text of bilateral Memorandum of Coop- tember 10–11, 2019, Nur-Sultan). The decisions eration was agreed with the IP offices of India. were made on development of normative Signing of the document is planned on the acts required for the implementation of the sidelines of the 13th meeting of the Heads of Protocol. Also during the session, the propos- BRICS IP Offices. al of the Russian party was supported about expanding the number of participants of the 2019 was marked by the fruitful cooperation educational programs, organized by the EUPO with China. Rospatent reached an agreement on the base of RSAIP; the Provision on long- with the China National Intellectual Proper- term internships at the EAPO was adopted; ty Administration about the signing of new the proposal on requesting by the EAPO of Memorandum of Understanding, which will the status of the International Searching Au- regulate general issues of interaction between the offices. The delegations of Rospatent and as protection of geographical indications, con- FIPS took part in 6 international events organ- trol over the circulation of medicines, transfer ized by the Chinese party. In particular, the of technology and preparation of a number delegation of Rospatent headed by the Head of bilateral documents. of Rospatent Mr Grigory Ivliev participated in the 6th Russian-Chinese EXPO held on June In accordance to the previously made agree- 15–19 in Harbin. The Head of Rospatent took ments, the Russian-French seminar “Pro- part in the 2nd Russian-Chinese Interregional tection and importance of geographical in- Cooperation Forum and made a presenta- dications and appellations of origin for the tion “Regional brands of Russia”. Rospatent products of agro-industry” was held on Oc- also participated in the 5th Russian-Chinese tober 9–12, 2019 in the framework of the busi- Forum of Small and Medium-sized Businesses ness program of the 21st Russian Agricultural and presented a stand “Traditional handicrafts Exhibition “Golden Autumn‑2019”. of Russia”. In November, the delegation of CNIPA experts visited Rospatent to discuss In September 2019, at the invitation of the the activity of the Chamber for Patent Dis- Czech party, the Head of Rospatent Mr. Grig- putes. The parties reached an agreement to ory Ivliev took part in the conference and pay a return visit of the experts of the Cham- celebrations on the occasion of the 100th ber for Patent Disputes to Beijing. anniversary of the Czech IP Office.

64 During the 11th HIPO meeting an official ac- In the framework of cooperation with the quaintance with a new president of the Na- Japan Patent Office, the regular examiner ex- tional Institute of Industrial Property of Brazil change was held on March 11–15 in Tokyo with- Mr Claudio Vilar Furtado took place. An agree- in the respective program. On September 30, ment was reached on preparation and signing in Geneva the meeting with the management of the Memorandum of Understanding on the of the JPO took place, during which the par- Patent Prosecution Highway program (PPH). ticipants reached an agreement to organize mutual visits of experts in 2020. Rospatent reached an agreement with the Companies and Intellectual Property Com- Upon the results of the visit of the Rospat- mission of South Africa (CIPC) on organization ent’s delegation headed by the Head of Ro- of the visit of CIPC specialists to Rospatent spatent Mr Grigory Ivliev to Hanoi held on to discuss digitalization issues. June 18–19, the agreement was reached with the Director General of the IP Office of Viet Activization of cooperation with the IP offices Nam Mr Dinh Huu Phi on preparation of two of Austria and Germany was of great impor- Memoranda – on Patent Prosecution High- tance in 2019. The visits of the Rospatent’s way program (PPH) and data exchange. The delegation to the offices took place in Febru- Vietnamese side commended the Rospat- ary and October respectively. The main result ent’s initiative on promotion of the Russian of the negotiation with the president of the language within WIPO. Austrian Patent Office Ms Karepova held on February 22 was signing of the interdepart- On June 22–27, in the framework of the official mental Memorandum of Understanding. On visit of the Association of Lawyers of Rus- November 27–28, the Rospatent’s represent- sia to Mongolia, the meeting with the Head atives participated in the Russian-Austrian of the IP Office of Mongolia Mr. Erdenebat seminar on intellectual property and tech- Erdenesuren was held. During the meeting, nology transfer. the participants reached an agreement to prepare new interdepartmental Memoran- During the meeting with the Vice-President of dum and to organize training for Mongolian the German Patent and Trademark Office Ms. specialists on the base of RSAIP. Moosbauer, the main areas of cooperation were discussed, an agreement was reached In January 2019, with the support of WIPO, the to update Memoranda on general issues and working visit of delegation of the Syrian Arab data exchange. Republic was held. On November 13–17, the return visit of the Rospatent’s delegation took Upon the results of the 13th meeting of the place aimed at development of the Syrian IP Russian-French Working Group on the Protec- system. Following the results of the meet- tion of Intellectual Property and Combating ing with the Minister of Internal Trade and Counterfeit Goods (Moscow, July 10–11, 2019), Consumer Protection of Syria, the interde- the decision was made to continue the work partmental Memorandum of Understanding during the intersessional period in such areas was signed. The Syrian party noted that the Russian experience is useful for the develop- The agreement to provide the access to Pat- ment of the Syrian IP system. An agreement Search was also reached with the Tajikistan was reached to continue the dialogue be- party. The respective document was prepared tween the Offices and to organize the visit of for signing during one of the upcoming events Rospatent’s experts to Syria in 2020 in order of the high level. to share the experience in the field of IP and promotion of innovations. The work with the IP Office of Uzbekistan was significantly intensified. In particular, the On April 22–23 the visit of the Head of the IP meeting of the Head of Rospatent and deputy Office of Azerbaijan Mr Imanov was held aimed Head of the IP Office of Uzbekistan Mr. Bakho- at the participation in the Conference “Digital dir Sagdullaev was held on the sidelines of the Transformation”. The agreement was reached XXIII International Conference of Rospatent. to sign the interdepartmental Memorandum. It was subsequently indicated in the Protocol of the 18th meeting of the Intergovernmental Commission (Baku, December 9, 2019). 4.15 The work of the Sub-Commission on Intellec- tual Property of the Commission on the For- PARTICIPATION OF ROSPATENT IN mation of the Unified Scientific and Techno- PATENT PROSECUTION HIGHWAY logical Space of the Union State was launched PROGRAM (РРН) 65 with the Belorussian party. On February 25 and May 27, the meetings of the Sub-Commis- In 2019, the cooperation with the foreign sion took place by videoconference. Following patent offices continued to develop in the the results, the draft Recommendations on framework of the Patent Prosecution Highway the allocation of rights to the IP objects cre- program (РРН). ated in the framework of implementation of the Union State programs and inventory of Since the launch of the PPH in 2009, as of such objects was developed. The Recommen- December 31, 2019 Rospatent as the Office of dations were adopted on June 13 during the Later Examination received 4845 requests for 4th meeting of the Commission. The results of accelerated examination of applications for the work of Sub-Commission were summed inventions. General dynamics of the received up during the 5th meeting of the Commission requests is presented in Table 4.3 of Annex held on December 19 in Minsk. Besides, on 4 of the Report. Dynamics of the received August 1–2, 2019 the delegation of the Na- requests for accelerated examination within tional Center of Intellectual Property of the PPH program with division into the use of Na- Republic of Belarus headed by the Director tional and International work product is pre- General Mr Rabavolau visited Rospatent. sented in Table 4.4. of Annex 4 of the Report.

In the framework of cooperation with Ka- The Memorandum of Understanding on the zakhstan, the visit to Nur-Sultan was held on Patent Prosecution Highway program (PPH) March 29 to participate in the meeting with between Rospatent and the Turkish Patent the management of the Ministry of Justice of and Trademark Office was signed on April 8 the Republic of Kazakhstan, the National In- in Moscow on the sidelines of the High-Level stitute of Intellectual Property and the EAPO Russian-Turkish Cooperation Council. on bilateral and regional cooperation issues. The interaction with the Kazakhstan party Rospatent and the Japan Patent Office con- continued during the events, dedicated to duct regular exchange of the data on ap- the Diplomatic Conference held in Nur-Sultan plications involved in various types of PPH on September 9, 2019. program.

On January 21, the Kyrgyz delegation headed In 2019, Rospatent continued its work on in- by the Chairperson Ms Moldosheva visited formational support of domestic applicants – Rospatent. On March 28, in Bishkek the Agree- conducting of lectures, presentation on the ment on providing access to the PatSearch conferences and videoconferences, consul- system was signed during the highest level tation of applicants and patent attorneys, visit. In the framework of implementation of updating of the Rospatent’s website on PPH the Agreement, the training on the work in program. the PatSearch system was organized for the Kyrgyzpatent examiners by the videoconference. 5 DIGITAL ROSPATENT Y. Zubov,

Deputy Head

INTRODUCTION

2019 has become a crucial year for IT servic- range of our internet resources. Moreover, a es of our Office. New software systems are number of systems, for example, Information being developed and implemented along System “the search infrastructure for patent with maintaining the smooth functioning of information and means of individualization”, 68 the existing systems, as well as their contin- will allow the connection of third-party pro- uous upgrade to meet newly introduced and grams via API, which means that any idea of amended regulatory documents. The main how to manage a huge amount of informa- features of these systems are the focus on tion and statistics, can be converted into a platform solutions and the implementation program on a device and this program will of end-to-end technologies such as artificial connect directly to the databases of Rospat- intelligence, big data, and distributed ledgers. ent and provide any possible service to its We expect that when the transition to new users. Such a program can be developed by software will be accomplished, the technology anyone who is familiar with the basics of pro- of Rospatent’s internal work will completely gramming and has read the description of alter – many traditional operations that used the API. We believe this is a big step towards to be performed manually by our experts will Digital Rospatent – we provide information to become completely automated, that will sig- innovators, scientists, and interested individ- nificantly accelerate and improve the quali- uals, and this community by its own means ty of the work conducted and the services creates convenient tools for working with provided by the Office. Rospatent is becom- this information – without delay, red tape and ing more open – we expand the functional other bureaucracy. 5.1 The system has been developed and is ready for commissioning in January 2020 in the vol- ROSPATENT’S PARTICIPATION IN THE ume of the first stage (there is implemented IMPLEMENTATION OF THE NATIONAL a function for search by description by words PROGRAM “DIGITAL ECONOMY OF THE of trademarks and optical characters rec- RUSSIAN FEDERATION”. ognition of individualization means filed for registration). Within the framework of federal project “Information infrastructure” of the nation- 3. SIS “Decision-making support system in al program “Digital Economy of the Russian the field of Intellectual Property” Federation”, Rospatent implements activity to create and operate an information system The system has been developed and is ready for informatization of IPRs registration and for commissioning in January 2020 in the vol- protection procedures. ume of the first stage (there are implemented analytical panels: As a result of this activity implementation, it ⁕⁕ Director General panel based on informa- is envisaged to create by December 2021 14 tion on the execution of a state task, information systems for informatization of ⁕⁕ Regional panel based on patent informa- IPRs registration and protection procedures. tion and reflecting various territorial, temporal, and species sections). In 2019, Rospatent developed and agreed with the expert community (Working Group “In- 4. SIS for document management formation Infrastructure”) 22 technical tasks for the development and commissioning of 11 The system has been developed and is ready state information systems (SIS), 3 information for commissioning in January 2020 in the vol- systems (IS), 7 software and hardware systems ume of the first stage (there are implemented 69 (SHS) and 1 supporting information system basic functions for managing processes and (supporting IS). documents, registration and processing of incoming and outgoing correspondence, as well Basing on the agreed technical tasks, there as functionality focused on the registration were conducted relevant competitions and procedure of trademarks and appellations concluded 4 state contracts and 17 regular of origin). contracts. 5. SIS “Single state digital register for results Competition and the conclusion of a state of intellectual activity” contract for the development of an information system for managing administrative pro- The system has been developed and is ready cesses of Rospatent are scheduled for 2020. for commissioning in January 2020 in the volume of the first stage (there is implemented As a result of 2019, it was planned to create a function that is prescribed by the adminis- 11 SIS, 2 IS, 7 SHS and 1 supporting IS in the trative regulations of Rospatent for record- volume of the 1st stage. ing to the State register the information on registrations of trademarks and appellations 2019 results: of origin).

1. SIS “Management of formal checks on the 6. SIS for documents storage management possibility for performing legally important actions” The system has been developed and is ready for commissioning in January 2020 in the vol- The system has been developed and is ready ume of the first stage (there is implemented for commissioning in January 2020 in the vol- functioning of system focused on the storage ume of the first stage (there are implement- of the information on the current workflow ed formal checks at the stage of formal ex- for registration of trademarks and appella- amination of applications for registration of tions of origin). trademarks and appellations of origin, as well as a designer of technological regulations for 7. SIS “Distributed ledger of objects for IPRs formal checks). protection and means of individualization, occurring in circulation” 2. SIS “Smart examination system for means of individualization” The system has been developed and is ready for commissioning in January 2020 in the volume of the first stage (there is implemented 11. SIS for supervision of the use of rights to functioning of a system for turnover and man- results of intellectual activity agement of rights to trademarks). There is implemented a function of subsystem 8. SIS “Single information workspace for infor preparation of control and supervision ac- ternal interaction” tivities, and a subsystem for administration.

There is implemented a function of employee 12. IS “Infrastructure to search for patent workspace with the integration of technolog- information and means of individualiza- ical user services such as e-mail box, access tion” to network file system. The system has been developed and is ready 9. SIS for integration and management of for commissioning in January 2020 in the vol- legal and reference information ume of the first stage (there is implemented a prototype of an open search platform and a The system has been developed and is ready prototype of a search service. The main pur- for commissioning in January 2020 in the vol- pose of these prototypes is the testing and ume of the first stage (there is implemented approbation of technological solutions that functioning of subsystems for internal inter- form the basis of the system). action on the integration of information systems and software services for maintaining 13. IS “Management of centralized mainte- legal and reference information as well as the nance and support of information technol- administration). ogy infrastructure and users”

10. SIS “Omni-channel interaction of Ro- The system has been developed and is ready 70 spatent with stakeholders when providing for commissioning in January 2020 in the vol- public services, services under internation- ume of the first stage (there is implemented al agreements and treaties, publication of user maintenance requests management). publicly available information on activities in the field of registration and protection 14. The procurement and commissioning of of intellectual property in the form of open the supporting hardware and software sys- data” tems were made: ⁕⁕ “System of secure remote access”; The system has been developed and is ready ⁕⁕ “System for ensuring the continuity of op- for commissioning in January 2020 in the vol- eration”; ume of the first stage (there is implemented ⁕⁕ “Integrated information security system”; functioning of subsystem “Personal account”, ⁕⁕ “Software-defined data processing center”; subsystem for maintaining omni-channel in- ⁕⁕ “Basic information technology systems and teraction, and administration subsystems for services”; supporting seven public services: ⁕⁕ “Automated workplaces of FIPS”; ⁕⁕ State registration of transfer under a con- ⁕⁕ “Automated workplaces of Rospatent”. tract of an exclusive right to an invention, utility model, industrial design, trademark, 15. Supporting IS for digitalization service mark, registered integrated circuit topography, computer program, database; The system has been developed and is ready ⁕⁕ Amendment to state registers of inven- for commissioning in January 2020 in the vol- tions, utility models, industrial designs of ume of the first stage (there is implemented the Russian Federation, as well as to pat- functioning of a system focused on the digi- ents for an invention, utility model, indus- talization of information contained in incom- trial design; ing paper materials of applications and cor- ⁕⁕ Extension of the exclusive right to a trade- respondence on registrations of trademarks mark, service mark, collective mark; and appellations of origin). ⁕⁕ Restoration of a patent for an invention, utility model, industrial design; The above-mentioned projects focus on the ⁕⁕ Amendment to state registers for trade- establishment of a comfortable information marks and service marks, appellations of environment in the field of IP for citizens, origin of the Russian Federation, to the List businesses, state organizations, and federal of well-known in the Russian Federation executive authorities. trademarks, as well as to certificates for a trademark, service mark, collective mark, for The implementation of these services will an exclusive right to appellation of origin). allow applicants interacting with Rospatent absolutely digitally, including the issuance of The work in 2019 on automatic verification of digital protection documents. goods and services lists during examination process of the claimed mark within the frame- It is also worth noticing that SIS “Deci- works of the system for digital workflow with sion-making support system in the field of applications for trademarks allowed increas- Intellectual Property” will make it possible to ing the efficiency of experts work in terms of conduct analysis of patent activity based on accuracy of automatic terminology check and various indicators in Russia and all over the visual representations of the results of auto- world, in particular, in terms of priority areas matic verification of goods and services lists. for the development of science and technology. This system will allow forecasting the In 2019, the work aimed at increasing the indi- development of priority areas of the economy cator, reflecting “a share of citizens, using dig- both in Russia and its distinct regions, as well ital mechanism of public services” was contin- as assessing the progress in reaching set tar- ued. The conducted activities were focused gets of national and federal projects relating on the improvement of functional range of to the field of IP. personal accounts for electronic services and information user support, including answers for questions, incoming through the technical support service. There were conducted relevant regular meetings on how to work 5.2. with digital services, to update the information, published within the “Filing application” DEVELOPMENT OF AUTOMATED section at FIPS webpage https://new.fips.ru/ SYSTEMS AND ELECTRONIC SERVICES. podacha-zayavki.

Databases used for examination purpose The above-mentioned activities allowed to 71 achieve in 2019 that 81 % of all national appli- 5.2.1. Development of automated systems cations were filed electronically. and electronic services Users become more interested in e-filing In 2019, along with activities of Federal pro- mechanisms and digital interaction, this brings ject “Information infrastructure”, there were the increased number of views under tutorial conducted activities aimed at reducing the videos, posted within the “Application filing” time for the provision of state services on section, that exceeded 15800 views. state registration of objects for IPRs protection; activities aimed at increasing the In 2019, a transition was made to automatic indicator, reflecting “a share of citizens, us- registration and uploading of incoming corre- ing digital mechanism of public services”. spondence with an electronic signature from Further work on optimization of the Office personal accounts of the FIPS webpage to workflows and the development of elec- filing systems on applications for inventions, tronic services will allow achieving significant utility models, trademarks, industrial designs. results. As a result, labor costs for registration and processing of secondary correspondence are As a result of the automation of techno- reduced, time for delivery of documents to logical processes in the digital document relevant expert divisions is reduced, possible management system for the examination mistakes of operators when manually regis- of inventions and utility models in 2019, it tering documents are excluded. became possible to switch to the automatic generation of search reports in the In 2019, there was expanded the list of servic- ST.96 format in order to further switch to es provided to users of the Technology and the publication of relevant information in a Innovation Support Centers for filing appli- structured form, to complete work on fully cations for industrial property and individ- functional support of technological pro- ualization means, namely for a utility model, cesses providing examination and interac- an appellation of origin and / or an exclusive tion with applicants on electronic applica- right to a previously registered appellation tions for inventions and utility models, to of origin. accomplish work to bring decisions on the recognition of applications as withdrawn in In 2019, the Centre for data preparation con- accordance with Decree of the Government ducted the work related to optimization of of the Russian Federation of September 23, paper documents processing for their digi- 2017 No. 1151. talization, to the improvement of electronic documents quality for their further use In 2019, the system functions to conduct a within the FIPS internal systems, to upgrade search for amino acid and nucleotide se- of subsystem for user control (logging in/out, quences in the European data bank EMBL was two-factor identification), to the develop- improved. Moreover, a new array of LexisNexis ment of new schema for bibliographic data patent documents was uploaded. This provid- processing, and to the optimization of sub- ed experts of the Russian Patent office with system for reporting and monitoring. an opportunity to conduct a search for patent documents of the world patent collection In 2019, the automated workflow system for in English. The work on the implementation international registrations of industrial de- of artificial intelligence to conduct a patent signs under the Hague agreement was im- search has proceeded. The received results plemented. were integrated into the search system.

In 2019, the following electronic registers Currently, access to the internal system were filled with records: the State register of PatSearch besides Rospatent experts was trademarks and service marks of the Russian granted through secured channels to Patent Federation (ESR of TM), the State register of offices of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Moldo- appellations of origin of the Russian Feder- va, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Eurasian Patent ation (ESR of AoO), the List of well-known office, and the State Corporation Rosatom”. trademarks in the Russian Federation (List of WTM), the State register of inventions (ESR of IN), the State register of utility models (ESR of UM), the State register of industrial designs (ESR of ID), the Register of computer pro- 5.3. grams (ER of CP), the Register of databases 72 (ER of DB), the Register of integrated circuit USE OF ROSPATENT INTERNET topographies (ER of ICT). RESOURCES. OFFICIAL AND INFORMATIONAL PUBLICATIONS OF As of December 31, 2019, digital registers con- ROSPATENT AND FIPS tained: ⁕⁕ ESR of TM – 664064 registrations; 5.3.1. Development of Rospatent and FIPS ⁕⁕ List of WTM – 210 registrations; websites ⁕⁕ ESR of IN – 440140 patents; ⁕⁕ ESR of UM – 118157 patents; The number of published materials on the ⁕⁕ ESR of ID – 53273 patents; websites of Rospatent and FIPS increased in ⁕⁕ ER of CP – 139821 registrations; contrast to 2018: new documents – by 115 %, ⁕⁕ ER of DB– 13448 registrations; modified documents – by 92 %. ⁕⁕ ER of ICT – 1281 registrations. The official website of Rospatent (www.rupto. 5.2.2 Databases used for examination pur- ru) focuses on the provision of state services pose in the field of intellectual property, informing on legal regulation of issues related to super- In 2019, experts used the PatSearch informa- vision, control, and functioning of the Russian tion retrieval system to examine inventions system for protection and enforcement of and utility models. The PatSearch system is a intellectual property. professional search system for examiners of the Patent office conducting searches during In 2019, the following sections of the website the examination of inventions and utility mod- were created in the Russian version: “Rec- els. The system implements an extended set of ommendations on IP management in the functions and service options, taking into ac- regions”, “Legislative site map”, “Target pro- count the importance of conducting a patent grams”, “Open Rospatent tools”, “Rospatent search for various science and technical fields. annual report for 2018”, “Work with reference groups”, “Staffing”, “Civil protection”, “Register Arrays of patent documents of the USSR and of patent attorneys in the Russian Federa- the Russian Federation, CIS countries, World tion”, “Schedule of qualification examinations Intellectual Property Organization, European for patent attorneys in the Russian Feder- Patent office, USA, Germany, Great Britain, ation”, “Tutorials”, “Methodology of Project France, Austria, Australia, ARIPO, OAPI, Korea, office FIPS for the development of patent Japan, China, and other countries are available landscapes”, “II International conference in the system. The system contains more than “Digital transformation: Focus on IP”, “Inter- 200 million patent documents. national day of Intellectual property – 2019”, “XXIII International Conference of Rospatent”, The following subsections were updated with- and other. in the section “Russian patent and technical library”: The following sections were updated: “Patent attorneys”, “AoOs and Regional brands”, “Col- “Projects of the library: Webinars”, “The guide- legial and Deliberative bodies”, “Countering line on patent collection of the FIPS Depart- corruption”, “Structure and administration”, ment, Russian patent and technical library, “Public council”, “Control and supervision in and its internet resources”, “New incoming the field of legal protection and use of results patent and legal as well as vocabulary refer- of intellectual activity, created at the expens- ence documents”, “Recommendations on the es of federal budgetary funding”, “Glossary”, list of necessary methodological, legal, patent “Hague System”, “Patent information prod- literature, documents, and other materials”, ucts”, Information products and services” “Internet Navigator on Patent Information and other. Resources”, “Bibliographic indexes and lists”, “Lists of necessary bibliography for Russian The following surveys were published within regions”, “The list of WIPO publications”, “Pat- the sections “Surveys”: On the assessment ent Information News”, “Russian translation of quality and availability of public services, of the EPO publications”, etc. The function to on the convenience of the Rospatent web- conduct a search for patent and legal, as well page rendering and quality of published infor- as for scientific and technical documents in mation, on the arrangement of qualification the digital catalogue was updated. exam. Moreover, there is information on the share of users satisfied with the quality of the In 2019, the FIPS Project office created a web- search itself and the information, received as page “Patent Analytics” (https://patent-an- a search result. alytics.fips.ru/), the content and structure of the mini-site reflect work in the areas of 73 The section “Multimedia – Videos” contains 40 patent analytics, patent search, intellectual videos, including 21 tutorials, 14 reporting vid- property management, and project manage- eos, 5 online webcasts of Rospatent’s events. ment.

In 2019, the Rospatent website was visited by The sites of Rospatent and FIPS became 62043 unique users monthly, which was 40 % more functional, access to the most popular more visitors in contrast to 2018. services and patent information resources became more convenient, a number of elec- The FIPS official website (www.fips.ru) was tronic services were updated. The updated actively developed along with the Rospatent version of the Personal Account service on website in 2019. It provides access to a wide the FIPS website provides a number of new range of databases, including official electron- features: registration; filing an application to ic bulletins. The following new sections were grant a patent for an industrial design or a created on the FIPS website: certificate of state registration of a computer program or a database immediately through “Appeal to patent disputes chamber”, “The in- the Personal Account; filing an international formation on educational organization: open application to grant a patent for international vacancies for enrolment or transfer”, “The industrial design under the Hague agreement; working language”, “Materials for self-educa- work with previous drafts of applications and tion”, “Quiz on Intellectual Property basics”, history of earlier filed applications (only for “Presentations of the Project office”, “XXII applications filed through the new version of Moscow International Salon of Inventions and “Personal Account”); automatic registration of Innovative Technologies “Archimedes”, “XXIII incoming correspondence with an electron- International Conference of Rospatent: “Role ic signature on applications for inventions of Intellectual Property in a breakthrough sci- and utility model (Earlier filed on paper or via entific and technological development of the service PatDoc), on applications for TM, AoO society”. The following sections were modi- (Earlier filed on paper), on applications for fied “Patent disputes chamber”, “Statistics on ID/CP/DB earlier filed via the new version of Intellectual Property use”, “Application filing”, “Personal Account”. A new form of electronic “Glossary”, “About us”, “Scientific activity”, appeal to the Patent Disputes Chamber was “Structure and administration”, “Innovative published. The opportunity to submit applica- library as a center for working with scientif- tions for inventions and utility models through ic youth”, “The information on educational the “ARM Registrar” service using a qualified organization: Documents”, “Learning”, and electronic signature is provided for all users. other. 5.3.2. Rospatent Internet Search resources ⁕⁕ database of integrated circuit topographies (contains information on 1450 registered The Internet resources of Rospatent contain integrated circuit topographies from 2013 the following databases: to 2019 inclusively; monthly update); ⁕⁕ database of published applications for in- ⁕⁕ “International Patent Classification” data- ventions (contains information about 541 base (IPC); thousand applications for inventions of ⁕⁕ “International Classification of Goods and the Russian Federation from 1994 to 2019 Services” database (ICGS); inclusively); ⁕⁕ “International Classification for Industrial ⁕⁕ full-text database of Russian patents for Designs” database (ICID). inventions (contains information on 822 thousand descriptions of patents for in- User work with Information Retrieval Sys- ventions of the Russian Federation from tem (IRS) 1994 to 2019 inclusively); ⁕⁕ abstract database of Russian inventions Within the framework of the agreements on (contains information on 822 thousand ab- cooperation between Rospatent and relevant stracts to patents for inventions from 1994 organizations in 2019, they had access to: to 2019 inclusively); ⁕⁕ to full-text databases of inventions and ⁕⁕ abstract database of Russian inventions in utility models: the English (contains information about 717 •• 153 institutions within the framework of thousand abstracts to patents for inven- the program of Rospatent cooperation tions from 1994 to 2019 inclusively); with the regions of the Russian Federa- ⁕⁕ “Perspective Inventions” database (con- tion; tains information on 2388 patents for in- •• 36 institutions involved in the implemen- ventions recognized by FIPS as promising); tation of the state project on the devel- 74 ⁕⁕ Retrospective database of Soviet and Rus- opment of new technologies; sian patent documents in facsimile form (contains information on 1,431 thousand ⁕⁕ to full-text databases on inventions and patent documents for inventions from 1924 utility models and databases on industrial to 1993 inclusively); designs: ⁕⁕ Full-text database of Russian utility models •• 207 technology and innovation support (contains information about 195 thousand centers; Russian certificates and patents for utility •• 2 organizations of the “Rostech” State models from 1996 to 2019 inclusively); Corporation; ⁕⁕ abstract database of Russian utility models (contains information about 195 thousand ⁕⁕ to trademark databases: abstracts to Russian certificates and pat- •• 8 organizations of the Federal Customs ents for utility models from 1996 to 2019 Service; inclusively); •• 3 users of the Federal Service for Alcohol ⁕⁕ industrial design database (contains infor- Market Regulation; mation on 83 thousand industrial design patents from 1993 to 2019 inclusively); ⁕⁕ to all databases of FIPS: ⁕⁕ database of Russian trademarks (contains •• 189 institutions of the Federal Bailiff Ser- information about 697 thousand Russian vice; certificates for trademarks from 1925 to •• 717 institutions of the Ministry of Internal 2019 inclusively); Affairs; ⁕⁕ “Appellations of Origin” database (contains •• 101 institutions of the Federal Antimo- information on 762 Appellations of Origin nopoly Service; and certificates for the right to use them •• 16 institutions of the Ministry of Defense from 1997 to 2019 inclusively); of the Russian Federation; ⁕⁕ “Well-Known Trademarks in Russia” data- •• 96 institutions of the Federal Tax Service; base (contains information on 210 trade- •• 60 users of the Court for Intellectual marks recognized by FIPS as well-known); Property Rights; ⁕⁕ database of computer programs (contains •• 2 users of the Federal Agency for Pro- information on 105 thousand registered curement of Weaponry; computer programs from 2013 to 2019 in- •• 2 institutions of the Federal Customs Ser- clusively); vice; ⁕⁕ database of registered databases (contains •• 12 users of the Federal Service for Super- information on 13.2 thousand registered vision in the Sphere of Telecom, Informa- databases from 2013 to 2019 inclusively); tion Technologies, and Mass Media. Figure 1 IRS Requests distribution

Total requests Experts’ Users’ requests requests

2015 5 832 815 121 796 5 711 019 2016 3 283 000 110 000 3 173 000 2017 3 016 000 91 000 2 925 000 2018 3 473 000 120 000 3 353 000

2019 3 841 000 78 000 3 763 000 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

For third-party users the following databases the bulletins “Trademarks, Service Marks are publicly available: and Appellations of Origin”; •• ICGS DB; ⁕⁕ for inventions: •• reference abstract databases (DBs) in ⁕⁕ for industrial designs: Russian and English; •• DB containing information on patents and •• DB of published applications for inven- industrial designs of the Russian Federa- tions; tion published in industrial design bulle- •• “Perspective Inventions” DB; tins, starting with No. 87456; 75 •• full-text database containing published •• ICID DB. in bulletins “Inventions. Utility models” information on patents for inventions of In 2019, internal and external users made the Russian Federation, starting with No. more than 3841 thousand queries to Internet 2503161; search resources through the IRS, namely: •• IPC DB; About 78 thousand queries made by internal ⁕⁕ for utility models: users of the DB; •• DB containing published in bulletins “In- ventions. Utility models” information on More than 3763 thousand queries made by patents for utility models of the Russian external users of the DB. Federation, starting with No. 136275; •• reference database; Figure 1 indicates the distribution of search •• DB IPC; requests number made through IRS for the period 2015–2019. ⁕⁕ for trademarks: •• DB containing information on trademarks, Figure 2 shows the distribution of the number service marks of the Russian Federation, of queries to the search engine in 2019 into beginning with No. 501608, published in objects for IPR protection.

Figure 2 Distribution of the number of queries to the search engine in 2019 into objects for IPRs protection

2% 59% 2 264 000 IN+UM

32% 1 245 000 TM+AoO

3% 97 000 ID 3%

4% 156 000 CP+BD+ICT 4% 32% 2% 79 000 Classifiers 59% Figure 3 and are posted on the FIPS and Rospatent Distribution of the number of requests to websites in the “Official Publications” section. the registries into years 135 608 000 During the year, the following 84 official bulletins were posted on the FIPS website: “Inventions. Utility models” – 36 publications; “Trademarks, Service marks and Appella- 109 808 000 tions of Origin” – 24 publications; “Industrial Designs” – 12 publications; “Computer pro- 81 630 000 grams. Databases. Integrated Circuit Topog- raphies” – 12 publications. In 2019, more than 54 110 000 3305 thousand user requests to Rospatent 40 628 513 bulletins were recorded.

2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 In the reporting year, the continuous publication of data on performed legally important actions in relation to objects for IPRs protec- 5.3.3 User access to “Open Registries” of Rus- tion, which began in 2017, proceeded as the sian patent documents data is recorded into the electronic State Register in real-time. Users have free access to all documents contained in the “Open Registries” (hereinafter – Along with official publications on objects the Registry). for IPRs protection in 2019, Annual Report of Rospatent for 2018 and the texts of inter- In 2019, users viewed the page “Open Regis- national classifications were prepared and 76 tries” more than 135,608 thousand times, of posted on the Rospatent and FIPS websites which: (section “Official Publications”/”International ⁕⁕ More than 1778 thousand views by internal Classifications”). users; ⁕⁕ More than 133830 thousand views by ex- In the “Official Publications” section, a func- ternal users. tion to search for official records by document number, type of intellectual property, Figure 3 shows the distribution of the number type of document (application, registration, of requests to the registries as per years. reissue, notification), class and filing date. For the convenience of viewing documents, Figure 4 shows the distribution of the number users are provided with additional features. of requests to the registries into objects for Moreover, RSS subscriptions have been im- IPRs protection. plemented on the FIPS website in the “Official Publications” section, as a part of the devel- 5.3.4. Official Rospatent publications on the opment of a system for selective information Rospatent and FIPS web-portals dissemination.

In 2019, Rospatent continued issuing official bul- During 2019, more than 200 thousand pub- letins that are regular electronic publications lications on registered objects for IPRs pro-

Figure 4 Distribution of the number of requests to the registries into objects for IPRs protection 1%

73% 98 859 000 IN+UM

23% 30 592 000 TM+AoO

3% 4 761 000 ID 3% 1% 1 221 000 CP+DB+ICT 23% 73% Figure 5 Number of information publications on inventions, utility models and industrial designs

Applications for Patents for inventions utility models

Patents for Patents for inventions industrial designs

2015 25 573 34 712 9 014 5 493 2016 20 283 33 537 8 876 4 460 2017 24 961 34 255 8 774 5 110 2018 18 734 35 775 9 868 6 334

2019 15 897 34 008 8 848 5 420 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 tection and filed applications for inventions, The growth of total number of publications trademarks and appellations of origin were in 2019, as in previous years, resulted mostly posted in the official Rospatent bulletins. from the increasing number of published applications for trademarks, some 10 thousand In addition, the publication of notices on publications more than in 2018. changes made to the State registries of inventions, utility models, industrial designs, In 2019, there was a significant increase in the trademarks, service marks, appellations of number of publications on registered appella- 77 origin, registries of computer programs, dations of origin – 49 publications, which is more tabases and integrated circuit topographies than 3 times higher than in 2015. continued in the official Rospatent bulletins within the section “Notices”. An increase in the number of applications for inventions, utility models and industrial Table 5.1 of Annex 5 to this Report and Figures designs examined by experts in 2018 and a 5–8 contain statistical data on the amount of decrease in the average time for examina- published information for the recent 5 years tion of applications led to an increase in the distributed into objects for IPRs protection. number of registered patent law objects and, consequently, to an increase in the number Table 5.1 indicates that the total amount of in- of published information on the grant of pat- formation published in the Rospatent official ents. The number of publications on these bulletins has increased by 22.3 % in contrast objects in 2019 was at the average level of the to 2015. period 2015–2017.

Figure 6 Number of information publications on filed applications for trademarks, appellations of origin, and on registration of trademarks and service marks

Applications for trademarks and appellations of origin Trademarks

2015 44 265 30 573 2016 51 827 39 814 2017 55 417 41 554 2018 57 371 49 604

2019 67 398 50 076 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Figure 7 Number of information publications on registrations of appellations of origin and on granting rights to previously registered appellations of origin

Appellations of The right to use the Appel- Origin lations of Origin

2015 16 33 2016 7 26 2017 9 28 2018 13 32

2019 49 73 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

During the last year, the number of published 5.3.5. FIPS Information publications based information on applications for inventions on official Rospatent information continued to decrease. This is connected with the decrease in the number of filed Along with the publication of the official pat- applications for inventions for the period ent information of Rospatent on the internet 78 2017–2018. portal, FIPS continued to issue and dissemi- nate information products in 2019, including In 2019, the number of published information bulletins in electronic form on CD and DVD on the registration of computer programs, carriers. These publications were equipped databases and integrated circuit topographies with the latest version of the MIMOZA in- increased: in contrast to 2015, the growth was formation retrieval system. Also, users were more than 30 %, 40 % and 80 % for computers, provided with a wide range of printed scien- databases, and ICTs, respectively. tific-methodical and reference materials on current issues of intellectual property. Search databases and Open registries were formed on the basis of official publications In 2019, users were granted access to receive in Rospatent bulletins published on the FIPS informational publications, bulletins first, via Internet portal. They contain information on electronic communication channels through Russian industrial property objects indicating an FTP protocol. The format of publications their legal status, as well as FIPS information goes in compliance with the bulletin on disk publications. but electronic data exchange ensures faster

Figure 8 Number of information publications on registration of computer programs, databases and integrated circuit topographies

Computer programs Integrated circuit topogra- registrations phies registrations

Databases registrations

2015 13 410 1 804 139 2016 14 218 1 747 178 2017 15 000 1 579 207 2018 16 836 2 138 241

2019 17 496 2 525 254 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 receipt of the bulletin’s publications, as well various events organized by Rospatent and as simplification of further work with infor- FIPS. mation in a single information array. Thus, in 2019 it was produced in total 75 thou- For organizations establishing and hosting sand copies of more than 400 different infor- their own local patent collections in 2019, mation, advertising and methodical materials there were provided annual sets of inventions (brochures, booklets, notebooks, presenta- descriptions (ID) on DVD, since 1924. Besides tions, etc.) to conduct activities of Rospatent that, retrospective sets of utility models de- and FIPS (Forums, conferences, workshops, scriptions (since 1994), sets of information etc.) both in the capital and in the regions. on industrial designs (since 1993), and sets of information on trademarks (since 1991) were In 2019, there was issued Rospatent’s Annual provided. In 2019, the retrospective sets of Report for 2018, a brand-new issue on Ro- documents of the previous year on all ob- spatent’s activity “Rospatent: Trends. Goals. jects for IPRs protection were also offered to Tools”, and the third book “History of national subscribers with the option to receive them invention and patent business: past and pres- via FTP protocol. ent” – “State intellectual property protection system in the Russian Federation in 1992–2018” Quarterly there was issued on DVD an infor- was prepared to be issued. mation retrieval apparatus (IRA) that contained abstract information with references The Prospectus of publications and databases to full invention description and was published for 2020 was issued and distributed on paper. on the FIPS web portal. This information prod- The prospectus was published on the FIPS uct provided complex of patent information website in the “Patent Information Products” deep analysis in RSA “MIMOZA” with quick section. access to the documents via the Internet. 79

Totally, in 2019, users were provided with more than 400 sets of the above-mentioned publications (see Table 5.2 of Annex 5 to the 5.4. Report). DEVELOPMENT OF STATE PATENT In 2019, about 200 business entities of the COLLECTION AND INFORMATION Russian Federation purchased information SERVICES BASED ON IT products primarily to create their local patent collections in the interests of the users (see The most important part of the intellectual Table 5.3 of Annex 5 to the Report). property system is information support and services for applicants, right holders, patent Organizations and enterprises, conducting in- attorneys and representatives of the business novative activity (scientific, industrial) remain community. One of the main tasks being re- active users among general subscribers of the solved within the frameworks of this process information products. In 2019, significant pat- is the maintenance, filling and development ent information arrays were sent on disks to of the State Patent Collection (SPC), as well Russian active TISCs in the regions (see Table as providing convenient and reliable access 5.4 in the Annex 5 to the Report). to it for a wide range of users.

Moreover, in 2019, the services were actively In 2019, the volume of the State Patent Col- provided to foreign users – international pro- lection amounted to 142.1 million copies. The viders of patent information that in some cas- implementation of the project on the inclu- es boosted the range of purchased databases. sion of the national patent documents from the State Patent Collection into the National The distribution of the subscribers of the Electronic Library (NEL), which allowed users Russian Federation into the regions is intro- to open a new channel for accessing patent duced in Table 5.5 of Annex 5 to the Report. information not only for conducting a patent The most active users among regions remain search but also for solving scientific and ed- the Central and Volga regions, representing ucational tasks. In order to expand the chan- almost 65 % of consumers. nels of access to patent information in 2019, an array of national patent documents was Besides publication and distribution of in- published at the Scientific Electronic Library formation products based on official infor- “eLibrary.ru”, Russia’s largest information and mation, FIPS produced printed materials for analytical portal in the field of science, technology, medicine, and education as well as in electronic form increases annually: by the at the service “Yandex.Patents” within the end of 2019, it accounted for 67 %, which is frameworks of the joint projects of Rospatent 1.7 % more than in 2018. and Yandex, started in March 2019. The SPC is currently provided both on tangi- During the past year, the automated library ble carriers (collections on optical disks, paper system (ALS) of the Russian patent and tech- copies, and microcarriers) and in electronic nical library of FIPS based on the library au- form (PatSearch system). The functionality of tomation system (SAB)”Irbis64” was put into this system is primarily intended for organiz- operation. Search and service capabilities ing the work of experts. In the computer class were expanded, integration and posting on of the Library, this system can be used by all the FIPS website of the electronic catalogue categories of users with some restrictions of patent and legal as well as scientific and (access to materials of national applications is technical documents. The work on automa- not provided). Users are also granted access tion of the Library activities using barcoding to remote patent and non-patent databases and radio frequency identification has been on the basis of contracts concluded with the initiated. In order to ensure the preservation owners of the resources. of the SPC through mass neutralization of the acidity of the paper, a retrospective array of In terms of the formation and development national patent documents with a total weight of the SPC, in 2019, FIPS identified the fol- of about 7 tons was processed. lowing tasks: ⁕⁕ ensuring the completeness and quality of State Patent Collection the State Patent Fund; ⁕⁕ introduction of the VPTB automated library The State Patent Collection (hereinafter – system based on the library automation 80 SPC) is a set of information sources that are system (SAB)”Irbis64”; systematized and supplied with an informa- ⁕⁕ improvement of patent information sup- tional retrieval apparatus (hereinafter – IRA), port for employees of the Rospatent sys- relating to all industrial property objects on tem, as well as a wide range of patent in- all types of carriers, as well as to registered formation users . computer programs, databases and integrated circuit topographies, including patent In 2019, the SPC was traditionally filled up documents, patent-associated, patent-legal, with national patent documents on a sub- regulatory and methodological, scientific and scription basis, as well as with foreign patent technical and reference literature. documents received within the frameworks of the international data exchange which was As of December 31, 2019, the SPC contains carried out with Patent offices of 57 countries 142.1 million copies. The increase in 2019 and 6 international organizations. The share amounted to 6.6 million documents, which is of the national patent documents stored in 500 thousand documents more than in 2018. the SPC on all type of carriers accounts for A significant increase is associated primar- 7.4 %, foreign documents – 92.4 %, national and ily with an increase in the incoming patent foreign non-patent documents accounts for documents from foreign Patent offices. The 0.2 % (See Figure 10). share of documents submitted to the SPC

Figure 9 SPC structure distributed into information carriers as of December 31, 2019

Number of % Information carrier documents

67,0 95 222 125 Electronic carrier

25,0 35 439 248 Paper carrier

8,0 11 416 571 Micro carrier 8% 25% 100 142 077 944 TOTAL: 67% The international exchange of patent doc- The SPC is traditionally divided into two main umentation was carried out mainly by up- parts – the Central Patent Fund (CPF) and the loading data from foreign Patent offices from Patent Examination Collection (PEC). FTP servers or other network resources of IP Offices. In total, 6.0 million documents were The Central Patent Fund uploaded during the last year. Rospatent, fulfilling the obligations of international ex- The Central Patent Fund (CPF) is designed to change, also provides its official publications serve all categories of users with patent in- to foreign Patent offices through a special formation and includes collections of national FTP server. (since 1814) and foreign patent documents from various countries, various depths, ab- The international exchange of patent docu- stract and bibliographic publications on all ments with foreign Patent offices is presented industrial property objects, patent-legal col- by the data given in Table 5.6 of Annex 5 to lections, normative-methodical and reference the Report. books, as well as IRA to these collections.

In the process of completing and maintaining The CPF, as of December 31, 2019, has 124.8 the SPC, the FIPS Library department con- million copies of patent documents; in 2019, stantly monitors its completeness, records more than 6.6 million copies of documents incoming and uploaded foreign documenta- were received. tion, as well as the quantitative state of the SPC in general. To conduct patent information research, all categories of VPTB users are provided with The quantitative characteristics of the SPC access to the PatSearch search system, as patent documents update for the last five well as to other modern patent information years are presented in Table 5.7 of Annex 5 resources – the Global Patent Index database; 81 to the Report. EAPATIS, Questel Orbit; eLIBRARY.

In order to fulfil the tasks set in the Strategy An integral part of the CPF is a collection of for the Development of the Information So- patent-law and vocabulary and reference ciety in the Russian Federation for 2017–2030, books, which was an estimated 93 thousand access to the national patent documentation copies of editions. of the SPC is provided through the National Electronic Library (NEB). More than 2.5 mil- In addition, users are provided with access to lion Soviet and Russian patent documents for e-book patent and legal publications of the inventions and utility models were uploaded Edward Elgar publishing house, the electronic into the National Electronic Library from 1924 library of dissertations of the Russian State to 2019, which accounted for 50 % of the total Library, the National Electronic Library and array of documents in the National Electronic the Web of Science information resources, Library. You can enter the NEL through the KluwerIPLaw, ScienceDirect and Scopus of the FIPS website and get access to information publishing house Elsevier, eLIBRARY and the from mobile applications from the NEL plat- resources of the publishing house SPRINGER form. NATURE.

Figure 10 SPC structure distributed into types of documents

Number of % Type of documents documents

92,4 131 248 529 Foreign patent documents

National patent 7,4 10 526 276 documents

0,2 303 139 Non-patent documents 0,2% 7,4% 100 142 077 944 TOTAL: 92,4% Patent Examination Fund as well as for other interested users of patent information are provided on the basis of the PEF is designated to serve state intellectual SPC, both directly at the service departments property experts. of the Library and in the remote access mode to various information products prepared by The structure and composition of the PEF are the Library on the FIPS website, processing of governed by Rule 34 of the Regulations under written requests and the provision of infor- the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), where Ro- mation, and advice telephonically. spatent is one of the participants, as well as by bilateral interagency treaties and agreements. Library users are provided with access to information retrieval systems, patent and In order to conduct the patent examination non-patent databases, and patent documen- in FIPS, the modern automated patent in- tation on paper and microcarrier. The Library formation system PatSearch is used, which provides access to the most complete collec- is regularly updated with both national and tion of Russian privileges for inventions from foreign patent documents. 1814–1917, to a unique collection of patent and legal literature, which includes national and During this period, in order to conduct the foreign books and periodicals on various is- state examination, as earlier, it was provided sues of the legal protection of intellectual access to STN Intrantinal database, access property in that country and abroad, and also to Derwent World Patent Index (DWPI) was to the Kluwer IP Law DB, electronic books and renewed, access to world trademarks data- periodicals. base SAEGIS of Clarivate Analytics, as well as to arrays of Lexis Nexis. Library users have an option to receive in the bibliographic reference room, as well as di- 82 As of December 31, 2019, the PEF on paper cop- rectly in the service departments, references ies contains 17.3 million national and foreign pat- and advice on conducting various types of ent documents and is no longer being updated. patent searches, classification systems, using databases and other sources of patent State examination process requires non-pat- information available in the Library, as well ent information to be provided in the PEF as posted on websites of Rospatent and FIPS, such as scientific and technical, patent and foreign Patent offices and organizations. legal or reference and other books or regular publications, as well as upon the request, Practical classes on working with databases, through the system of interlibrary loan and training in electronic filing of applications, in- electronic delivery of documents from the cluding test access to the services “Electronic largest specialized funds of Moscow libraries filing of an application for an invention or util- and remote databases. ity model”, “Electronic filing of an application for a trademark” are regularly held as well as An integral part of the SPC is a collection of the work with “Application for registration of applications and contracts for the results of a computer program or database” and “Appli- intellectual activity and means of individuali- cation for an industrial design” was organized zation. In 2019, the fund was updated with 188 in the Library computer hall. thousand applications and contracts and totally amounted to 1.4 million units of storage. During The main indicators of the Library information this period, over 242 thousand documents of services provided by the Library on the basis this fund were distributed among the FIPS de- of the SPC for the past 5 years are given in partments. An examination of 38 thousand ap- Table 5.8 of Annex 5 to the Report. plications for inventions and industrial designs to determine the storage period (permanent In 2019 it was executed more than 1.7 thou- and temporary). In the Russian State Archives sand orders of patent information services, (RSA)located in the city of Tugulym, Sverdlovsk that were mainly related to the provision of oblast, 82 thousand applications for results of copies from the SPC, for the Library users, as intellectual activity and means of individualiza- well as for remote regions, and foreign users. tion were transferred for permanent storage. On the basis of the SPC patent documenta- Information services provided on the basis tion, patent information products, and other of SPC materials are being prepared for posting on the FIPS website. Exhibitions in the Rospatent Patent information services for Rospatent Museum and on the FIPS sites, mobile and specialists and its subordinate organizations, virtual exhibitions, preparing brochures on the history of the patent business, etc are a brochure “Popular alphabet of intellectu- being organized. al property” for education projects among youth. There were prepared and printed the During 2019, the work was carried out on following booklets: “The Library information updating and supplementing the materials resources”, “Russian patent and technical posted on the FIPS website in the “the Li- library”, “Patent documents of the SPC in brary Department” section, the updates were SEL”, a booklet for the exhibition “Intelligence provided quarterly. Changes were made to serves for theater”. the electronic version of the “Guide to the Funds of the The FIPS Library Department In accordance with the Prospectus of publica- and Internet Resources”: the “Legislation” and tions and databases of FIPS for 2019, the fol- “Search Systems” sections were updated with lowing brochures were prepared and printed new information, as well as the annexes to out: “Legislation and regulations on inventions the Guide. The Internet links were updated in the first years of the Soviet period (on the (as of December 31, 2019 it contains 10770 100th anniversary of Decree “On Inventions links). Changes and additions were made to (Regulation of June 30, 1919)”, the author is the “Internet browser on patent information Candidate of Historical Sciences A. P. Kole- resources”, the Internet links were updat- snikov; “Famous Patent Owners of Russia: ed (as of December 31, 2019, it contains 5760 biobibliographic index “, author – O. V. Zezina. links). The structure was modified and 5 new sections were created, the design of the web- The Library Department renders services to site was updated. There were translated and the specialists of the Rospatent system (47 posted EPO publications “News on patent users), using the mode of Selective Informa- information” for 2019. Lists of recommended tion Dissemination (SDI) on the issues of intel- bibliography for regions that were divided lectual property legal protection all over the into three topics were published monthly. world. Since 2019 it is available in automated 83 Since 2019 the electronic catalogue of patent, mode with the help of specialized ARM servic- scientific and legal documents update is con- es “Book issuance” SAB “IRBIS 64”. During the ducted every three days (as of December 31, year the information on new publications was 2019, it contains 352,086 records). distributed every week among Directors and main specialists of Rospatent FIPS and RSAIP Users’ requests to the information products (113 persons): lists of new publications on cur- of the Library Department are published on rent issues of intellectual property protection the FIPS website, indicating the data provided (Russian and foreign journals from the Library in Tables 5.9 and 5.10 of Annex to the Report. collection), “Digest on Intellectual Property and Related Areas” (based on Russian mass On the basis of the SPC, electronic catalogue, media on the Internet), which was also posted and other sources of information in 2019, the on the FIPS website. Library prepares various information materials for the participants of events, organized In order to raise public awareness on doc- by Rospatent, as well as for further publishing uments in the State patent collection there of this information on the FIPS website. were prepared and published in the Nation- al electronic library 5 thematic abstracts of Within the framework of exhibitions organi- Russian patent documents: “Vladimir Shuk- zation for the Rospatent Museum, FIPS pre- hov (1853–1939). The famous Russian scientist pared: “Trademarks catalogue of the main and engineer”, “The driving force of changes: theaters in the Russian Federation devot- women in the field of innovation and creativ- ed to the Year of theater in Russia in 2019”; ity”; “Intelligence serves for theater”. “Young the bio-bibliographic index “Boris Rosing as inventors the beginning”; “Leo Theremin is the a founder of “electric telescope” (dedicat- inventor of Theremin.” ed to 150 anniversary). There was prepared 6 SCIENTIFIC, EDUCATIONAL AND AWARENESS-RAISING ACTIVITY O. Neretin, O. Arakelova,

Director, Federal Institute of Industrial Acting Rector, Russian State Academy of Property Intellectual Property

INTRODUCTION

Based on its core functions, Rospatent and its During the last years, Rospatent has devoted subordinate institutes place particular impor- considerable attention to the awareness-rais- tance on scientific, educational and project ing activity, to the public promotion of the IP 86 activity. issues and the support for youth technical creativity. In Section 6, the main results of scientific and educational work of FIPS and RSAIP are listed. Rospatent’s focus of attention is also placed Scientific and educational activity is primar- on the yearly participation in exhibition ily directed at enhancing and development events organized in the Russian Federation of consulting and methodological base, of and abroad. modern views on the development of the IP field, all by submitting proposals on improving the IP legislation. 6.1. 6.1.2. Scientific activity of FIPS

SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY According to the tasks undertaken by FIPS, the current research projects are aimed at issues 6.1.1. Scientific and technological Council of and challenges of maintenance, development FIPS and improvement of examination, legal protection, use and enforcement of results of intel- Scientific and technological Council of FIPS lectual activity and means of individualization. is a deliberative body that carries out a peer review of issues and formulates suggestions In 2019, FIPS research projects were conduct- on scientific, technical, legal and information ed under the FIPS Thematic Plan of Research activity of FIPS. Projects signed by the Head of Rospatent in the following areas: In 2019, 36 members took part of the Council, ⁕⁕ issues of legal protection and examination including 10 Doctors of Sciences and 9 PhDs. of objects for IP rights protection; In addition to FIPS employees, representa- ⁕⁕ information technologies in the IP field; tives of Rospatent’s subordinate bodies are ⁕⁕ economic and organizational issues; members of the Council – Federal State Budg- ⁕⁕ development of educational activity. etary Institution “Federal Agency for Legal Protection of the Results of Intellectual Ac- As a part of the research projects completed tivity of Military, Special and Dual Designation” in 2019: (FAPRID) and RSAIP – and also representatives ⁕⁕ the proposals were developed on introduc- of the Committee on Science, Education, and ing changes in the departmental methodol- Culture of the Federation Council of the Fed- ogy documents, as well as regulatory legal eral Assembly of the Russian Federation; the acts on the legal protection of industrial Lomonosov Moscow State University; the In- designs, inventions, and utility models; stitute of Informatics Problems of the Feder- ⁕⁕ version of database on legal service names al Research Center “Computer Science And was created, systematized on the principle Control” of the Russian Academy Of Sciences; of the “relative” uniformity; the Russian Research Institute of Economics, ⁕⁕ study was conducted on issues of integrat- Politics, and Law in Science and Technology; ing solutions on the use of products and Institute of Applied Mathematics and Me- services knowledge database with an ex- 87 chanics of the Peter the Great St. Petersburg amination system of the stated trademark Polytechnic University; All-Russian Society of designation: Inventors and Innovators (VOIR). •• algorithms were developed for further creation of specialized programs. Their In 2019, Council had 6 meetings with 30 re- use should ensure the automatization ports and statements, and based on their of designation examination procedures discussion appropriate decisions were made. with automatic preparation of draft examination decisions, including automat- Among the most important issues reviewed at ic comparison of claimed nominations the Council meetings there were the following: of goods or services with legal terms of goods and services from International 1. The methodology of evaluation of IP assets Classification of Goods and Services for commercialization prospects. conformity check when analyzing con- fusingly similar signs for homogeneous 2. The prompt analytical data preparation: goods and services; current state, prospects. ⁕⁕ Approaches were identified to organizing paperwork on international registration 3. Key project results of the study on patent of industrial designs based on the analysis documents portfolio of the “Russian Railways”. of foreign IP Offices practices in countries members of the Hague Agreement: 4. Procedures for a study on patent docu- •• proposals were developed on introducing ments portfolio of a large company. changes into the paperwork technology on industrial designs international appli- 5. Results of research projects (15 in total). cations, including the issues of interaction between FIPS departments when Rospat- In 2020, Council faces the task of developing ent receives applicant’s opposition on a professional scientific communication on cur- negative decision for granting protec- rent IP issues, as well as of publishing main re- tion, and also when the owner is amended sults of research activity in academic journals. (in particular under assignment contract); •• taking into account foreign experience, Republic of Karachay-Cherkessia, Tambov proposals were developed on Rospat- Region, Vologda Region, Voronezh Region, ent’s publication of information on inter- Omsk Region, Ulyanovsk Region) for the national registrations of industrial designs Ministry of Economic Development of the with an indication of the Russian Feder- Russian Federation and Russian regions. ation as a receiving Office, and notifications of their legal status amendments; Rospatent, in cooperation with FIPS conducted: •• information on Rospatent’s website was ⁕⁕ Draft strategic documents analysis in re- actualized on the page “Geneva Act of gions (Republic of Tatarstan, Republic of Ka- the Hague Agreement Concerning the In- rachay-Cherkessia, Tambov Region, Volog- ternational Registration of Industrial De- da Region, Voronezh Region, Omsk Region, signs”, including methodological materials Ulyanovsk Region); FIPS prepared reviews and recommendations by FIPS specialists; on draft amendments to documents on ⁕⁕ analytical model for evaluation of the Rus- the strategic development of the region; sian IP system development in the industri- ⁕⁕ monitoring of the results of intellectual al property field was developed, including: activity use, created in the research and •• indicators system and methodology of development process financed from the their calculation; federal budget, on the basis of the 4-NT •• proposal on including the developed in- form (a list), final database on the identi- dicators into innovation development fied objects; programs for regional administrations ⁕⁕ analytical review of foreign IP field devel- and economic operators; opment strategies; •• draft technical requirement for creating ⁕⁕ review of previously developed versions software for implementing an analytical of IP strategies; model in Rospatent’s practical activity; ⁕⁕ analysis of complex information on the ⁕⁕ issues of qualified staffing in the IP field activity of authorities responsible for the were studied, ways of their resolving were regulation of the relations in the IP field in suggested: Japan and Australia; •• the model of system for professional ⁕⁕ analytical review in the IP field in countries training in the IP field, was developed in- members of the Eurasian Economic Union; cluding a list of specialists’ competences, ⁕⁕ analysis of the patent activity from the per- 88 taking into account the specifics of the spective of various economic activity fields; work; ⁕⁕ trends analysis of the main FIPS perfor- •• draft programs of further education in mance indicators; the IP field, were developed complying ⁕⁕ analysis of patenting in the priority and with the requirements for specialists promising fields of scientific and technolog- training, who are involved in the imple- ical development of the Russian Federation. mentation of the Strategy for Scientific and Technological Development of the During 2019, FIPS prepared the following ma- Russian Federation (at least 5), and the terials: appropriate teaching materials; ⁕⁕ for the Federal executive bodies: •• methodology of calculating the staffing •• analytical materials characterizing trends demand in the IP field in the economic of patent applications on inventions and sectors was developed; applications on trademark certificates for •• draft legal documents for specialist train- the Ministry of Economic Development ing in the IP field were developed. of the Russian Federation; •• proposals on for the draft evaluation Information on the research works conducted methodology of the influence the imple- under the FIPS Thematic Plan of Research mentation of scientific and technological Projects can be found on the FIPS webpage projects and programs within the Strat- in Scientific Activity Section. egy for Scientific and Technological De- velopment of the Russian Federation has In 2019, a number of research and statistical on macroeconomic and sectoral growth projects was realized, and in their framework in high-technology sectors of the Russian the following documents were developed: industry; ⁕⁕ Methodological recommendations on eval- •• proposals on enhancing the methodol- uation procedure of intangible assets mar- ogy of determining the statistical set of ket value (on a company’s request); the examined organizations combination ⁕⁕ Questionnaires on document quality evalu- that carry out technological innovations ation of the strategic development of the IP and methodologies of organizing federal field in a given region (Republic of Tatarstan, statistical monitoring; •• proposals for the Federal executive bod- •• materials for 80 presentations of Rospat- ies of the Russian Federal subjects to ent and FIPS administration for forums, implement in the period 2019–2021 the congresses, conferences, seminars, and Strategy of State National Policy of the also for collegial meetings of Rospatent Russian Federation until 2025; and Scientific and technological Council •• suggestions to the draft report to the of FIPS. Government of the Russian Federation on activities aimed at stimulating inno- The results of the scientific and research ac- vative development of the Russian Fed- tivity are also a foundation for the develop- eration; ment of FIPS educational programs. •• suggestions and comments on the draft state program “Scientific and techno- 6.1.3. Scientific activity of RSAIP logical development of the Russian Fed- eration”; Scientific activity of the Academy in 2019 was •• reviews on the professional standard conducted in form of scientific research, car- “Specialist in managing the intellectu- ried out by professors, academic staff and al property and technology transfer”; students; scientific research by graduate and draft standards “IP. Management in the undergraduate students; collaborative scien- credit organization”, “IP. Management in tific research by professors, academic staff the stock market”, “IP. Accounting and and students; scientific events (conferences, intangible assets”; on the draft federal forums, seminars). accounting standard “Intangible assets”; •• statistical data in the perspective of the In 2019, the Academy worked on conducting Federal subjects of the Russian Federa- research projects under contracts with ex- tion upon the request made by the Min- ternal organizations. During this period, two istry of Economic Development of the research projects were carried out: Russian Federation; •• statistical data on applications and issued 1. Patent research for LLC “Institute of Trans- protection certificates on all objects for neft”; intellectual property rights protection to foreign applicants upon the request 2. Analysis of the legal framework (from 1930 made by the Russian Federal State Sta- until the present day), contracts and other 89 tistics Service; documents, and preparation of the prelim- •• statistical data for forecast indicators inary conclusion on the value of results of calculation of the intellectual property intellectual property activity for Giprogor development field in the framework of Company. the trilateral agreement on the interaction between regions and the Min- In addition to the research works conducted istry of Economic Development of the for outside organizations, the Academy car- Russian Federation and Rospatent on ried out departmental and interdepartmen- the support of intellectual property de- tal research projects with their results being velopment field in the Russian Federal used in the educational process. The main subject; directions of research are: •• information on state measures for busi- ⁕⁕ application of measures against counter- ness support in the Russian Federation, feiting: current issues; provided within the framework of Of- ⁕⁕ legal literacy in the copyright field as a key fice’s activity; for the development (protection) of the •• analytical notes on patent activity of Russian language; Russian applicants and average terms of ⁕⁕ notary in the legal protection mechanism application examination on inventions, (theoretical and legal aspects); utility models, industrial designs and com- ⁕⁕ managing the modern innovative business; puter programs; ⁕⁕ innovative management mechanisms in •• statistical and analytical materials on creative industries; mass-media requests; ⁕⁕ venture accelerator; ⁕⁕ for Rospatent and FIPS administration: ⁕⁕ brand-management; •• 60 reports on innovation activity of re- ⁕⁕ managing projects in the blockchain tech- gions of the Russian Federation, 39 re- nology field; ports on innovation activity of foreign ⁕⁕ modern issues of the innovation manage- countries, more than 40 information ment theory and practice; and analysis reports for presentations ⁕⁕ managing human resources in innovative for Heads of Rospatent and FIPS; organizations. In 2019, RSAIP prepared 26 expert reports. services in 2019 is provided in Table 6.4 of An- Prepared reports assessed the topic of cop- nex to the Report. yright issues, patent law and individualization means. Conducting applied researches pro- Graduated in 2019: vides professors with good practical material to use during lectures and seminars. Faculty of the law: 74 graduates (50 – full-time, 24 – extramural education); During this period meetings of the Acade- my’s scientific schools were held: Copyright Intellectual Property Management Faculty: School, Industrial Property School, Intellectual 44 graduates (41 – full-time, 3 – extramural). Property Management School. Training of teaching and academic staff In 2019, the Academy in collaboration with the Russian Authors’ Society continued publishing In 2019 for the advanced training programs for academic and practical journal “Copyright”. teaching and scientific personnel, 12 students During this period four issues were published were accepted, including: with 66 articles in total. Journal’s materials are ⁕⁕ for the program 40.06.01 “Jurisprudence” – published under a licensing agreement in the 7 students (full-time), 3 students (extramu- “Garant” database. ral education), ⁕⁕ for the program 38.06.01 “Economics” – 2 students (full-time);

following the procedure of assignment for 6.2. preparation of dissertations for the Degree of Candidate of Science to the program 12.00.03 EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITY 7 students were accepted.

6.2.1. Specialists training in RSAIP As of the end of 2019, there were 62 students at the Graduate School of RSAIP, including In the Academy, education is carried out at 18 students on a scholarship, 44 students on the following level of training: a fee basis and 14 students assigned for dis- 90 ⁕⁕ training for a university degree; sertation without learning under the training ⁕⁕ training for teaching and academic staff; for teaching and academic staff program. ⁕⁕ further professional education. Academic supervision of graduate students Training of specialists with a higher educa- and doctoral researchers was conducted tion degree by 23 academics, among them –12 PhDs and 11 Doctors of Sciences. As of the end of year 2019, 406 students were enrolled at the Faculty of Law, with 212 full- In the Doctorate of RSAIP, in 2018 there were time students (73 students on a state schol- 2 students. Two contracts for preparation arship and 139 on a fee basis), 42 part-time for the defence of the doctoral dissertation students (undergraduate, on a fee basis) and were concluded. 152 extramural students (25 undergraduate on a fee basis and 127 graduate on a fee basis). In the Dissertation Council of RGAIS, in 2019, 7 PhD dissertations and 2 Doctor of Science At the Intellectual Property Management dissertations were defended successfully. All Faculty there are 242 students, with 186 full- dissertations were dedicated to the current time students (109 students on a state schol- issues of intellectual property. arship and 77 on a fee basis), 56 extramural students (undergraduate and graduate on Further professional education in RSAIP a fee basis). In 2019, RSAIP implemented 31 advanced The increase in the number of students training and professional retraining programs amounted to 3.3 % in comparison to 2018. on the basis of the Institute of further education and professional retraining of RSAIP. The The number of students on implemented total number of students trained on addition- educational programs at the expense of the al professional programs amounted to 435 state budget, of the budget of the Feder- students, including 356 students on advanced al subjects of the Russian Federation, local training programs (16 to 250 academic hours) budgets and on contracts on paid educational and 79 students on professional retraining programs (250 academic hours and more). In addition, training under the program “Re- 80 specialists continue their education under gional brands as an effective tool of economic professional retraining programs, 7 specialists development of regions” was received by the on advanced training with distance learn- specialists of the Ministry of the Industry and ing technologies, 359 students on advanced Economic Development of the Ryazan Region, learning programs. the Ministry of the Industry and Trade of Bury- atia Republic, the Ministry of Economic, Terri- In order to improve the level of staff training torial Development and Trade of the Chechen in the intellectual property field there were Republic, the Ministry of Entrepreneurship, developed and implemented three advanced Trade and Tourism of the Sakha Republic (Ya- training programs: kutiya), the Ministry of the Investments and ⁕⁕ “Regional brands as an effective tool of Development of the Sverdlovsk Region. economic development of regions”; ⁕⁕ intensive course for senior positions In 2019, specialists were trained under ad- “Turnover of rights on intangible assets as vanced programs for qualification exam a powerful tool for business economics preparations for patent attorney certification development; in the Russian Federation. In total, the training ⁕⁕ “Intellectual property in the digital econ- was provided for 113 students. omy”. Name Number of In September 2019, 8 specialists – represent- of the program students atives of the countries of the Caucasus, Cen- graduated tral Asia, and Eastern Europe – graduated un- Candidates training for patent 45 der the agreement between RSAIP and World attorneys. Trademarks, service Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) as marks, appellations of origin. a part of the Master of Business Administra- Candidates training for patent 47 tion (МВА) professional retraining program attorneys. Inventions and utility models. with a major in Project Management in the Intellectual Property Field. Candidates training for patent 13 attorneys. Programs for electronic computers, databases, layout As a part of realizing its functions as a Basic designs (topographies) of integrated organization for countries members of the circuits 91 Commonwealth of Independent States for Candidates training for patent 8 training, professional retraining, and advanced attorneys. Industrial designs. training in the intellectual property field, in RSAIP in 2019: 16 specialists graduated from In December 2019, the Academy in collabora- their professional retraining programs, 13 spe- tion with the University of National Techno- cialists will continue their training. logical Initiative 20.35, signed a contract for the provision of educational services for 1600 Countries Graduated Continue students under advanced training programs of in 2019 education further professional education: “Management of projects in the intellectual property field”. Republic of Kazakhstan 2 2

Turkmenistan 1 2 In November 2019, RSAIP successfully received Republic of Belarus 2 - state accreditation for the educational activity for the main educational programs at Republic of Armenia 2 2 each level of professional qualification degree Republic of Tajikistan 3 2 and at each major taught in the Academy. Kyrgyz Republic 3 - RGAIS received State Accreditation Certifi- cate No 3311 dated January 13, 2020. Republic of Azerbaijan 2 2

Republic of Uzbekistan 1 3 6.2.2. Further professional training for FIPS TOTAL: 16 13 specialists

One of the key objectives of the Federal Insti- In 2019 on the basis of the JSC Dzerzhinsky tute of Industrial Property development is a Research and Production Corporation “Ural- continuous improvement of the professional vagonzavod” 20 specialists received training skills of FIPS employees as a part of a Unified under the program “Mechanisms of efficient education system based on the continuity use of rights on results of intellectual activity”. principle, starting from the first day of employment. The main tool for this task in 2019 was a 6.2.3. Organization of supplementary vo- system of studies for various categories of cational training at FIPS for specialists of FIPS employees following the introduction organizations of new normative legal acts regulating rules and procedures for the provision of public To satisfy the national economy’s need in spe- services. cialists with a high level of professional competence in the field of intellectual property, This task was carried out by training em- Administration of Rospatent and FIPS made a ployees under technology training sessions decision to enhance the educational activities directly in the departments of FIPS and in of the Federal Institute of the Industrial Prop- group lessons. erty, taking into account the high professional competence of the expert staff of FIPS. In accordance with the Consolidated Plan on Internal Training of Employees in 2019, signed Activity on realizing the supplementary voca- by the Head of FIPS, 7 group sessions were tional programs is based under license series organized with 420 FIPS specialists attending. 77Л 01 No. 0008944 (reg. No. 038110), issued Moreover, 252 sessions were organized di- December 19, 2016 by the Moscow Depart- rectly in FIPS departments. In 2019, the main ment of Education; educational activity is focus during the study organizational process carried out since 2017. was placed on studying new normative legal acts in the field of providing public services, as In this period, during the sessions of the well as on the amendments to the Provision Scientific and Technological Council of FIPS, on patent and other fees. there were developed and approved 25 advanced training programs and 3 professional FIPS, by implementing a balanced human re- retraining programs, all aimed at improving source policy, draws particular attention to the level of the professional competence of the training of employee pool of state intel- employees in the intellectual property field. lectual property experts. Leading FIPS state IP experts, as well as external specialists and practitioners, are invited The key element of this training is “Expert-in- to teach. tern” program, during which young specialists 92 receive extensive theoretical and practical In order to coordinate the educational ac- experience by working in expert units under tivity of FIPS, a Scientific Educational Center the guidance of experienced mentors, and go was created. through training under specially developed advanced programs: In 2019, the Center trained 1092 specialists, with 1069 of them under advanced training “Training of expert interns under the program programs (55 specialists through distance “Training of experts conducting application learning); 23 specialists under professional examination for inventions and utility models” retraining program “Legal protection of the (232 academic hours); results of intellectual activity and their rights management”. “Training of expert interns under the program “Training of experts conducting application Therefore, the number of graduates from examination for trademarks” (126 academic the FIPS Center programs in 2019 increased hours). in two and a half times compared to 2018 and more than in twelve times compared to 2017. The first intake of the “Expert-intern” education program graduated in 2017, and in total, Cooperation with the corporate customers the number of students who received the for educational services is actively devel- training under the above-mentioned pro- oped: Russian Railways, Gazprom, Gazprom grams amounted to 25 students in 2017, 122 Neft, Siberian Coal Energy Company, Sibur, students in 2018, 88 students in 2019. Uralvagonzavod, Roscosmos, Rosatom, etc. The training was conducted in Novy Uren- The vast majority of expert-interns are as- goy, Tomsk, Satin-Petersburg, Nizhny Tagil and signed on a full-time basis to expert depart- other cities. ments of FIPS upon receiving the training, and as a result, the training and advanced training Graduates of the FIPS Scientific and tech- programs for expert staff of FIPS show their nological Council always emphasize the rel- effectiveness. evance of realized programs, their practical orientation, high qualification of teachers. One of the important directions for further ⁕⁕ ХХII Moscow International Inventions and development of the FIPS educational pro- Innovative Technology Salon “Archime- cess is the development of distance learn- des‑2019”; ing programs. In December 2018, educational ⁕⁕ Conference “Intellectual Property – 2019”; process under the distance learning program ⁕⁕ XII International Forum “Intellectual prop- “Introduction to the technology transfer” was erty – XXI century”; launched. In 2019, education continued under ⁕⁕ IX St. Petersburg International Legal Forum; distance learning programs “Building region- ⁕⁕ VII Congress of Technology and Innovation al brands”, “Recommendations on managing Support Centers (TISCs); the rights in the results of intellectual activity ⁕⁕ St. Petersburg International Economic Fo- and means of individualization in the regions rum – 2019; of the Russian Federation” (for regional ad- ⁕⁕ VI China-Russia EXPO; ministrations), “Commercial and regulatory ⁕⁕ Business Festival of Innovations and Digital specifics of pharmaceuticals turnover in the Technologies CEBIT RUSSIA; framework of intellectual property rights pro- ⁕⁕ International Military-Technical Forum tection”. In 2020, it is planned to expand the “ARMY‑2019”; range of such programs. ⁕⁕ INNOPROM – 2019; ⁕⁕ VII International Forum Of Technological FIPS is a base for conducting practical edu- Development “TECHNOPROM‑2019”; cation for RSAIP students and other leading ⁕⁕ II Khakassia Regional Business Forum “Not- Russian universities. Small Business”; ⁕⁕ VI BRICS International Competition Confer- Information on educational events organized ence “10 years of successful cooperation: by FIPS in 2019 is presented in Table 6.5 of results and prospects”; Annex to the Report. ⁕⁕ Eastern Economic Forum – 2019; ⁕⁕ WIPO National Seminar on the Patent Co- operation Treaty (PCT) System; ⁕⁕ XV International Inventions and Innovative Technology Salon “New Time”; 6.3. ⁕⁕ V Small and medium-sized Business Forum of the SCO and BRICS Regions; RAISING THE AWARENESS: FORUMS, ⁕⁕ Russian National Evening as part of the 59th 93 CONFERENCES, SEMINARS, ROUND series of meetings of the WIPO Assembly; TABLES, ETC. ⁕⁕ VII Moscow International Forum “Open In- novations”; For the purpose of promoting the intellectual ⁕⁕ Russia – Africa Summit and Economic Fo- property field, the activity of Rospatent and rum; its subordinate organizations, representatives ⁕⁕ International Customs Forum – 2019; of Rospatent and FIPS participate in the so- ⁕⁕ International Scientific and Practical Con- cially significant events on the international, ference “ Intellectual Rights: Challenges of federal and regional levels. the XXI Century”; ⁕⁕ International Forum “Orenburg – the heart During 2019, Rospatent took part in organizing of Eurasia”. and conducting 30 events dedicated to the current issues of theoretical and practical Presentations of Rospatent activities in the aspects of legal protection and use of the format of the exhibition stand were success- results of intellectual activity: fully held at eight forums: ⁕⁕ Х Gaidar Forum, Russia and the World: ⁕⁕ Krasnoyarsk Economic Forum – 2019; National Development Goals and Global ⁕⁕ INNOPROM – 2019 (collaborative participa- Trends; tion at the partner’s stand – Gazprombank); ⁕⁕ Russian Investment Forum – 2019; ⁕⁕ VII International Forum Of Technological ⁕⁕ Moscow Digital Forum; Development “TECHNOPROM‑2019”; ⁕⁕ CIS International Economic Forum “CIS: ⁕⁕ ХХII Moscow International Inventions and digital economy – integration platform”; Innovative Technology Salon “Archime- ⁕⁕ ХХ Intellectual Property Forum; des‑2019”; ⁕⁕ Krasnoyarsk Economic Forum – 2019; ⁕⁕ St. Petersburg International Economic Fo- ⁕⁕ V International Arctic Forum “Arctic: Region rum – 2019 (collaborative participation at of Dialogue”; the partner’s stand – Gazprombank); ⁕⁕ International Strategic Forum for Intellec- ⁕⁕ VI China-Russia EXPO; tual Property – IPQuorum 2019; ⁕⁕ International Customs Forum – 2019; ⁕⁕ Russian National Evening as part of the 59th ity and management of intellectual property series of meetings of the WIPO Assembly; through organizing and taking part in central and regional conferences, seminars and ex- During the forums, the stands of Rospatent hibitions dedicated to the current challenges provided: in the intellectual property field. ⁕⁕ Presentation materials and handouts to the participants of the events; For this purpose, in 2019 a series of meetings ⁕⁕ Consulting services both at Office’s exhibi- and discussions were held: tion space and at other forums/exhibition ⁕⁕ Rospatent Round Table “Legal protection venues. and promotion of regional brands as an important resource for economic develop- In addition, in the framework of the St. Pe- ment” within the framework of the XII Rus- tersburg International Economic Forum, there sian Chamber of Commerce and Industry were held grand ceremonies of signing of Forum; agreements between Rospatent and: ⁕⁕ Joint session of All-Russian Non-Govern- ⁕⁕ the Ministry of Economic Development of mental Organization of Small and Medium the Russian Federation; Business “Opora Russia” and Rospatent on ⁕⁕ the Government of the Republic of Tatar- discussion of issues of legal protection of stan; intellectual property by small and medium ⁕⁕ Administration of the Tambov Region; enterprises; ⁕⁕ the Government of the Leningrad Region; ⁕⁕ In cooperation with representatives of “Ar- ⁕⁕ Federal Customs Service of the Russian chimedes” Salon an All-Russian Meeting was Federation; held on the topic “Inventive, patenting and ⁕⁕ the Federal Agency for State Property Man- licensing activity as the main diversification agement (Rosimushchestvo); factor of production in the Military-indus- ⁕⁕ Russian Union of Public Associations “Youth trial complex”. Social and Economic Initiatives”. Rospatent established its nomination “Intel- In the framework of the ХХII Moscow Interna- lectual property is the future of my country” tional Inventions and Innovative Technology as a part of XVI “My country – my Russia” – the Salon “Archimedes‑2019”, the Rospatent In- all-Russian Youth Competition of author’s pro- 94 ternational Scientific and Practical Confer- jects and education projects aimed at social ence “Inventive, innovative, patenting and and economic development of Russian regions. licensing activity in the digital economy con- The main goal is to build and develop inventive text” took place. competencies, skills of project management in the intellectual property field among the young Within the Conference, a wide range of issues, people; to involve the younger generation in related to the intellectual property field, was scientific, project and innovative activity; to discussed. It included specifics of patenting communicate the information on promising solutions in the information technology field; developments to the professional community; issues of technological and business consult- to increase the communication levels between ing on the basis of the patent information, project developers and investment companies, issues of digital applications on the objects technology transfer centers. for the intellectual property rights protection. RSAIP employees participated in more than Representatives of FIPS and RSAIP shared 60 scientific events, including making pres- with the conference participants their expert entations. opinion on such an important topic as export- ing intellectual property, access to the FIPS Traditionally, the Academy organized and ac- databases at the Technology and Innovation tively participated in the events dedicated Support Centers. Moreover, issues of the in- to the celebration of the International Day ventive and innovative activity were studied of Intellectual Property, carried out within on the real-life cases. the framework of the XII International Forum “Intellectual property – XXI century”. In RSAIP The event was attended by more than 250 several events took place: the III All-Russian people. Conference for Young Scientists dedicated to current issues of intellectual property rights; Rospatent devotes great attention to engag- International Conference for Young Scien- ing in a dialogue with scientific and business tists “Intellectual Property – looking to the communities to discuss issues of the legal future”, as well as seminars and round tables, protection of the results of intellectual activ- all attended by undergraduate and graduate students of RSAIP, interested participants filing of applications for industrial designs, from other universities. computer programs, and databases”, “Your Account” service; four meetings were dedi- In 2019, RSAIP continued to implement aware- cated to program “Patent analytics lounges”, ness-raising, the scientific and educational organized by the Project Office of FIPS. project “Intellectual Landing Operation” (the project was launched in 2013), aimed at pro- Other thematic meetings focused on the moting knowledge in the intellectual property following: field among school and university students; ⁕⁕ “State registration of computer programs at covering legal and economic aspects of and databases”; the intellectual property, at identifying young ⁕⁕ “Using the patent analytics when patent- scientists and specialists in the intellectual ing inventions, utility models and industrial property field. In 2019, this event was hosted designs”; in Ufa by Bashkir State Pedagogical University ⁕⁕ “Specific aspects of using search systems named after M. Akmulla. on the FIPS website for conducting a search for information on various objects for intel- During this period, RSAIP continued the tradi- lectual property rights registration”; tion of holding “University Saturdays” – a pro- ⁕⁕ “Submitting and examining an application ject aimed at promoting information about for industrial designs in accordance with the Academy, its educational process and the Hague System for the International knowledge on the intellectual property field Registration of Industrial Designs”; among the students of Moscow high schools. ⁕⁕ “Examination of applications in the IT tech- Events were held in five Moscow schools. nology field”; ⁕⁕ “Using technological analytics for partic- In November RSAIP for the first time held ipating in state development programs”; an Intellectual Quiz “Legal Experts” for the ⁕⁕ “Methodology of preparing analytical re- students from the first to the third year of ports on inventive activity, intellectual studies, in celebration of the Lawyer’s Day. property and technological development for regional and sectoral administrations“; Scientific and awareness-raising activity of ⁕⁕ “Current issues of patenting industrial de- FIPS was conducted in accordance with the signs practice”; tasks stated in the set of legal and normative ⁕⁕ “Appellations of origin and regional brands”; 95 documents determining the development ⁕⁕ “The main mistakes made when filing appli- strategy of the information society1. cations for appellations of origin”; ⁕⁕ Meeting with representatives of patent law One of the types of scientific and aware- companies on “Increase in the patenting ness-raising activity is a thematic meeting. activity of applicants in the industrial de- During 2019, there were 29 thematic meetings signs sector”; conducted with administration and leading ⁕⁕ “Current issues of examining applications specialists of Rospatent and FIPS for the for trademarks”; applicants, right holders, patent attorneys, ⁕⁕ “Current issues of recognizing trademarks specialists in the intellectual property field, as well-known”; representatives of the business communi- ⁕⁕ “Listing the sequences of nucleotides and ty and other interested parties. Six of them amino acids when characterizing inventions were dedicated to topic “Electronic filing of in the biotechnological field”. WIPO Software applications for trademarks, inventions, ap- “WIPO Sequence” for the preparation of lists pellations of origin using the “ARM Registra- of sequences for the application materials tor” (Automated Working Space Registrator); in accordance with WIPO Standard ST.26”; and two meetings were on topic “Electronic ⁕⁕ “Discussing the issue of introducing amendments in the provision of paragraph 2 of Requirements for application materials 1 “On Education in the Russian Federation” dated 29 December 2012 г. №273-FZ; “Strategy for the scientific for issuing a patent for industrial design, and technological development of the Russian Feder- referring to the requirement of unity of ation” (Presidential Decree dated 01.12.2016 № 642); industrial design”; “On Strategy for information society development in the Russian Federation for the period of 2017–2030” ⁕⁕ “Managing rights on the results of the intel- (Presidential Decree dated 9 May 2017 № 203); “Digital lectual activity in an organization”; Economy of the Russian Federation” (Government ⁕ “Practice of application consideration relat- Directive dated 28.07.2017 №1632-р); Plan of measures ⁕ (“road-map”) “Kruzhok movement” of the National ing to the state registration of exclusive rights Technological Initiative (Annex to the protocol of the deposition and applications for introducing Presidium of the Presidential Council for Economic the amendments to the State Registry and Modernisation and Innovation of the Russian Federa- tion dated 18 July 2017 № 3). to the Certificate. Common mistakes”. In total, 2428 people participated in the center of Moscow Education Department) above-mentioned events, including 1718 peo- participated in the meetings on technological ple from Moscow, 102 people from Moscow security, service and light industry, industrial Region, 81 people from 25 Russian cities, as equipment and communication systems, as well as 527 people in video-conference for- well as students of Moscow universities: Gu- mat, organized by 11 entities that have Tech- bkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas, nology and Innovation Support Centers sta- Russian State Social University, MIREA – Rus- tus. sian Technological University, RSAIP, Institute Of Business Studies of the Russian Presiden- FIPS All-Russian Patent And Technical Library tial Academy of National Economy and Public (VPTB) conducts active awareness-rais- Administration under the President of the ing work among young people. This activity Russian Federation, Lomonosov Moscow State contributes to the development of inven- University, Moscow Aviation Institute (Nation- tive thinking, forms functional literacy in the al Research University and College of Law). field of intellectual property rights protection, There were 18 meetings held in 2019 with 664 patent culture, and parenting among young participants in total. people. The work is carried out in several directions. 3. Interaction with the community of libraries. There were organized four webinars at the 1. Interaction with network organizations Russian State Library for Young Adults with working with gifted children in the field of seven presentations held: “Exhibition projects technical creativity: Federal Network of chil- on the basis of funds as an element of educa- dren’s technoparks “Quantorium”, Education- tional activities of a library”, “FIPS All-Russian al Center “Sirius”, Program “Step towards the Patent And Technical Library Exhibition pro- future”, “School patent”, etc. In 2019 3 face- ject “The driving force of change: Women in to-face seminars for children, 8 webinars on innovation and creativity”; “Young inventors – the intellectual property for children and the driver of progress”, “Popular alphabet of technopark mentors were conducted, ded- intellectual property”, “Inventions for libraries icated to the following topics: “Information from a legal point of view”, “Patent informa- resources”, “Patent search”, “Information tion”, “Information products of FIPS All-Rus- Resources DesignView and TMView”, “Legal sian Patent And Technical Library”. Webinar 96 protection and project safety”, “Algorithm of materials were published for public access submitting an application for an invention”, in the Internet and were viewed 4553 times “Think as an inventor” (competition winners in 2019. FIPS All-Russian Patent And Technical announcements and awarding FIPS certifi- Library specialists also took an active part in cates), “Innovation ideas trends of children conferences, seminars, and forums held by inventors”, “Part 4 of the Civil Code of the Russian libraries. Russian Federation”, “Search, examination, registration of inventions”, presentations of 4. New project “Intellectual Property at 56 the exhibition projects “Discovery of the new Height” was initiated, and within its frame- era for natural sciences” and “Arctic: driver work, a set of lectures and workshops was for economic growth”, “What should inven- held: “It is time to learn about intellectual tor know?”, “Patent analytics as an inventor’s property”, “Three pillars of intellectual prop- tool”. There were more than 340 connections erty”; “Trends of innovative ideas of children to the webinars from technoparks. During the inventors”, “What is a patent and why is it im- IV Convention for young inventors in Kazan, portant?”; “Trademark as a way of promoting FIPS organized seminar on intellectual prop- youth entrepreneurship”, “Success case of a erty, etc. In total, there were 1349 participants young inventor “; “How to navigate the world in these events. of patent and non-patent information (databases)” and a workshop on “Patent search 2. Awareness-raising projects in the intellectu- on a given topic” + the case: application sub- al property knowledge popularization among mission algorithm. the young people, college and university students with FIPS state experts and other spe- 5. Various awareness-raising events held at cialists in the intellectual property field. There FIPS. In 2019 there were 414 participants at are two big projects being implemented by the following events: FIPS All-Russian Patent And Technical Library: ⁕⁕ Meeting with professors and students of “Inventors NEXT” and “Scientific Yough on the Stroganov Moscow State Academy of Intellectual Property”. Students of Moscow Arts and Industry, Moscow State Art and colleges of Moscow Education Department Cultural University; round table and excur- (with cooperation with City methodological sion as a part of an internship for first-year RSAIP students and retraining programs ⁕⁕ International Research and Practical Con- students.; ference “Rumyantsev Readings – 2019” (Rus- ⁕⁕ Meeting with representatives of Non-Profit sian Library Association); Partnership “Wikimedia RU”; ⁕⁕ International Forum Fest “Intellectual Prop- ⁕⁕ Meeting with representatives of the Na- erty For Future”, St.Petersburg; tional Electronic Library and a workshop ⁕⁕ International Conference “Science, Tech- on “Search capacities of the National Elec- nology And Information In Libraries” (LIB- tronic Library”; WAY‑2019), Irkutsk (Skype Connection); ⁕⁕ Rospatent Museum excursion and work- ⁕⁕ IV Biblio-Forum (XI International Research shop on a patent search for representa- and Practical Conference “Information tives of the state corporations “Roscos- Technology in Medical Libraries”), Aktobe, mos” and “Rosatom”; Republic of Kazakhstan; ⁕⁕ Russian Language Day in Rospatent: “Rus- ⁕⁕ Round Table “Museum as a space for edu- sian is the language of innovations”. cation”, held by Gubkin Russian State Uni- versity of Oil and Gas and Russian Academy 6. Awareness-raising seminars on intellec- of Education as a part of the International tual property for the young audience and Year of the Periodic Table of the Chemical scientific and research community within Elements events; the framework of Russian and internation- ⁕⁕ Intellectual Property Conference “Trade- al forums, conferences, project and tech- mark Registration as a way of protecting nological schools with the participation of intellectual property of a company or for an FIPS All-Russian Patent And Technical Library individual entrepreneur”, organized jointly specialists and FIPS experts. In 2019, public by Serkons company and FIPS; lectures, seminars and master classes were ⁕⁕ International Conference “Digital Transfor- held at various venues, including: mation: Focus on IP”; ⁕⁕ ХХII Moscow International Inventions and ⁕⁕ All-Russian Science Fest “Nauka 0+” in Mos- Innovative Technology Salon “Archime- cow and Russian Regions. des‑2019”, Conference “Inventive, innovative, patenting and licensing activity in the In 2019, FIPS All-Russian Patent And Tech- digital economy context”, Moscow; nical Library organized, held and took part ⁕⁕ 5th International Professional Forum “Book. in total in more than 100 awareness-raising Culture. Education. Innovation” (Crimea‑2019), events with the total number of participants 97 Sudak. Within the forum framework a special amounting to more than 12.6 thousand peo- event “Rospatent Day” took place, dedicated ple, including distance participants from eight to the topic “Digital transformation of the Federal Districts. intellectual property field”; ⁕⁕ XXIII International Conference and Exhi- In 2019, the following exhibition projects were bition “LIBCOM‑2019”. “Information tech- implemented by the FIPS All-Russian Patent nologies, computer systems and publishing And Technical Library on the basis of resourc- products for libraries”, Suzdal; es of the State Patent Collection and with ⁕⁕ International Military-Technical Forum material contributions and exhibits provided “ARMY‑2019”, Kubinka; by co-organizers of exhibitions (Russian mu- ⁕⁕ X Public Awards Ceremony “For the contri- seums, archives, etc.): bution to the intellectual property”. Pan- ⁕⁕ temporary exhibitions in the Rospatent el discussion for young inventors “School Museum and FIPS buildings: “Intelligence at Patent” in the framework of the XII St. Pe- the service of the theatre”, photo-exhibi- tersburg International Innovation Forum, tions “Theatrical Moscow” and “The Bolshoi St. Petersburg; Theatre”, dedicated to the Theatre Year in ⁕⁕ II Annual Summit of Young Scientists and the Russian Federation; “Arctic: driver for Engineers “Big challenges for the Society, economic growth. Breakthrough into the the State and the Science”, Sochi; future” and two photo-exhibitions dedi- ⁕⁕ Scientific and practical conference and the cated to the history of Arctic region devel- 3rd Interregional IRBIS School. “National opment and its present state; “Discovery Electronic Library Search Capacities” Sem- of the new era for natural sciences”, com- inar, St. Petersburg; memorating the International Year of the ⁕⁕ XI Forum “Days of Intellectual Property in Periodic Table of the Chemical Elements. the Northwestern Federal District”, St. Pe- In total 2291 people visited the exhibitions tersburg; in 2019; ⁕⁕ 73rd International Youth Scientific Confer- ⁕⁕ mobile exhibitions “Engineering genius of ence “Oil and Gas – 2019” (Gubkin Russian Shukhov”, organized as a part of the aware- State University of Oil and Gas); ness-raising project “Intellectual Property at Height 56”, visited by Moscow citizens tion, Autonomous Non-Profit Organization and tourists (more than seven thousand “Digital Economy”, Association for the De- people); “The history of inventive thought velopment of Cluster and Technology Parks in the Russian Empire”, presented at the of Russia, Moscow City Telephone Network, 5th International Professional Forum National Technology Transfer Association), “Book. Culture. Education. Innovation” Patent Analytics Day, Presentations in the (Crimea‑2019) (Sudak, Republic of Crimea) “My country – My Russia” competition, special and visited by more than one thousand foreign section, as well as a business game for people; young people and pitch-session with Russian ⁕⁕ virtual exhibitions “Discovery of the new Venture Company investors, Business Accel- era for natural sciences”, “Arctic: driver for erator “Ledokol”, Startup show, TED-lecture. economic growth” for mentors and stu- During the Conference, Agreements were dents of the Federal Chain of children’s signed between FIPS and Nexia Pacioli Group technoparks “Quantorium” (1126 people of Companies, Stroganov Moscow State Acad- from 65 Federal Subjects of the Russian emy of Arts and Industry, Moscow City Tele- Federation). phone Network, National Technology Transfer Association, and INNOKAM. The conference To publicly promote the documents of the was visited by 893 participants, including 165 State Patent Collection, five thematic col- speakers, 46 foreign participants, and speak- lections of Russian patent documents were ers from 20 countries. For participants a se- prepared and published in the National Elec- ries of activities were organized: art-show tronic Library: “Vladimir Shukhov (1853–1939). “Human in the world of digital transformation: Outstanding Russian scientist and engineer”; challenge accepted”, excursions to the open “The driving force of change: Women in in- funds of Polytechnical museum and to resi- novation and creativity”; “Intelligence at the dents of Special Economic Zone “Technopolis service of the theatre”, “Young inventors – the Moskva”, AR-matrix “FOCUS ON IP” in SPHE- beginning of a long path”, “Lev Termen – the ROID UNIVERSE AR app (App Store/Goog- inventor of the Theremin”. le Play), “Promobot” robot with conference details and photo printing, photo areas and Social media profiles of the FIPS All-Russian selfies using AI, “Digital artist” module, table Patent And Technical Library are constantly football. More than 70 reporters attended the 98 updated with the new information: Instagram, Conference, the media posted more than 30 Facebook, VKontakte, with total of 2757 sub- publications, more than 190 messages and TV scribers and group members. stories were published, and 78 interviews with participants. Online broadcasting was organ- Rospatent participance in all significant ized (number of views on the Rospatent/FIPS events always has comprehensive informa- Youtube channel – 1500). tion support (preparation of texts of press releases, announcements, interviews, com- In order to create positive image of the ac- ments with further publication of information tivities of Rospatent and its subordinate on the websites of the Office, in the media, institutions in the framework of preparing in social networks). Thus, in the “Conferences and carrying out socially significant events, and Seminars” and “Thematic Meetings” Sec- in cooperation with video and TV-signal con- tions there were published: 603 articles on tractors there were created: the Rospatent Website, 849 articles on the ⁕⁕ promotional videos: FIPS Website, including reposts. •• 2.0 International Conference “Digital Transformation: Focus on IP”; With Rospatent transitioning to digital for- •• 2.0 International Conference “Digital mats of interaction with consumers of public Transformation: Focus on IP” 3. Strategic services, which is characterized by reducing session #Focus on IP”; the terms, increasing the availability, transpar- •• Story on 2.0 International Conference ency and security of provided public services, “Digital Transformation: Focus on IP”; the implementation of blockchain technology and artificial intelligence methods into Ro- ⁕⁕ reporting videos: spatent activities are being carried out. •• Collegial Meeting of Rospatent; •• Results of the 2.0 International Confer- For this purpose, in 2019 the 2nd International ence “Digital Transformation: Focus on IP”; Conference “Digital Transformation: Focus •• Results of the XXIII Rospatent Interna- on IP” was held. The conference program tional Conference; included 2 plenary sessions, 19 working sec- •• Opening of the National Cultural Event tions, 7 partner sections (Skolkovo Founda- of the Russian Federation in WIPO’s report. The speech of Head of Rospatent, ber 24, 2019); 8356 (mentioning Rospatent Grigory Ivliev at the regional WIPO sem- as a key monitoring object from January 1, inar on the Patent Cooperation Treaty 2019 to December 24, 2019); (PCT) System; ⁕⁕ FIPS: 3667 (total number of media references from January 1, 2019 to December ⁕⁕ interviews with participants of the XXIII Ro- 24, 2019); 1549 (mentioning FIPS as a key spatent International Conference: monitoring object from January 1, 2019 to •• Lilia Gumerova – Chair of the Federation December 24, 2019). Council Committee on Science, Educa- tion, and Culture; Instagram and Facebook pages are constantly •• Saule Tlevlessova – Eurasian Patent Or- updated. Statistics on official Rospatent and ganization (EAPO) President; FIPS accounts on Facebook: •• Grigory Ivliev – the Head of Rospatent; ⁕⁕ number of posts in Rospatent’s account: •• Anton Ishchenko – Chairman of the Cen- 504; tral Council of the All-Russian Society of ⁕⁕ number of posts in FIPS account: 408. Inventors and Innovators; ⁕⁕ On Rospatent Facebook accounts 21 videos •• Natalia Zolotykh – Vice-President of were published and created. Including: “OPORA RUSSIA”. ⁕⁕ on Rospatent International Conference – 6; ⁕⁕ IP-Academy – 2; All video materials are published on the Ro- ⁕⁕ on 2.0 International Conference “Digital spatent website, link: https://rupto.ru/ru/ Transformation: Focus on IP”; – 2; sourses/multimedia/video/ and on the official ⁕⁕ on Collegial Meeting of Rospatent – 2; Youtube channel https://youtu.be/ ⁕⁕ Grigory Ivliev’s Interview – 4; ⁕⁕ Other topics – 5. In collaboration with subcontractors, during the events, online-broadcasting was organ- Public’s interest in the official website was ac- ized: tively supported by the official Facebook page ⁕⁕ 2.0 International Conference “Digital Trans- of the Office. There were 3575 subscribers as formation: Focus on IP”; of December 31, 2019, 27 % more than by the ⁕⁕ Plenary session at 2.0 International Confer- end of 2018; the number of likes amounted to ence “Digital Transformation: Focus on IP”; 3137 (24 % more) without additional advertis- ⁕⁕ Collegial Meetings of Rospatent; ing for subscribers’ involvement. 99 ⁕⁕ XXIII Rospatent International Conference. The total coverage of publications was more Regular interaction with media representa- than 260 thousand users. Despite the relative- tives was established (responses to requests ly low number of subscribers, the Rospatent’s for comments, preparation of comments, Facebook page posts consistently showed interviews, etc.). Key publications statistics high levels of user engagement (clicks on pho- in media and on official Rospatent and FIPS tos or post links, likes on posts, comments, websites: and reposts). ⁕⁕ Rospatent: 22048 (total number of media references from January 1, 2019 to Decem- 7 MODERN PATENT ANALYTICS. FIPS PROJECT OFFICE PRACTICE O. Neretin, O. Ena,

Director, Federal Institute of Industrial Head, FIPS Project Office Property

INTRODUCTION

Since 2016, Rospatent has a specialized divi- Our customers (Russian Railways, United sion called FIPS Project Office, which provides Engine Corporation, Novolipetsk Steel, Rus- expert and analytical support to the Russian sian Export Center, Gazprom, Gazpromneft, companies on a wide range of tasks, including Transneft, etc.) used the results of consulta- analysis of investment options, assessment of tions with the FIPS Project Office to adjust the competitiveness of Russian technologies, their R&D programs and plans, assess the ways of production diversification, search for prospects for financing new projects and the best available technologies, etc. identify technologies that can be successfully traded on foreign markets. 102 In three years, over 50 projects were completed for various economic sectors: oil and gas, transport, chemical industry, metallurgy and ICT. 7.1. ⁕⁕ cataloging of modern technologies and products on a given topic; INSIGHT MANAGED ANALITICS ⁕⁕ determining the maturity and methods of legal protection of technologies; The key features of the FIPS Project Office’s ⁕⁕ analysis of product lines of global leading products and services are an in-depth techni- companies; cal analysis of the most valuable technologies ⁕⁕ monitoring and analyzing of promising in- and products of industry-leading companies, vestment areas; as well as our in-house methodology of in- ⁕⁕ identification of potentially valuable tech- sight-driven patent analytics, which provides nical solutions in the patent portfolio; tailored practical recommendations to Rus- ⁕⁕ strengthening legal protection for valuable sian companies on how to react to certain technologies and products of the custom- activities of the world’s leading companies er. (such as product development or market launch) in the field of customer’s technolog- 26 projects were completed in 2019: ical priorities. ⁕⁕ 7 domain-specific patent landscapes for the following companies: PJSC Gazprom- Industries, in which more than 3 complex pro- neft, PJSC United Engine Corporation, JSC jects have been completed: Tactical Missile Armament Corporation, PJSC Sibur, and PJSC Transneft. Our work on 1. Oil and gas: upstream. We have earned ex- these patent landscapes is closely linked to tensive experience in the field of hydraulic the technological priorities and key inno- fracturing, increased oil recovery, intensi- vations of the companies’ own innovation fication of inflow, etc.; development programs, which allows applying the results obtained to define and 2. Oil and gas: downstream. We have earned correct the client’s development strategy, extensive experience in the field of hydro- as well as at the operational level in the cracking, catalytic cracking, isomerization, making-up of R&D portfolios and the pur- alkylation, etc.; chase of promising technologies. ⁕⁕ 9 Express patent landscapes, including 3 on 3. Oil and gas: middle stream. We have earned digital technologies. Work performed for extensive experience in the field of mon- the following companies: OJSC Novolipetsk itoring and diagnostics of oil pipelines, re- Steel, JSC Rostelecom, JSC InfoWatch, and covery of oil product vapors, reduction of international law firm Dentos. The open hydraulic losses, energy efficiency, etc.; express landscape Smart City is also published in the English version. 4. Rail transport. We have earned extensive ⁕⁕ 1 Patent technology intelligence for Sibe- 103 experience in the field of railway infrastruc- rian Coal Energy Company PJSC (SUEK). ture, power plants, diagnostic equipment, Patent technology intelligence is aimed at etc.; identifying and analyzing technologies and products of leading companies in the field 5. ICT. We have earned extensive experience of the client’s activities. in the field of AI, 5G networks, quantum ⁕⁕ 3 R&D Entourage research projects for PJSC technologies, predictive analytics, and Gazprom. R&D Entourage is a specialized Smart city systems. tool for monitoring R&D prospects. R&D En- tourage toolkit provides a comprehensive Furthermore, complex projects have been view of trends and directions in patenting completed for the engine building sector, for the purpose of outlining a promising chemical, coal and metallurgical industries, R&D project, which is then proposed for as well as for the military-industrial complex. implementation within the framework of government programs or as a portfolio of Using our products and services, we solve the high-tech projects of a large company. following tasks: ⁕⁕ 6 specialized research projects for PJSC ⁕⁕ search for the best modern technologies Gazprom. and products in the sphere of the customer’s interests; The dynamics of new projects is shown in ⁕⁕ determining the customer’s place on the the figure. technological world landscape; ⁕⁕ analyse of the strategies for legal protection of technologies and products of leading companies Figure ADVANCED PATENT LANDSCAPE Dynamics of new projects’ completion Advanced patent landscape is an extension 26 of the Express patent landscape with some important features of the domain-specific 22 patent landscape. In contrast to the Express patent landscape, the extended patent landscape involves thorough domain modeling, a detailed search strategy, semi-automatic quality control of the patent collection, se- 6 lective tagging, and description on 2 model 2 bases. Some restrictions are imposed on the number of patent families in the collection and on the search depth. At the same time, 2016 2017 2018 2019 the research time is reduced to 2.5 months (which is twice as fast as the domain-specific patent landscape), while the cost of work is 7.2. reduced by 2.5 times compared to the cost of the domain-specific patent landscape. CONSULTING PRODUCTS AND SERVICES

FIPS Project Office is constantly expanding 7.3. its range of products and services, trying to cover as many business problems as possible OLD AND NEW BUSINESS TASKS that require patent analytics. The extension of the product line has led FIPS In addition to the products which have be- Project Office to an extension of the range of come classic ones (such as domain-specif- business tasks solved with the help of patent ic patent landscape and patent technology analytics. The most important business tasks intelligence), new analytical products were have been worked out within complex indus- launched in 2019. The most important new try projects. products of 2019 are: Business needs and solutions: COMPREHENSIVE SUPPORT IN ACQUISITION ⁕⁕ analysis of promising areas of testing: com- OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES parison of different technological areas, detailed technological analysis of the most This product includes a variety of services, valuable industry technologies, identifica- 104 the final set of which is determined by the tion of technologies aimed at solving in- results of expert meetings with the customer. dustry problems (service life, accuracy, sensitivity, etc.); The services include: ⁕⁕ modern go-to-market strategies: analysis ⁕⁕ identification of potentially patentable of the scope of patent strategies of global solutions based on R&D materials, initial leading companies, analysis of the pace and design data and other technical documen- gaps of technology protection in different tation; countries, technologies that are most im- ⁕⁕ comparison of the customer’s technologies portant for industry leading companies; with those of leading industry companies; ⁕⁕ new areas of application of technologies: ⁕⁕ monitoring of technical solutions of com- analysis of the scope and application areas peting companies; of leading companies’ products, identifi- ⁕⁕ search for target companies which hold cation of specifications with contrasting the technologies that are profitable for modes and methods of application (differ- the customer to purchase; ent voltage, low temperatures, etc.). ⁕⁕ assessment of the prospects for commercialization of the customer’s technologies, combining patenting and know-how for 7.4. thorough legal protection of commercially attractive technologies of the customer; DEVELOPMENT OF COMPETENCIES ⁕⁕ support for technology transfer in Russia and abroad (with the involvement of spe- The Project Office develops competencies in cialized foreign companies. patent analytics in four following ways: 1. Continuous professional education. In 2019, 7.5. employees of the FIPS Project Office obtained 21 international certificates, includ- EDUCATIONAL AND TRAINING ing one international certificate for tech- PROGRAMS ON PATENT ANALYTICS nology transfer and technology licensing (WIPO-CIPI–INPI), 8 international certifi- By accumulating unique competencies, the cates for professional patent search (WIPO Project Office actively promotes modern ap- DL‑318) as well as 12 international certifi- proaches to patent analytics. cates for intellectual property management (WIPO DL‑450). In addition, Project Office In 2019, we have continued the work on de- employees undergo continuous training in veloping tools for Russian scientific and ed- data mining (Python programming, machine ucational organizations used to identify and learning, etc.). specify scientific and technological priorities based on search and analysis of patent data. 2. Analysis of sources and updating the knowledge base on patent analytics. We regularly In 2019, a range of events was organized to pro- monitor the most interesting publications in pose new FIPS analytical products in the field order to compile a Compendium of the FIPS of information and analytical support for the Project Office on patent analytics (which implementation of the Strategy for Scientific includes scientific journals, Twitter feeds, and Technological Development of the Rus- research, third-party patent landscapes). sian Federation, determining the scientific and As of December 31, 2019, the Compendium technological priorities of economic sectors, of the Project Office includes more than 1 high-tech companies, and Russian scientific thousand scientific articles and reports. and educational organizations. In order to highlight and promote modern methodological 3. Proactive participation in conferences and approaches and analytical tools, FIPS has devel- business forums. Project Office specialists oped training program on patent analytics for participate in almost all Russian and for- participants in the Russian innovation system. eign events on patent analytics and technology policy making. Every year, the FIPS In order to reveal the nuances and breadth of Project Office holds an exhibition stand at scope of patent analytics, the Project Office the EPOPIC, the largest European confer- held 6 Patent Analytics Lounge seminars on ence on patent information. Employees the following topics: of the FIPS Project Office deliver presentations and participate in round tables 1. Technological disclosure at foreign conferences. Head of the FIPS Project Office Oleg Ena is invited to mod- 2. Patent families 105 erate major oil and gas congresses (such as Petrochemical & Refining Congress), and 3. Patent citation delivers keynote speeches at international IP conferences (IP World Summit, IP Energy 4. Technology transfer Summit, etc.) In 2019 the FIPS Project Office has participated in more than 80 events, 5. Dates including both specialized conferences and corporate universities of leading Russian 6. Patenting IT solutions companies. Complete videos of Patent Analytics Lounge 4. Analysis of feedback from completed pro- are available free of charge on the Project jects. As the project completion advances, Office’s Facebook channel Project Office employees analyze their progress and the difficulties they have encoun- Employees of the Project Office lectured tered. This practice allows us to make each within the framework of educational pro- new project better and more complete, grams of the FIPS Research and Education both in terms of patent analytics applica- Center and the Russian Research Institute tion and in terms of industry particularities. “Center” on the following topics: The results of the analysis obtained for the ⁕⁕ IP Management oil and gas industry, transport, metallurgy, ⁕⁕ IP Marketing digital technologies and other sectors of ⁕⁕ Technology management based on patent the economy are summarized and used analytics in new projects with the necessary adap- ⁕⁕ Diversification of the Military-industrial tation. complex 7.6. legal support of transactions with foreign companies for direct (purchase) and reverse OPENNESS TO PARTNERSHIP (sale) technology transfer.

One of the promising areas of development of In order to scale up technology consult- the Project Office is the growth of expertise ing based on patent analytics, a network of in the field of modern technology manage- franchisee centers is being developed in the ment. regions of Russia. Such centers perform research in the field of patent analytics (mainly In 2019, we started working with the enter- Express patent landscapes) with established prises in Russia and abroad (France, Sweden, quality indicators and under the supervision Singapore) in related areas of technology of the FIPS Project Office. management, such as marketing research, technology transfer support, corporate know- Although we already have the existing coop- how, financial audit, asset valuation, etc. erative network, the FIPS Project Office pays great attention to further development of This collaboration provides us with a wide partnerships. Cooperation within the win-win scope of expertise in technology manage- concept with other centers of competence ment, including closing the last mile of tech- and expertise is a priority task of the Project nology transfer, which is documentary and Office.

106 107 8 ROSPATENT IN THE PROJECT “OPEN GOVERNMENT” E. Kiseleva,

Director, Financial- Administrative Department

INTRODUCTION

Implementation of the concept of the of the potential of promising employees in Rospatent openness was ensured in 2019 order to increase their professional level. due to transparency of financial activities of the Office, strengthening of personnel po- A lot of attention was paid to anti-corruption tential with highly qualified specialists, an- measures with the organization of ongoing ti-corruption measures and prevention of monitoring of implementation of the events other offenses, improvement of quality and in this sphere by subordinate organizations. availability of information resources on official Rospatent website. The development of the structure of the official Rospatent website, including the section In 2019, Rospatent ensured the growth of in- “Open Data”, allowed Rospatent to double come to the federal budget, the full amount increase the use of open data by users of of which significantly exceeded the expenses the website compared with 2018 and to get of the State on Rospatent functions. the first place in the rating “Federal executive bodies. Open data”. Official accounts of Rospatent and FIPS personnel reserves were Rospatent in social networks intensified the formed based on detection and maximal use interest of users in the activities of Rospatent and raised the traffic of the official website.

110 8.1. In addition, according to the results of the competition, 3 people were added to the MAIN FINANCIAL INDICATORS OF candidates pool. ROSPATENT In December 2019, Rospatent conducted a The federal budget revenues administered by review of Rospatent federal state civil em- Rospatent in 2019 amounted to 7679,1 million ployees (hereinafter – civil employees). Ac- rubles. cording to the results of the review, all civil employees were recognized as relevant to Compared to 2018, in 2019, the federal budget their position, 12 civil employees were added revenues increased by 581.8 million rubles to the candidates pool of Rospatent. (table 7.1 of Annex 7 to the Report). Intercourse with employees in subordinate in- The expenses of Rospatent are carried out stitutions is also aimed at attracting new can- from the federal budget and income-gen- didates in order to replace available vacant erating activities of subordinate institutions. posts, special attention is paid to increasing the number of examiners (see table 7.3 of In 2019, Rospatent expenses amounted to Annex 7 to the Report). 4 019 201.7 thousand rubles, including the federal budget funds (3 532 166.4 thousand rubles) In 2019, in order to attract new specialists for (87.9 % of the total expenses), income-gener- the examiners job, FIPS continued the realiza- ating activities (487 035.3 thousand rubles) tion of internship programs “Inventions and (12.1 % of the total amount) (table 7.2 of Annex Utility Models” and “Trademarks”. 7 to the Report). The interns received theoretical training in groups under specially designed programs. At the same time, they mastered the practical skills of the state examiner under the guid- 8.2. ance of experienced specialists. 72 interns were hired in 2019 (“Inventions and Utility HUMAN-RESOURCES AND ANTI- Models” – 39 people, “Trademarks” – 32 peo- CORRUPTION ACTIVITIES ple).

The human-resources policy of Rospatent In addition, Rospatent posted information is conducted in accordance with the re- about vacant posts on the Internet; interact- quirements of Federal Law No. 79-FZ dated ed with specialized universities through the 27.07.2004 “About the Civil Public Service of Career divisions of graduates and students the Russian Federation”. Attraction of high- and Employment centers around Moscow and ly skilled specialists to the public service in the Moscow region. Employees of the HR Divi- Rospatent is one of the components of the sion alongside with employees from industry human-resources policy. examiner divisions represented FIPS in career fairs. In 2019, FIPS appointed 150 people for In this regard, in 2019 information on vacant examiner positions. 111 positions was published on the official Ro- spatent Internet website, as well as on other The candidates pool of Rospatent and FIPS job search resourses . was formed in order to identify and amplify promising employees, to maximize their po- A competition for filling vacant positions in the tential, to increase the level of motivation for state civil service was held in Rospatent in 2019. professional growth and to further stimulate them to improve their educational level and Totally 15 people were hired by Rospatent in professional qualifications. 2019, among them: ⁕⁕ 2 people – according to the results of the 37 FIPS employees take training in the mag- competition; istracy of the Russian State Academy of In- ⁕⁕ 4 people – under a terminal contract (for tellectual Property (RSAIP) under master the period of maternity leave of the main programs “Law”, “Management”, “Intellectual employee); Property Management”. In 2019, 19 FIPS em- ⁕⁕ 8 people – for positions with the perfor- ployees are going to study at the RSAIP mag- mance of duties which is related to admis- istracy under the master program “Law”, as sion of state secrets; well as 1 FIPS employee is going to study at the ⁕⁕ 1 person is hired from the candidates pool. RSAIP graduate studies to receive additional education under the “Master of Business Ad- responsibilities include participating in the ministration (MBA)” program. anti-corruption measures (1 person), including training of civil employees, who just started As part of the anti-corruption policy in 2019 the civil service on educational programs in in Rospatent, an effective Commission was the sphere of anti-corruption (2 people). established to comply with the official conduct requirements of federal state civil em- As part of the implementation of paragraph ployees of the Federal Intellectual Proper- 28 of the National Anti-Corruption Plan for ty Service and employees of organizations 2018–2020, training for FIPS senior staff was created to fulfill the tasks assigned to the conducted under the continuing education Federal Intellectual Property Service and program in the sphere of anti-corruption to resolve conflict of interest (hereinafter – (7 people). the Commission). In connection with the organizational and staffing events, under Rospatent continues to monitor the person- order of Rospatent dated July 8, 2019, a new nel management in regard to the conduction structure of the Commission was approved, of civil personnel records, including the up- the information about it was posted in the dating of the information contained in the special section on anti-corruption issues questionnaires which are received by Rospat- on the official website of Rospatent in the ent during admission to the civil service. information and telecommunication network Internet. Rospatent organized quarterly monitoring by subordinate institutions on the implemen- The division for public service and human-re- tation of various activities in the sphere of sources, control and document management anti-corruption. of the Financial and Administrative Depart- ment for the prevention of corruption and Rospatent is conducting an anti-corruption other offenses (hereinafter – the Division) inspection of statutory and regulatory enact- provides practical and methodological assis- ments, their projects and other documents tance to Rospatent employees and subordi- in order to identify corruption factors and nate organizations on anti-corruption issues, their subsequent elimination. Independent including control after the fulfillment of the experts participate in this work. obligation to notify the representative of the employer of other paid work. In 2019, 17 notifi- Posted information is regularly updated on cations addressed to the Head of Rospatent the official Rospatent website, in a special about the intention to perform other paid section on anti-corruption issues. work were received. A trust line on anti-corruption issues is func- In the current year, in Rospatent state civil tioning in Rospatent in order to ensure the employees never failed to comply with any immediate access for residents and organi- restrictions, prohibitions and non-fulfillment zations to give information about corruption of anti-corruption obligations, as well as there or violation of any requirements for official weren’t any violations of restrictions regard- behavior of civil employees. 112 ing the reception of gifts and the procedure for gifts handing-over. In connection with pro- Rospatent takes the necessary organizational tocol events, business trips and other official and technical measures to strengthen the on- events, the participation in which is related site regime in Rospatent and its subordinate to the official position or the performance of institutions to ensure transparency of con- official duties, in 2019 the Division received 3 tacts between civil employees of Rospatent notifications on reception of a gift. All gifts and subordinate institutions with business are accepted for accounting. representatives and individuals.

In 2019, as part of measures aimed at creating Anti-corruption issues in Rospatent and its a negative attitude to corruption, Rospatent subordinate institutions, in accordance with and its subordinate institutions employees the plan, are considered at briefing sessions were informed about the provisions of the with the Head of Rospatent. Russian Federation anti-corruption legislation, the effects of corruption on society and As part of the ongoing anti-corruption work in sanctions for corruption offenses. the Rospatent system, the website of the Rus- sian Academy of Intellectual Property (RSAIP) In 2019, career enhancement was provided created a section on anti-corruption issues. by federal state civil employees, whose job Also in the section “Additional Documents” there is a check-list worked-out by the uni- “Scientific and Technical Council”, “Objects versity on anti-corruption in RSAIP. of Patent Law”, “Rospatent and the Regions”, “International Cooperation”, “The Hague Sys- Also, higher education programs in the direc- tem”, “WIPO Standards”, “Cooperation with tion of 40.04.01 “Jurisprudence”, training pro- MGSIS”. The section “State Services”, “Docu- files “Legal Protection of Intellectual Property” ments and Forms” and others were updated. and “Legal Protection and Protection of Intel- lectual Property”, all forms of training with- 8.3.1. Realization of the openness plan of the in the framework of the variable part of the Office curriculum provide the study of the discipline “State anti-corruption policy”. In the framework In the “Open Data” section, in accordance of the discipline, the issues of the concept of with the Schedule for disclosure of priority corruption as a social phenomenon, the main socially significant data sets, 23 sets, metafiles causes of corruption, international acts and and passports of open data were updated in acts of the Russian Federation on combating a machine-readable format. New open data corruption, a national strategy and a national sets were added: RSAIP educational programs, anti-corruption plan, law enforcement practice RSAIP paid educational services, Dynamics of on combating corruption are considered. registration of military, special and dual-purpose RIAs, the rights to which belong to the Russian Federation. a potential evaluation form is added for disclosing the open data set “Register of trademark applications”. The 8.3. “Open Rospatent” section regularly contained full information on the activities of collegi- REALIZATION OF THE CONCEPT OF al and advisory bodies of Rospatent in 2018: OPENNESS OF ROSPATENT Public Council, Scientific and Technical Coun- cil, Board of the Office, Quality Council. The The proportion of visitors to the “Open Data” agendas, records and decisions of the meet- section of the official website of Rospatent ings, as well as the reports that were made increased by 27 % compared with 2018. at the meetings, are timely published both in news on the activities of the relevant bodies The content and structure of the Rospatent and in special sections on their activities. website (www.rupto.ru), representing the activities of Rospatent within its competence, 8.3.2. Work of the official Rospatent website reflected the most important issues of the functioning of the intellectual property pro- The development of the official Rospatent tection system in Russia. website (www.rupto.ru) is aimed at increasing the satisfaction of citizens, the scientific Press releases about the events relating to and creative public, representatives of the the activities of Rospatent and events in the business community, federal executive au- system of intellectual property protection thorities of Russia, foreign patent offices and were regularly posted, over 950 publications representatives of international organizations in total, which is 146 % more than a year earlier. with the Rospatent involvement, with quality, 113 reliability and the completeness of informa- New sections of the site were developed and tion provided by Rospatent on the need for opened: “Regional brands and appellations protection and methods of protecting the of origin”, “Multimedia”, “Public initiative”, results of intellectual activity and means of “Consultations on current issues of users”, individualization, information on registered “OS Commissions”, “Results of cooperation results of intellectual activity; stimulation of and interaction of Rospatent with regions patent activity of Russian residents and for- of the Russian Federation”, “Guidelines and eign applicants; access of citizens, society and recommendations on the implementation of business to full and up-to-date information administrative procedures and actions in the on the activities of Rospatent via the Internet framework of provision of public services”. in a machine-readable form.

In accordance with the principles of open- In 2019, new sections of the website were ness, the sections “Rospatent in the Open developed: “Legislative website map”, “Tast Government System”, “Structure and Guide”, programs”, “Rospatent Annual report 2018”, “Plans”, “Open Data”, “Public Council”, “Quality “Tools of open Rospatent”, “Recommenda- Council”, “Board of Rospatent”, “Council by tions for managing IP in the regions”, “Working Rospatent on the legal protection of design”, with reference groups”, “Human Resources”, “Civil Protection”, “Keeping the Register of In the “Patent of the Week” section, devoted Patent Attorneys of the Russian Federation”, to the most interesting patents that Russian “Schedule of Qualification Exams for Certi- inventors received, 38 technical solutions fication of Patent Attorneys of the Russian were published, that according to examiners Federation”, “Training Videos”, “Methodology of the Federal Institute of Industrial Property, for the Development of Patent Landscapes”. have great potential for implementation and commercialization. In accordance with the principles of openness, the sections “Plans”, “Collegial and Ad- Press-releases on events related to the activ- visory Bodies”, “Public Council”, “Anti-Cor- ities of Rospatent and the intellectual proper- ruption”, “Structure and Management”, ty protection system are regularly published “Control and Supervision in the sphere of on the official website, 1,452 publications (53 % Legal Protection and Use of the Results of more than in 2018). Intellectual Activity created at the expense of the federal budget”. “Patent Attorneys”, Website traffic in 2019 amounted to 62,043 “Glossary”, the data in the sections “State unique users per month, which is 40 % more Services”, “Documents and Forms” and oth- than in a previous year. ers were updated. The service “Search for payments of Rospatent” was updated. The Interest in the Rospatent official website was “Electronic Services of Rospatent” section supported with the help of the official page is being updated too. on Facebook, containing interesting materials on the topic of patent law, publications on Special attention is paid to improving the outstanding inventions, and answers to user methodological support for the provision of questions. The number of page subscribers as public services for state registration of the of December 31, 2019 amounted to 3,575 peo- results of intellectual activity and means of ple, which is 27 % more than at the end of 2018; individualization. The section “Regulatory legal the number of “Likes” – 3137 (24 % more) without acts” contains the Guides covering adminis- additional costs for advertising and attracting trative procedures and actions carried out subscribers. The total coverage of publications within the framework of public services. amounted to more than 260,000 users.

Most popular sections of the Rospatent official website

Title Views Indications

Homepage of the Rospatent website 720 450 288 320

Tables of types of legally significant actions and fees 197 250 69 180

114 Information resources of Rospatent 104 530 54 820

Open data 75 410 49 160

Contacts 86 210 47 320

Search 70 610 44 320

Fees and payments 119 230 43 900

State registration of a trademark, service mark, collective mark 106 240 41 990

Public services 60 100 34 760

Slip for payment of patent fees 76 140 27 350

Patent attorneys 27 350 25 320

State registration of a computer program or a database 59 290 23 640

Regulatory documents 44 500 23 090

Patent and other fees 67 210 20 140

Answers 29 780 17 250 115

ANNEX TO THE ANNUAL REPORT Includes data on the activities of Rospatent in 2019 ANNEX 1 TO SECTION 1 OF THE REPORT

Table 1.1 TRADEMARKS AND SERVICE MARKS: Dynamics of filing and consideration of applications for state registration of a trademark of the Russian Federation in 2015–2019

Indicators 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2019 in % to 2018 Total number of applications filed in the 61477 64762 73510 76062 87509 115.05 Russian Federation following the state procedure (out of them) 43762 50639 56332 58658 69705 117.03 by Russian applicants 34304 41523 46600 49122 58816 119.93 by foreign applicants 9458 9116 9732 9536 10089 105.80 following the international procedure within 17715 14123 17178 17404 18804 108.04 the Madrid Agreement or Protocol total e number of applications at the exami- 63266 73690 73411 83654 82914 99.12 nation stage (out of them)

total number of decisions taken following the 57738 67398 66264 80147 76945 96.00 examination results Decisions to grant a legal protection 47097 58393 56849 70157 66062 94.16 Rejections 10271 8596 9035 9507 10512 110.57 Decisions to withdraw the application 370 409 380 483 371 76.81 Withdrawal and rejection at the stage of 5528 6292 7147 3507 5969 170.20 formal examination

Table 1.2 TRADEMARKS AND SERVICE MARKS: Dynamics of trademarks’ registration

Indicators 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Total number of signs registered 43042 55191 56030 66006 66707 out of them: addressed to Russian applicants 20539 28898 31062 39880 40501 addressed to foreign applicants 22503 26293 24968 26126 26206 out of these, legal protection in the territory of 14073 16395 15965 16753 17303 the Russian Federation was granted to marks filed under the Madrid Agreement and Protocol Number of extended signs 13929 16360 17503 17777 16383 out of them: 118 addressed to Russian applicants 8372 10140 10558 10726 10591 addressed to foreign applicants 5557 6220 6945 7051 5792 Number of valid registrations at the end of the year* 340441 370090 393984 426137 457570

* Excluding applications filed under the Madrid Agreement Table 1.3 TRADEMARKS AND SERVICE MARKS Distribution of applications filed in 2019 by Russian applicants (by Federal Districts of the Russian Federation)

Federal districts and constituent Total Num- Federal districts and constituent Total Num- entities of the Russian Federation ber of Ap- entities of the Russian Federation ber of Ap- plications plications Central Volga Belgorod Region 399 Republic of Bashkortostan 1023 Bryansk Region 221 Kirov Region 353 Vladimir Region 481 Mari El Republic 122 Voronezh Region 608 Mordovia Republic 63 Ivanovo Region 304 Nizhny Novgorod Region 982 Kaluga Region 420 Orenburg Region 221 Kostroma Region 288 Penza Region 309 Kursk Region 284 Perm Krai 617 Lipetsk Region 227 Samara Region 914 Moscow 20100 Saratov Region 300 Moscow Region 5706 Republic of Tatarstan 1469 Oryol Region 101 Udmurt Republic 330 Ryazan Region 212 Ulyanovsk Region 330 Smolensk Region 186 Chuvashia Republic 241 Tambov Region 113 Total in the District 7274 Tver Region 305 Ural Tula Region 391 Kurgan Region 70 Yaroslavl Region 344 Sverdlovsk Region 1341 Total in the District 30690 Tyumen Region 405 Northwestern Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug 182 Arkhangelsk Region 132 (Yugra) Vologda Region 193 Chelyabinsk Region 964 Kaliningrad Region 315 Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug 36 Republic of Karelia 120 Total in the District 2998 Komi Republic 48 Siberian Leningrad Region 489 Altai Republic 36 Murmansk Region 59 Altai Krai 512 Nenets Autonomous Okrug 1 Irkutsk Region 382 Novgorod Region 108 Kemerovo Region 253 Pskov Region 69 Krasnoyarsk Krai 616 Saint Petersburg 5116 Novosibirsk Region 1422 Total in the District 6650 Omsk Region 377 Southern Tomsk Region 324 Adygea Republic 115 Tuva Republic 6 Astrakhan Region 88 Republic of Khakassia 165 Volgograd Region 281 Total in the District 4093 Kalmykia Republic 23 Far Eastern Krasnodar Krai 1801 Amur Region 170 Buryatia 88 Republic of Crimea 508 119 Rostov Region 1005 Jewish Autonomous Region 11 Sevastopol 151 Zabaykalsky Krai 50 Total in the District 3972 Kamchatka Krai 51 North Caucasian Magadan Region 36 Republic of Dagestan 258 Primorsky Krai 629 Republic of Ingushetia 8 Sakha Republic 115 Kabardino-Balkarian Republic 114 Sakhalin Region 71 Karachay-Cherkess Republic 82 Khabarovsk Krai 228 North Ossetia–Alania Republic 80 Chukotka Autonomous Okrug 0 Stavropol Krai 875 Total in the District 1449 Chechen Republic 73 Total in the District 1490 Total 58616 Table 1.4 TRADEMARKS AND SERVICE MARKS Comparative characteristics of filed applications (by Federal Districts of the Russian Federation in 2019)

Federal Trademarks and Service Marks Applications District Number % of the total number of applica- of requests tions of Russian applicants Central 30690 52,36 Volga 7274 12,41 Northwestern 6650 11,35 Siberian 4093 6,98 Southern 3972 6,78 Ural 2998 5,11 North Caucasian 1490 2,54 Far Eastern 1449 2,47

Total: 58616 100

Table 1.5 TRADEMARKS AND SERVICE MARKS Distribution of registered trademarks (by Federal districts of the Russian Federation in 2019)

Federal districts Total Federal districts Total and constituent entities Number and constituent entities Number of the Russian Federation of Appli- of the Russian Federation of Appli- cations cations Central Saint Petersburg 3924 Belgorod Region 282 Total in the District 5080 Bryansk Region 191 Southern Vladimir Region 289 Adygea Republic 64 Voronezh Region 454 Astrakhan Region 52 Ivanovo Region 211 Volgograd Region 210 Kaluga Region 226 Kalmykia Republic 8 Kostroma Region 176 Krasnodar Krai 1162 Kursk Region 176 Republic of Crimea 303 Lipetsk Region 154 Rostov Region 679 Moscow 13746 Sevastopol 115 Moscow Region 3688 Total in the District 2593 Oryol Region 90 North Caucasian Ryazan Region 153 Republic of Dagestan 140 Smolensk Region 112 Republic of Ingushetia 2 Tambov Region 82 Kabardino-Balkarian Republic 67 Tver Region 184 Karachay-Cherkess Republic 46 Tula Region 234 North Ossetia–Alania Republic 58 120 Yaroslavl Region 221 Stavropol Krai 537 Total in the District 20669 Chechen Republic 52 Northwestern Total in the District 902 Arkhangelsk Region 107 Volga Vologda Region 142 Republic of Bashkortostan 441 Kaliningrad Region 214 Kirov Region 216 Republic of Karelia 86 Mari El Republic 69 Komi Republic 49 Mordovia Republic 44 Leningrad Region 388 Nizhny Novgorod Region 683 Murmansk Region 45 Orenburg Region 183 Nenets Autonomous Okrug 0 Penza Region 249 Novgorod Region 74 Perm Krai 432 Pskov Region 51 Samara Region 598 Federal districts Total Federal districts Total and constituent entities Number and constituent entities Number of the Russian Federation of Appli- of the Russian Federation of Appli- cations cations Saratov Region 330 Novosibirsk Region 1120 Republic of Tatarstan 1136 Omsk Region 352 Udmurt Republic 291 Tomsk Region 214 Ulyanovsk Region 165 Tuva Republic 1 Chuvashia Republic 208 Republic of Khakassia 77 Total in the District 5045 Total in the District 3057 Ural Far Eastern Kurgan Region 58 Amur Region 78 Sverdlovsk Region 1139 Buryatia 71 Tyumen Region 264 Jewish Autonomous Region 7 Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug 113 Zabaykalsky Krai 51 (Yugra) Kamchatka Krai 23 Chelyabinsk Region 610 Magadan Region 25 Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug 10 Primorsky Krai 434 Total in the District 2194 Sakha Republic 69 Siberian Sakhalin Region 31 Altai Republic 17 Khabarovsk Krai 171 Altai Krai 382 Chukotka Autonomous Okrug 1 Irkutsk Region 281 Total in the District 961 Kemerovo Region 164 Krasnoyarsk Krai 449 Total 40501

Table 1.6 TRADEMARKS AND SERVICE MARKS Comparative characteristics of the issuance of certificates (by Federal Districts of the Russian Federation in 2019)

Federal Trademarks and Service Marks Applications District Number % of the total number of applica- of requests tions of Russian applicants Central 20669 51,03 Northwestern 5080 12,54 Volga 5045 12,46 Siberian 3057 7,55 Southern 2593 6,40 Ural 2194 5,42 Far Eastern 961 2,37 North Caucasian 902 2,23

Total: 40501 100

121 Table 1.7 TRADEMARKS AND SERVICE MARKS Applications filed by foreign applicants from 15 countries organizations with the highest number of applications in 2019

Applicant Total number of applications filed Including the Country by foreign applicants Madrid Agreement Procedure Trade- Service Total Trade- Service Total marks marks marks marks The People's Republic of China 4343 307 4650 2803 239 3042 (PRC) The United States of America (USA) 3455 644 4099 1639 359 1998 EUIPO 3175 264 3439 3175 264 3439 The Federal Republic of Germany 1572 77 1649 1237 70 1307 France 1497 100 1597 1274 89 1363 Switzerland 1389 92 1481 906 78 984 Italy 1087 57 1144 941 49 990 The United Kingdom of Great Britain 872 118 990 533 68 601 and Northern Ireland Japan 929 56 985 621 39 660 The Republic of Korea 812 82 894 373 26 399 Turkey 550 46 596 476 42 518 Ukraine 398 93 491 257 62 319 Benelux Trademark Office 402 46 448 402 46 448 The Republic of Belarus 380 43 423 169 20 189 Cyprus 317 63 380 6 6 12 Others 5087 540 5627 2288 247 2535 Total 26265 2628 28893 17100 1704 18804

Table 1.8 TRADEMARKS AND SERVICE MARKS Applications filed by foreign applicants from 15 countries organizations with the highest number of applications in 2019 (Rating)

Applicant Country Total number 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 of applications The People's Republic of China (PRC) 4650 6 3 3 2 1 The United States of America (USA) 4099 1 1 1 1 2 EUIPO 3439 2 2 2 3 3 The Federal Republic of Germany 1649 3 4 4 4 4 France 1597 4 5 5 5 5 Switzerland 1481 5 6 6 6 6

122 Italy 1144 7 7 7 7 7 The United Kingdom of Great Britain 990 9 8 8 9 8 and Northern Ireland Japan 985 8 9 9 8 9 The Republic of Korea 894 14 10 11 10 10 Turkey 596 10 13 12 12 11 Ukraine 491 11 14 14 14 12 Benelux Trademark Office 448 13 11 10 11 13 The Republic of Belarus 423 - - 15 - 14 Cyprus 380 12 12 13 13 15 Others 5627 - - - - - Total 28893 - - - - - Table 1.9 TRADEMARKS AND SERVICE MARKS Registration of marks of foreign applicants from 15 countries organizations with the highest number of registrations in 2019

Applicant Total number Rating Country of registrations 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 The People's Republic of China (PRC) 4091 6 4 3 3 1 The United States of America (USA) 3804 1 1 1 1 2 EUIPO 3094 2 2 2 2 3 The Federal Republic of Germany 1797 3 3 4 4 4 France 1538 4 6 5 5 5 Switzerland 1399 5 5 6 6 6 Italy 1148 7 7 7 7 7 The United Kingdom of Great Britain 947 8 8 9 9 8 and Northern Ireland Japan 812 9 9 8 8 9 The Republic of Korea 712 13 10 10 10 10 Turkey 496 10 11 12 12 11 Ukraine 467 11 12 11 11 12 Benelux Trademark Office 366 15 15 15 - 13 The Republic of Belarus 357 14 14 14 13 14 Cyprus 356 12 13 13 14 15 Others 4822 - - - - - Total 26206 - - - - -

Table 1.10 INVENTIONS: Dynamics of filing and consideration of applications of the Russian Federation

Indicators 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2019 in % to 2018 Total number of applications filed to 45517 41587 36454 37957 35511 93,56 Rospatent Out of them: From Russian applicants 29269 26795 22777 24926 23337 93,63 From foreign applicants 16248 14792 13677 13031 12174 93,42 Total number of applications at the exam- 42459 46206 49115 49329 49700 100,75 ination stage Out of them: Decisions to issue a patent, including 31534 34283 33988 34756 34458 99,14 to Russian applicants 19481 21054 21422 19402 20371 104,99 123 to foreign applicants 12053 13229 12566 15354 14087 91,75 Rejections, including 1569 1613 1147 1951 4039 207,02 to Russian applicants 1216 1245 856 1703 3866 227,01 to foreign applicants 353 368 291 248 173 69,76 Decisions to withdraw the application, 6909 7407 10082 8698 7117 81,82 including made by Russian applicants 3976 3563 6946 5203 4651 89,39 made by foreign applicants 2933 3844 3136 3495 2466 70,56 International searches on international 2447 2903 3898 3924 3958 100,87 applications Transformed into the application for - - - - 128 - another object of IPR protection Table 1.11 INVENTIONS: Dynamics of issued patents of the Russian Federation

Indicators 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2019 in % to 2018 Total number of issued patents 34706 33536 34254 35774 34008 95,06 Out of them to Russian applicants 22560 21020 21037 20526 20113 97,99 to foreign applicants 12146 12516 13217 15248 13895 91,13

Table 1.12 INVENTIONS: The number of valid patents of the Russian Federation as of December 31, 2019

Total number of valid patents as of December 31, 2019 256419 Total number of issued patents in 2019 (inventions) 34008 Total number of patents terminated in 2019 (upon expiration and/or due to non-payment of the 26739 maintenance fee (according to the decisions of Rospaten)t Valid on December 31, 2019 263688

Table 1.13 INVENTIONS: Distribution of applications filed by Russian applicants (by Federal Districts of the Russian Federation in 2019)

Federal districts and Total Applications Federal districts and Total Applications constituent entities of filed by constituent entities of filed by the Russian Federation Entities Individ- the Russian Federation Entities Individ- uals uals

Central Northwestern Belgorod Region 157 111 46 Arkhangelsk Region 79 42 37 Bryansk Region 49 38 11 Vologda Region 70 51 19 Vladimir Region 178 63 115 Kaliningrad Region 69 56 13 Voronezh Region 424 357 67 Republic of Karelia 43 26 17 Ivanovo Region 99 67 32 Komi Republic 44 28 16 Kaluga Region 169 139 30 Leningrad Region 67 30 37 Kostroma Region 61 22 39 Murmansk Region 27 20 7 Kursk Region 238 161 77 Nenets Autonomous 0 0 0 Okrug Lipetsk Region 65 48 17 Novgorod Region 56 34 22 Moscow 5298 3840 1458 Pskov Region 53 27 26 Moscow Region 3314 918 2396 124 Saint Petersburg 3180 1472 1708 Oryol Region 72 63 9 Total in the District 3688 1786 1902 Ryazan Region 131 110 21 Southern Smolensk Region 36 24 12 Adygea Republic 12 5 7 Tambov Region 80 72 8 Astrakhan Region 69 60 9 Tver Region 133 83 50 Volgograd Region 277 205 72 Tula Region 121 89 32 Kalmykia Republic 23 23 0 Yaroslavl Region 155 118 37 Krasnodar Krai 487 351 136 Total in the District 10780 6323 4457 Federal districts and Total Applications Federal districts and Total Applications constituent entities of filed by constituent entities of filed by the Russian Federation Entities Individ- the Russian Federation Entities Individ- uals uals

Republic of Crimea 58 19 39 Khanty-Mansi Autono- 48 21 27 mous Okrug (Yugra) Rostov Region 538 333 205 Chelyabinsk Region 242 160 82 Sevastopol 38 25 13 Yamalo-Nenets Autono- 34 32 2 Total in the District 1502 1021 481 mous Okrug North Caucasian Total in the District 1017 700 317

Republic of Dagestan 86 71 15 Siberian Republic of Ingushetia 1 0 1 Altai Republic 1 0 1 Kabardino-Balkarian 60 59 1 Altai Krai 169 120 49 Republic Irkutsk Region 155 126 29 Karachay-Cherkess 5 0 5 Republic Kemerovo Region 170 134 36 North Ossetia–Alania 79 65 14 Krasnoyarsk Krai 411 262 149 Republic Novosibirsk Region 503 392 111 Stavropol Krai 152 103 49 Omsk Region 219 173 46 Chechen Republic 23 21 2 Tomsk Region 288 246 42 Total in the District 406 319 87 Tuva Republic 0 0 0 Volga Republic of Khakassia 18 13 5 Republic of Bashkorto- 562 360 202 stan Total in the District 1934 1466 468 Kirov Region 87 49 38 Far Eastern Mari El Republic 85 68 17 Amur Region 55 50 5 Mordovia Republic 47 37 10 Buryatia 37 23 14 Nizhny Novgorod Region 352 255 97 Jewish Autonomous 39 32 7 Region Orenburg Region 74 58 16 Zabaykalsky Krai 25 17 8 Penza Region 142 84 58 Kamchatka Krai 9 4 5 Perm Krai 322 218 104 Magadan Region 8 3 5 Samara Region 431 240 191 Primorsky Krai 164 129 35 Saratov Region 206 161 45 Sakha Republic 55 47 8 Republic of Tatarstan 760 611 149 Sakhalin Region 9 4 5 Udmurt Republic 135 79 56 Khabarovsk Krai 92 70 22 Ulyanovsk Region 147 123 24 Chukotka Autonomous 0 0 0 Chuvashia Republic 117 67 50 Okrug Total in the District 3467 2410 1057 Total in the District 493 379 114

Ural Federal District is unknown Kurgan Region 48 26 22 Total by the District 50 33 17

Sverdlovsk Region 513 377 136 125 Tyumen Region 132 84 48 Total 23337 14437 8900 Table 1.14 INVENTIONS: Distribution of patents, granted to Russian applicants in 2019 (in by Federal regions of the Russian Federation)

Federal districts and Total Issued patents Federal districts and Total Issued patents constituent entities of Entities Individ- constituent entities of Entities Individ- the Russian Federation uals the Russian Federation uals Central Volga Belgorod Region 175 138 37 Republic of Bashkortostan 625 455 170 Bryansk Region 57 53 4 Kirov Region 86 61 25 Vladimir Region 197 82 115 Mari El Republic 75 64 11 Voronezh Region 503 416 87 Mordovia Republic 59 52 7 Ivanovo Region 76 67 9 Nizhny Novgorod Region 380 295 85 Kaluga Region 170 141 29 Orenburg Region 109 97 12 Kostroma Region 47 18 29 Penza Region 130 77 53 Kursk Region 290 177 113 Perm Krai 296 242 54 Lipetsk Region 40 29 11 Samara Region 444 278 166 Moscow 5281 4126 1155 Saratov Region 223 166 57 Moscow Region 1338 906 432 Republic of Tatarstan 702 604 98 Oryol Region 66 60 6 Udmurt Republic 126 83 43 Ryazan Region 127 112 15 Ulyanovsk Region 156 136 20 Smolensk Region 27 23 4 Chuvashia Republic 97 80 17 Tambov Region 93 91 2 Total in the District 3508 2690 818 Tver Region 124 89 35 Ural Tula Region 147 112 35 Kurgan Region 46 25 21 Yaroslavl Region 186 154 32 Sverdlovsk Region 481 388 93 Total in the District 8944 6794 2150 Tyumen Region 124 106 18 Northwestern Khanty-Mansi Autono- 44 21 23 Arkhangelsk Region 77 52 25 mous Okrug (Yugra) Vologda Region 68 57 11 Chelyabinsk Region 276 199 77 Kaliningrad Region 75 67 8 Yamalo-Nenets Autono- 36 36 0 mous Okrug Republic of Karelia 34 28 6 Total in the District 1007 775 232 Komi Republic 52 35 17 Siberian Leningrad Region 55 33 22 Altai Republic 1 1 0 Murmansk Region 25 23 2 Altai Krai 158 113 45 Nenets Autonomous 0 0 0 Okrug Irkutsk Region 156 136 20 Novgorod Region 51 28 23 Kemerovo Region 173 131 42 Pskov Region 29 19 10 Krasnoyarsk Krai 405 313 92 Saint Petersburg 1758 1417 341 Novosibirsk Region 485 396 89 Total in the District 2224 1759 465 Omsk Region 227 193 34 Southern Tomsk Region 358 316 42 Adygea Republic 13 6 7 Tuva Republic 1 1 0 Astrakhan Region 66 55 11 Republic of Khakassia 13 13 0 Volgograd Region 270 226 44 Total in the District 1977 1613 364 Kalmykia Republic 20 20 0 Far Eastern Krasnodar Krai 548 441 107 Amur Region 55 52 3 Republic of Crimea 83 45 38 Buryatia 25 23 2 Rostov Region 494 315 179 Jewish Autonomous 10 10 0 Region Sevastopol 41 24 17 126 Zabaykalsky Krai 22 18 4 Total in the District 1535 1132 403 Kamchatka Krai 2 1 1 North Caucasian Magadan Region 7 5 2 Republic of Dagestan 86 67 19 Primorsky Krai 182 160 22 Republic of Ingushetia 3 2 1 Sakha Republic 66 61 5 Kabardino-Balkarian 67 59 8 Republic Sakhalin Region 7 4 3 Karachay-Cherkess Re- 7 0 7 Khabarovsk Krai 97 79 18 public Chukotka Autonomous 0 0 0 North Ossetia–Alania 93 79 14 Okrug Republic Total in the District 473 413 60 Stavropol Krai 161 119 42 Federal District is unknown Chechen Republic 17 15 2 Total by the District 11 5 6 Total in the District 434 341 93 Total 20113 15522 4591 Table 1.15 INVENTIONS: Comparative characteristics of filed applications (by Federal Districts of the Russian Federation in 2019)

Federal Applications District Number % of the total number of applica- of filed applications tions of Russian applicants Central 10780 46,19 Northwestern 3688 15,80 Volga 3467 14,86 Siberian 1934 8,29 Southern 1502 6,44 Ural 1017 4,36 Far Eastern 493 2,11 North Caucasian 406 1,74 District is unknown 50 0,21 Total: 23337 100

Table 1.16 INVENTIONS: Applications filed by Russian applicants from 15 regions of the Russian Federation with the highest number of applications in 2019

Region Applications Total out of them: From entities from individuals Moscow 5298 3840 1458 Moscow Region 3314 918 2396 Saint Petersburg 3180 1472 1708 Republic of Tatarstan 760 611 149 Republic of Bashkortostan 562 360 202 Rostov Region 538 333 205 Sverdlovsk Region 513 377 136 Novosibirsk Region 503 392 111 Krasnodar Krai 487 351 136 Samara Region 431 240 191 Voronezh Region 424 357 67 Krasnoyarsk Krai 411 262 149 Nizhny Novgorod Region 352 255 97 Perm Krai 322 218 104 Tomsk Region 288 246 42 Others 5954 4205 1749 127 Total: 23337 14437 8900 Table 1.17 INVENTIONS: Applications filed by foreign applicants from the 15 countries with the highest number of applications in 2019

Country Number of applications filed % to the applications filed in 2018 The U. S.A. 2862 89,69 Germany 1364 85,46 Japan 1292 82,71 China 1071 140,37 Switzerland 785 83,16 France 692 95,19 The Netherlands 512 84,35 Sweden 448 122,07 Italy 424 88,70 The U. K. 422 82,91 The Republic of Korea 397 109,67 Austria 160 86,02

Denmark 157 100,64 Belgium 148 95,48 Finland 141 105,22 Others 1299 100,39

Total: 12174 93,42

Table 1.18 INVENTIONS: Dynamics of the issued patents of the Russian Federation divided by individuals and legal entities (by year)

Applicants 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Total number of Russian appli- 22560 21020 21037 20526 20113 cants entities 16039 12094 15082 14277 15522 individuals 6521 8926 5955 6249 4591 Total number of foreign appli- 12146 12516 13217 15248 13895 cants including: Entities 11662 12178 12978 15009 13629 Individuals 484 338 239 239 266 128 Total number of issued patents 34706 33536 34254 35774 34008 including: to entities 27701 24272 28060 29286 29151 to individuals 7005 9264 6194 6488 4857 Table 1.19 INVENTIONS: Distribution of applications filed in 2019 (divided by the International Patent Classification (IPC) Sections)

IPC Applications section Russian Foreign Total A 4584 2567 7151 B 3326 1795 5121 C 2621 1999 4620 D 98 141 239 E 1737 392 2129 F 3651 686 4337 G 3644 1059 4703 H 1509 1407 2916 Unknown 2167 2128 4295 Total: 23337 12174 35511

Table 1.20 INVENTIONS: Dynamics of the issued patents divided by the International Patent Classification (IPC)

IPC 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Section Total Russian Foreign applicants applicants A 8283 7344 7577 7647 7577 4762 2815 B 5618 4689 5501 6216 6313 3164 3149 C 5910 7894 5677 5362 5133 2841 2292 D 266 253 299 342 294 86 208 E 2068 1925 2087 2241 1888 1384 504 F 3824 3434 3972 4262 3744 2178 1566 G 5231 4785 5736 6041 5649 4006 1643 H 3506 3212 3405 3663 3410 1692 1718 Total: 34706 33536 34254 35774 34008 20113 13895

Table 1.21 INVENTIONS: Issued patents of the Russian Federation to foreign applicants from 15 countries with the highest number of patents in 2019

Applicant Number of Applicant Number of country patents country patents 129 The U.S.A. 3681 The Republic of Korea 402 Japan 1679 Sweden 387 Germany 1645 Austria 214 France 934 Finland 147 China 895 Belgium 144 Switzerland 841 Denmark 133 The Netherlands 807 Others 1179 Italy 404 The U. K. 403 Total: 13895 Table 1.22 INVENTIONS: Distribution of valid patents of foreign applicants of 15 countries with the highest number of patents as of December 31, 2019

Applicant Country Number of patents Applicant Country Number of patents The U.S.A 22846 Sweden 2971 Germany 13803 The U. K. 2442 Japan 11595 Finland 1710 France 7180 Austria 1378 The Netherlands 5630 Ukraine 1162 Switzerland 5435 Belgium 1043 China 5377 Others 8181 The Republic of Korea 3942

Italy 3284 Total: 97979

Table 1.23 UTILITY MODELS: Dynamics of filed applications of the Russian Federation

Indicators 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2019 in % to 2018 Total number of applications filed to Rospat- 11906 11112 10643 9747 10136 103,99 ent Out of them: From Russian applicants 11403 10643 10152 9262 9717 104,91 From foreign applicants 503 469 491 485 419 86,39 Total number of applications at the exami- 11215 10044 10509 11334 10935 96,48 nation stage Out of them: 9154 8407 8777 9370 9085 96,96 Decisions to issue a patent, including to Russian applicants 8623 8058 8361 8914 8611 96,60 to foreign applicants 531 349 416 456 474 103,95 Rejections, including 719 517 692 832 862 103,61 to Russian applicants 689 498 660 800 829 103,63 to foreign applicants 30 19 32 32 33 103,13 Decisions to withdraw the application, 1342 1120 1040 1132 809 71,47 including made by Russian applicants 1257 1073 992 1083 768 70,91 made by foreign applicants 85 47 48 49 41 83,67 Transformed into the application for anoth- - - - - 179 - er object of IPR protection 130

Table 1.24 UTILITY MODELS: Dynamics of issued patents of the Russian Federation

Indicators 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2019 in % to 2018 Total number of issued patents 9008 8875 8774 9867 8848 89,67 Out of them to Russian applicants 8390 8474 8376 9391 8370 89,13 to foreign applicants 618 401 398 476 478 100,42 Table 1.25 UTILITY MODELS: The number of valid patents (certificates) of the Russian Federation as of December 31, 2019

Valid as of December 31, 2018 49345 Total number of issued patents in 2019 (utility models) 8848 Total number of patents terminated in 2019 (upon expiration and/or due to non-pay- 8937 ment of the maintenance fee (according to the decisions of Rospatent) Valid as of December 31, 2019 49256

Table 1.26 UTILITY MODELS: Distribution of applications filed in 2019 by Russian applicants (by Federal Districts of the Russian Federation)

Federal districts and Total Number of Federal districts and Total Number of constituent entities of applications constituent entities of applications the Russian Federation Entities Individ- the Russian Federation Entities Individ- uals uals Central Sevastopol 19 14 5 Belgorod Region 105 78 27 Total in the District 600 405 195 Bryansk Region 86 74 12 North Caucasian Vladimir Region 48 38 10 Republic of Dagestan 13 6 7 Voronezh Region 138 109 29 Republic of Ingushetia 1 0 1 Ivanovo Region 41 29 12 Kabardino-Balkarian 16 14 2 Kaluga Region 37 20 17 Republic Kostroma Region 16 3 13 Karachay-Cherkess Re- 1 0 1 public Kursk Region 62 48 14 North Ossetia–Alania 7 4 3 Lipetsk Region 45 36 9 Republic Moscow 2114 1389 725 Stavropol Krai 54 37 17 Moscow Region 678 386 292 Chechen Republic 17 8 9 Oryol Region 32 29 3 Total in the District 109 69 40 Ryazan Region 77 64 13 Volga Smolensk Region 24 12 12 Republic of Bashkortostan 163 99 64 Tambov Region 34 23 11 Kirov Region 68 26 42 Tver Region 71 51 20 Mari El Republic 42 33 9 Tula Region 69 39 30 Mordovia Republic 71 59 12 Yaroslavl Region 105 76 29 Nizhny Novgorod Region 162 113 49 Total in the District 3782 2504 1278 Orenburg Region 26 8 18 Northwestern Penza Region 76 42 34 Arkhangelsk Region 31 6 25 Perm Krai 157 95 62 Vologda Region 71 33 38 Samara Region 259 166 93 Kaliningrad Region 24 10 14 Saratov Region 138 94 44 Republic of Karelia 41 34 7 Republic of Tatarstan 423 338 85 Komi Republic 37 28 9 Udmurt Republic 79 43 36 Leningrad Region 43 20 23 Ulyanovsk Region 207 191 16 Murmansk Region 8 5 3 Chuvashia Republic 44 29 15 Nenets Autonomous 0 0 0 Total in the District 1915 1336 579 Okrug Ural 131 Novgorod Region 26 18 8 Kurgan Region 45 36 9 Pskov Region 20 17 3 Sverdlovsk Region 306 221 85 Saint Petersburg 1155 851 304 Tyumen Region 61 27 34 Total in the District 1456 1022 434 Khanty-Mansi Autono- 31 13 18 Southern mous Okrug (Yugra) Adygea Republic 4 0 4 Chelyabinsk Region 236 141 95 Astrakhan Region 35 21 14 Yamalo-Nenets Autono- 20 18 2 Volgograd Region 146 116 30 mous Okrug Kalmykia Republic 2 2 0 Total in the District 699 456 243 Krasnodar Krai 153 93 60 Siberian Republic of Crimea 88 48 40 Altai Republic 2 2 0 Rostov Region 153 111 42 Altai Krai 110 79 31 Federal districts and Total Number of Federal districts and Total Number of constituent entities of applications constituent entities of applications the Russian Federation Entities Individ- the Russian Federation Entities Individ- uals uals Irkutsk Region 51 40 11 Zabaykalsky Krai 8 2 6 Kemerovo Region 136 97 39 Kamchatka Krai 10 3 7 Krasnoyarsk Krai 195 91 104 Magadan Region 0 0 0 Novosibirsk Region 236 157 79 Primorsky Krai 39 32 7 Omsk Region 116 71 45 Sakha Republic 25 22 3 Tomsk Region 93 79 14 Sakhalin Region 5 3 2 Tuva Republic 2 1 1 Khabarovsk Krai 66 56 10 Republic of Khakassia 5 4 1 Chukotka Autonomous 0 0 0 Total in the District 946 621 325 Okrug Total in the District 186 146 40 Far Eastern Amur Region 22 21 1 Federal District is unknown Buryatia 11 7 4 Total by the District 24 18 6 Jewish Autonomous 0 0 0 Region Total: 9717 6577 3140

Table 1.27 UTILITY MODELS: Comparative characteristics of filed applications (by Federal Districts of the Russian Federation in 2019)

Federal District Utility Models applications Number % of the total number of applica- of filed applications tions of Russian applicants Central 3782 38,92 Volga 1915 19,71 Northwestern 1456 14,98 Siberian 946 9,74 Ural 699 7,19 Southern 600 6,17 Far Eastern 186 1,91 North Caucasian 109 1,12 District is unknown 24 0,25 Total: 9717 100

132 Table 1.28 UTILITY MODELS: Distribution of issued patents to Russian applicants in 2019 (by Federal Districts of the Russian Federation)

Federal districts and con- Total Issued patents Federal districts and con- Total Issued patents stituent entities of the Entities Individ- stituent entities of the Entities Individ- Russian Federation uals Russian Federation uals Central Volga Belgorod Region 75 59 16 Republic of Bashkortostan 124 81 43 Bryansk Region 100 93 7 Kirov Region 68 29 39 Vladimir Region 37 26 11 Mari El Republic 39 30 9 Voronezh Region 131 110 21 Mordovia Republic 43 39 4 Ivanovo Region 22 16 6 Nizhny Novgorod Region 152 111 41 Kaluga Region 36 23 13 Orenburg Region 15 7 8 Kostroma Region 11 7 4 Penza Region 51 33 18 Kursk Region 58 48 10 Perm Krai 136 99 37 Lipetsk Region 25 21 4 Samara Region 229 153 76 Moscow 1868 1262 606 Saratov Region 126 101 25 Moscow Region 585 356 229 Republic of Tatarstan 391 329 62 Oryol Region 31 28 3 Udmurt Republic 66 39 27 Ryazan Region 64 55 9 Ulyanovsk Region 196 180 16 Smolensk Region 13 8 5 Chuvashia Republic 42 28 14 Tambov Region 27 15 12 Total in the District 1678 1259 419 Tver Region 80 64 16 Ural Tula Region 59 33 26 Kurgan Region 39 27 12 Yaroslavl Region 71 59 12 Sverdlovsk Region 306 230 76 Total in the District 3293 2283 1010 Tyumen Region 52 29 23 Northwestern Khanty-Mansi Autono- 18 13 5 Arkhangelsk Region 30 12 18 mous Okrug (Yugra) Vologda Region 51 37 14 Chelyabinsk Region 198 117 81 Kaliningrad Region 17 11 6 Yamalo-Nenets Autono- 10 10 0 mous Okrug Republic of Karelia 18 13 5 Total in the District 623 426 197 Komi Republic 22 16 6 Siberian Leningrad Region 19 11 8 Altai Republic 0 0 0 Murmansk Region 10 9 1 Altai Krai 86 70 16 Nenets Autonomous 0 0 0 Okrug Irkutsk Region 42 37 5 Novgorod Region 20 15 5 Kemerovo Region 104 74 30 Pskov Region 13 10 3 Krasnoyarsk Krai 131 65 66 Saint Petersburg 961 736 225 Novosibirsk Region 189 129 60 Total in the District 1161 870 291 Omsk Region 126 81 45 Southern Tomsk Region 105 96 9 Adygea Republic 2 0 2 Tuva Republic 0 0 0 Astrakhan Region 36 23 13 Republic of Khakassia 9 7 2 Volgograd Region 147 125 22 Total in the District 792 559 233 Kalmykia Republic 2 2 0 Far Eastern Krasnodar Krai 116 77 39 Amur Region 20 19 1 Republic of Crimea 104 84 20 Buryatia 7 4 3 Rostov Region 158 130 28 Jewish Autonomous 0 0 0 Region Sevastopol 22 17 5 Zabaykalsky Krai 5 4 1 Total in the District 587 458 129 133 Kamchatka Krai 5 2 3 North Caucasian Magadan Region 1 0 1 Republic of Dagestan 11 7 4 Primorsky Krai 40 25 15 Republic of Ingushetia 1 0 1 Sakha Republic 22 18 4 Kabardino-Balkarian 10 7 3 Republic Sakhalin Region 5 0 5 Karachay-Cherkess Re- 6 1 5 Khabarovsk Krai 40 33 7 public Chukotka Autonomous 0 0 0 North Ossetia–Alania 4 2 2 Okrug Republic Total in the District 145 105 40 Stavropol Krai 49 34 15 Federal District is unknown Chechen Republic 4 1 3 Total by the District 6 3 3 Total in the District 85 52 33 Total 8370 6015 2355 Table 1.29 UTILITY MODELS: The number of granted patents in 2019 in the Federal districts of the Russian Federation

Federal district Granted patents of the Russian Federation Central % of the whole number of patents granted by the russian applicant Central 3293 39,34 Volga 1678 20,05 Northwestern 1161 13,87 Siberian 792 9,46 Ural 623 7,44 South 587 7,01 Far Eastern 145 1,73 North Caucasus 85 1,02 Unclear 6 0,07

Total: 8370 100

Table 1.30 UTILITY MODELS: Filing of applications by foreign citizens from 15 countries with the highest number of applications in 2019

Applicant Country Number of applications Including entities Including individuals Ukraine 98 71 27 Belarus 83 65 18 Cyprus 76 76 0 Germany 41 40 1 China 27 21 6 Belgium 10 10 0 Kazakhstan 10 5 5 Taiwan, China province 8 4 4 The USA 8 8 0 Italy 7 5 2 Finland 4 4 0 Great Britain 4 4 0 Czech Republic 3 2 1 Spain 3 3 0 Hungary 3 2 1 134 Others 34 26 8

Total: 419 346 73 Table 1.31 UTILITY MODELS: Dynamics of granted patent in the Russian Federation in distribution to CPC Sections

CPC Section 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 A 1579 1550 1717 2081 2067 B 2021 2034 2143 2630 2247 C 269 194 261 226 212 D 42 36 30 44 37 E 1192 1184 1058 1107 919 F 1557 1487 1419 1630 1394 G 1376 1343 1193 1243 1120 H 972 1047 953 906 852 Total: 9008 8875 8774 9867 8848

Table 1.32 UTILITY MODELS: Granted patents in the Russian Federation by foreign applicants from 15 countries with the highest number of patents in 2019

Applicant Country Number of patents Applicant Country Number of patents Cyprus 110 Great Britain 8 Ukraine 98 Taiwan, China province 8 Belarus 69 Belgium 7 Germany 48 Spain 6 China 40 Italy 6 Czech Republic 11 Netherlands 5 Kazakhstan 11 Others 33 Finland 9 The USA 9 Total: 478

Table 1.33 UTILITY MODELS: Dynamics of filing and consideration of Russian patents applications

Indicators 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2019 в% к 2018 Total of applications filed to Rospatent, among 4929 5464 6487 5908 6920 117,13 them: – under national procedure, among them: 4929 5464 6487 5908 6048 102,37

from Russian applicants 2015 2391 3263 3218 3363 104,51 from Foreign applicants 2914 3073 3224 2690 2685 99,81 – under the international procedure Under the - - - - 872 - Geneve Act of the Hague Agreement Considered on the stage of examination, 5009 5312 5486 6824 6903 101,16 decisions made: – on granting, among them to: 4466 4961 5152 6234 5534 88,77 135 Russian applicants 1748 2054 2279 3047 3087 101,31 Foreign applicants 2718 2907 2873 3187 2447 76,78 – decision on rejection,among them: 90 99 74 156 141 90,38 Russian applicants 51 36 34 108 108 100,00 Foreign applicants 39 63 40 48 33 68,75 – decision to accept the application withdrawn, 453 252 260 434 328 75,58 among them: Russian applicants 292 129 144 293 271 92,49 Foreign applicants 161 123 116 141 57 40,43 Total of all international utility models applica- - - - - 900 - tions considered Table 1.34 UTILITY MODELS: The dynamics of Russian granted patents 2015-2019

Indicators 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2019 in % to 2018 Granted patents, 5459 4455 5339 6305 5395 85,57 among them To Russian applicants 2031 1780 2194 2840 2951 103,91 To foreign applicants 3428 2675 3145 3465 2444 70,53

Table 1.35 UTILITY MODELS: The number of valid patents of the Russian Federation as of 31.12.2019

Valid as of 31.12.2018 35898 Software patents granted in 2019 5395 Patent terminated in 2019 (patent expired and / or due to nonpayment of a patent fee for a 2635 patent maintenance, due to Rospatent decision) Valid as of 31.12.2019 38658

Table 1.36 UTILITY MODELS: Filing of the application by foreign citizens from 15 countries with the highest number of applications in 2019

Applicant Number Among them country of applications entities individuals The USA 438 Germany 240 236 4 Switzerland 227 227 0 Japan 221 221 0 The Republic of France 208 208 0 China 191 182 9 Netherlands 123 123 0 Republic of Korea 115 113 2 Italy 113 112 1 Great Britain 105 105 0 Sweden 104 104 0

136 Finland 68 68 0 Ukraine 64 31 33 Turkey 52 50 2 Belarus 46 42 4 Others 370 364 6

Total: 2685 2622 63 Table 1.37 UTILITY MODELS: Distribution of filed applications by Russian applicants in 2019 in Federal Districts of the Russian Federation

Federal districts Total Federal districts Total of the Russian Federation of the Russian Federation Central Volga Belgorod Region 8 Republic of Bashkortostan 16 Bryansk Region 9 Kirov Region 8 Vladimir Region 32 Mari El Republic 23 Voronezh Region 46 Mordovia Republic 3 Ivanovo Region 19 Nizhny Novgorod Region 35 Kaluga Region 21 Orenburg Region 0 Kostroma Region 35 Penza Region 28 Kursk Region 70 Perm Krai 31 Lipetsk Region 5 Samara Region 131 Moscow 1027 Saratov Region 23 Moscow Region 426 Republic of Tatarstan 102 Oryol Region 2 Udmurt Republic 36 Ryazan Region 11 Ulyanovsk Region 69 Smolensk Region 4 Chuvashia Republic 10 Tambov Region 3 Total 515 Tver Region 85 Ural Tula Region 22 Kurgan Region 7 Yaroslavl Region 37 Sverdlovsk Region 89 Total 1862 Tyumen Region 10 Northwestern Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug (Yu- 0 Arkhangelsk Region 6 gra) Vologda Region 21 Chelyabinsk Region 40 Kaliningrad Region 17 Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug 0 Republic of Karelia 8 Total 146 Komi Republic 4 Siberian Leningrad Region 25 Altai Republic 0 Murmansk Region 4 Altai Region 10 Nenets Autonomous Okrug 0 Irkutsk Region 7 Novgorod Region 8 Kemerovo Region 14 Pskov Region 7 Krasnoyarsk Region 15 Saint Petersburg 289 Novosibirsk Region 92 Total 389 Omsk Region 6 Southern Tomsk Region 21 Adygea Republic 3 Tuva Republic 1 Astrakhan Region 4 Republic of Khakassia 6 Volgograd Region 10 Total 172 Kalmykia Republic 0 Far Eastern Krasnodar Krai 45 Amur Region 3 Republic of Crimea 11 Buryatia 2 Rostov Region 74 Jewish Autonomous Region 0 137 Sevastopol 7 Zabaykalsky Region 4 Total 154 Kamchatka Region 1 North Caucasian Magadan Region 0 Republic of Dagestan 8 Primorsky Region 14 Republic of Ingushetia 1 Sakha Republic 3 Kabardino-Balkarian Republic 2 Sakhalin Region 0 Karachay-Cherkess Republic 0 Khabarovsk Region 3 North Ossetia–Alania Republic 11 Chukotka Autonomous Okrug 0 Stavropol Krai 48 Total 30 Chechen Republic 4 Unidentified Federal Region Total 74 Total 21 The Russian Federation 3363 Table 1.38 INDUSTRIAL DESIGNS: Distribution of patents granted to Russian applicants in 2019 into Federal Districts of the Russian Federation

Federal districts and constituent Total Federal districts and constituent Total entities of the Russian Federation number of entities of the Russian Federation number of patents patents Central Volga region Belgorod region 10 Bashkortostan Republic 15 Bryansk region 14 Kirov region 7 Vladimir region 10 Mari El Republic 10 Voronezh region 38 Mordovia Republic 3 Ivanovo region 14 Nizhny Novgorod region 54 Kaluga region 39 Orenburg region 3 Kostroma region 23 Penza region 29 Kursk region 33 Perm region 31 Lipetsk region 5 Samara region 119 Moscow 906 Saratov region 23 Moscow region 478 Tatarstan Republic 86 Oryol region 1 Udmurt Republic 35 Ryazan region 20 Ulyanovsk region 51 Smolensk region 4 Chuvash Republic 7 Tambov region 2 Total in the district: 473 Tver region 17 Ural Tula region 8 Kurgan region 0 Yaroslavl region 10 Sverdlovsk region 100 Total in the district: 1632 Tyumen region 4 Northwestern Khanty-Mansiysky Autonomous 2 Arkhangelsk region 1 district — Ugra Vologda region 10 Chelyabinsk region 48 Kaliningrad region 9 Yamal-Nenets Autonomous district 0 Karelia Republic 2 Total in the district: 154 Komi Republic 2 Siberian Leningrad region 14 Altai Republic 0 Murmansk region 1 Altai region 18 Nenets Autonomous district 0 Irkutsk region 19 Novgorod region 5 Kemerovo region 10 Pskov region 2 Krasnoyarsk region 13 St. Petersburg 227 Novosibirsk region 64 Total in the district: 273 Omsk region 20 South Tomsk region 10 Adygea Republic 5 Tyva Republic 3 Astrakhan region 3 Khakassia Republic 9 Volgograd region 6 Total in the district: 166 Kalmykia Republic 0 Far Eastern Krasnodar region 38 Amur region 0 Crimea Republic 7 Buryatia Republic 4 138 Rostov region 105 Jewish Autonomous district 0 Sevastopol 14 Trans-Baikal region 6 Total in the district: 178 Kamchatka region 0 North Caucasian Magadan region 0 Dagestan Republic 4 Primorsky region 10 Ingushetia Republic 1 Sakha (Yakutia) Republic 2 Kabardino-Balkarian Republic 0 Sakhalin region 1 Karachay-Cherkess Republic 1 Khabarovsk region 1 North Ossetia - Alania Republic 2 Chukotka Autonomous district 0 Stavropol region 43 Total in the district: 24 Chechen Republic 0 Total: 2951 Total in the district: 51 Table 1.39 APPELATION OF ORIGIN: Dynamics of filing applications and granting certificates in the Russian Federation

Indicators 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Applications filed for state registration of 44 44 56 99 100 AoO and for granting an exclusive right to AoO as well as applications filed for granting an exclusive right to earlier registered AoO, total Among them: Russian applicants 43 42 56 97 92 Foreign applicants 1 2 0 2 8 Certificates granted for an exclusive Right to 25 24 30 36 67 AoO, total Among them: For Russian applicants 25 16 27 36 66 For Foreign applicants - 8 3 0 1

Table 1.40 Dynamics of filling applications for state registration of computer programs, databases, integrated circuit topographies for the period 2015–2019

Type of Intellectual property Right 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Computer programs, total 13362 14843 14092 15645 17878 Among them: Russian applicants 13248 14750 13997 15541 17739 Foreign applicants 114 93 95 104 139 Databases, total 1726 1807 1682 2063 2685 Among them: Russian applicants 1724 1803 1678 2059 2684 Foreign applicants 2 4 4 4 1 Integrated circuit topographies, total 158 186 190 257 277 Among them: Russian applicants 150 181 185 242 270 Foreign applicants 8 5 5 15 7

139 Table 1.41 Information on filed applications for registration of computer programs, databases, integrated circuit topographies distributed into Federal Districts of the Russian Federation for the period 2015–2019

Federal District 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Central 6875 7958 7776 8617 9956 Volga 2017 2170 2006 2218 2678 Northwestern 1700 2136 1866 2467 2948 South 1183 1290 1197 1297 1341 North Caucasian 449 362 308 354 501 Siberian** 1523 1598 1495 1597 1724 Ural 828 809 874 777 920 Far Eastern 484 411 338 515 625 Crimean* 63

Total: 15122 16734 15860 17842 20693

* Since 2016 included into South Federal District ** The calculation of applications for the Siberian and Far Eastern districts was carried out taking into account the transfer in 2018 of two entities from the Siberian District to the Far Eastern District.

Table 1.42 Dynamics of registration of computer programs, databases and integrated circuit topographies in 2015–2019

Type of Intellectual property Right 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Computer programs, total 13718 13988 14344 17007 17821 Among them: Russian applicants 13575 13908 14238 16885 17684 Foreign applicants 143 80 106 122 137 Databases, total 1829 1696 1530 2173 2544 Among them: Russian applicants 1826 1692 1527 2171 2543 Foreign applicants 3 4 3 2 1 Integrated circuit topographies, total 144 174 199 241 263 Among them: Russian applicants 125 169 196 222 258 Foreign applicants 19 5 3 19 5

140 Table 1.43 Dynamics of registration of disposal of the exclusive right to inventions, utility models, industrial designs under an agreement on alienation, on granting the right to use, on pledge

Indicator 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Number of disposals under: an agreement on alienation 1191 1347 1223 1193 1270 an agreement on granting the right to use 1243 1119 1409 1420 1553 An agreement on pledge of the exclusive 13 9 13 8 17 right An agreement on registered disposal 248 325 214 292 270 An agreement for early termination of a 163 139 132 147 147 registered disposal

Total number of registered disposals 2858 2939 2991 3060 3257 under an agreement

Table 1.44 Number of registered disposals of exclusive right to inventions, utility models, industrial designs by fields of technology in 2015–2019

Field 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Light, food processing industry 257 239 192 176 206 Machine building, machine tool building, tool 205 257 223 222 277 manufacturing Medicine 396 379 429 376 401 Power engineering, electrical engineering 511 409 418 459 497 Chemical industry, petrochemical industry 406 406 475 510 405 Electronics, computing, instrumentation 222 315 316 309 342 Metal industry 62 118 89 101 79 Oil and gas industry 142 166 146 134 151 Construction, building materials 226 259 240 247 249 Other 431 391 463 526 650 Total: 2858 2939 2991 3060 3257

Table 1.45 Dynamics of changes in the activity of parties to registered disposals of exclusive right under an agreement depending on the category of business entities

Business Categories of Share of the total number of contracts % Assignors Assignees entities 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Individuals 22,11 26,11 25,14 27,14 27,44 6,08 7,5 8,33 8,6 9,23 Government enterprises, Research 12,7 13,2 13,49 11,85 11,2 2,75 5,91 3,66 3,16 2,21 141 and Development Institutions, Engi- neering Offices, Universities Non-governmental organizations, 65,19 60,69 61,37 61,01 61,36 91,17 86,59 88,01 88,24 88,56 Including: joint ventures ------foreign companies 13,02 15,44 14,38 12,42 12,01 11,02 13,94 13,29 10,86 10,82 Other ------Table 1.46 Number of registered contracted disposals of exclusive right and that of patents in which respect the Disposals are registered

Indicators 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Number of registered contracts/ 2858/ 2939/ 2991/ 3060/ 3257/ number of patents covered by registered con- 6806 6633 7356 7357 8064 tracts, total Among them: For inventions 1693/ 1847/ 1864/ 1929/ 2004/ 4271 4224 4303 4475 4333 For utility models 927/ 872/ 897/ 907/ 989/ 1795 1899 2148 2093 2369 For industrial designs 238/ 220/ 230/ 224/ 264/ 740 510 905 789 1362

Table 1.47 Number of trademarks covered by registered contracts of alienation of exclusive right to trademarks, license agreements / franchise agreements granting the right to use a trademark

Type of contract 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Contract of alienation of exclusive rights to 10697 10246 10646 10574 11012 trademarks, total including assignors Russian rightsholders 8001 7445 7709 7625 7834 foreign rightsholders 2696 2801 2937 2949 3178 License agreements /Franchise agreements, 9637/ 12119/ 12334/ 12899/ 14215/ total including transferring party 3804 3685 4355 5682 6425 Russian rightsholders 6613/ 8448/ 9455/ 9537/ 10980/ 3462 3464 4176 5177 5937 foreign rightsholders 3024/ 3671/ 2882/ 3362/ 3235/ 342 221 179 505 488

Table 1.48 Affiliation of contracting parties to Russian or foreign persons

Contracting parties Contracts of alienation of exclusive License agreements/ right to trademarks Franchise agreements 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Contracting parties are Rus- 3098 3333 3471 3570 3630 3771/ 4239/ 5494/ 5249/ 6624/ sian nationals 2751 2668 3052 3940 4581 Contracting parties are for- 589 694 675 659 628 102/ 109/ 129/ 139/ 139/ eign nationals 2 0 6 2 1 Assignor is a Russian person, 233 203 152 181 219 27/ 31/ 47/ 54/ 103/ assignee is a foreign person 3 2 28 1 1 142 Assignor is a foreign person, 195 220 207 183 201 702/ 769/ 664/ 734/ 697/ Assignor is a Russian person 149 97 85 125 75 Table 1.49 Number of registered contracts and number of trademarks covered by registered contracts

Type 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 of contract Contracts Trade- Contracts Trade- Contracts Trade- Contracts Trade- Contracts Trade- marks marks marks marks marks

Contracts of alienation 4115 10697 4450 10246 4505 10646 4593 10574 4678 11012 of rights to trademarks, total Russian 3331 8001 3536 7445 3623 7709 3751 7625 3849 7834 rightsholders Foreign 784 2696 914 2801 882 2937 842 2949 829 3178 rightsholders License agreements / 4602/ 9637/ 5148/ 12119/ 6333/ 12334/ 6176/ 12899/ 7563/ 14215/ Franchise agreements, 2905 3804 2767 3685 3171 4355 4068 5682 4658 6425 total Russian 3798/ 6613/ 4270/ 8448/ 5540/ 9452/ 5303/ 9537/ 6727/ 10980/ rightsholders 2754 3462 2670 3464 3080 4176 3941 5177 4582 5937 Foreign 804/ 3024/ 878/ 3671/ 793/ 2882/ 873/ 3362/ 836/ 3235/ rightsholders 151 342 97 221 91 179 127 505 76 488 Pledge 58 362 72 689 98 750 137 829 104 756 Amendments 5919 17120 5973 16000 5185 15397 7417 21501 9057 20184 Termination 2045 3525 1659 3879 1752 3799 1774 3867 2128 4156

Total: 19644 45145 20069 46618 21044 47281 24165 55352 28188 56748

Table 1.50 Number of registered disposals of exclusive right to computer programs, databases and integrated circuit topographies

Type of exclusive right transfer 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Under a contract of alienation of exclusive right to comput- 305 347 404 444 435 er program, database and topography of integrated circuit Under a license agreement on topography of integrated 0 5 23 7 14 circuit Transfer of exclusive right to computer program, database 58 58 86 43 43 and topography of integrated circuit without a contract

Table 1.51 Dynamics of satisfied applications for extending the validity of the exclusive right to a trademark in 2015–2019

Year 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Total number 13929 16360 17503 17777 16383 Russian rightsholders 8372 10140 10558 10726 10591 Foreign rightsholders 5557 6220 6945 7051 5792 143 Table 1.52 Amendments to the State Register of trademarks and service marks of the Russian Federation, to the State Register of appellations of origin of the Russian Federation, to the Register of well-known trademarks in the Russian Federation, and to certificates

Indicator In respect of In respect of Well-known Total trademarks AoO trademarks Amendments made, total 20313 14 13 20340 Among them: Russian rightsholders 15859 12 9 15880 foreign rightsholders 4454 2 4 4460

Table 1.53 Early termination of legal protection upon request of a person in connection with the liquidation of the legal entity-rightsholder or registration of cessation of person’s activity as an individual entrepreneur- rightsholder

Indicator In respect of In respect of Well-known Total trademarks AoO trademarks Requests satisfied, total 371 0 0 371

Among them: Russian rightsholders 270 0 0 270 foreign rightsholders 101 0 0 101

Table 1.54 Early termination of legal protection in case of right holder’s waiver of right

Indicator In respect of In respect of Well-known Total trademarks AoO trademarks Satisfied, total 234 0 0 234 Among them: Russian rightsholders 225 0 0 225 foreign rightsholders 9 0 0 9

Table 1.55 Provision of public services in electronic form

Name Total Elec- Share, % Through Through of service troni- the the Uni- cally Office fied Por- services tal for Public Services 144 State registration of invention and granting a patent for 35511 17271 48,64 17049 222 invention, a duplicate thereof State registration of utility model and granting a patent 10136 2938 28,99 2719 219 for utility model, a duplicate thereof State registration of industrial design and granting a 6048 3485 57,62 3399 86 patent for industrial design, a duplicate thereof State registration of a trademark, service mark, col- 68705 55686 81,05 55052 634 lective mark and granting a certificate for trademark service mark, collective mark, duplicates thereof State registration of appellation of origin and granting 107 36 33,64 34 2 exclusive right to such appellation, as well as granting exclusive right to appellation of origin registered earlier and granting a certificate of exclusive right to appellation of origin, a duplicate thereof Name Total Elec- Share, % Through Through of service troni- the the Uni- cally Office fied Por- services tal for Public Services

State registration of a computer program or database 20546 4654 22,65 3698 956 and granting certificates of state registration of a computer program or database, duplicates thereof State registration of a topography of integrated circuit 277 6 2,17 - 6 and granting a certificate Recognition of a trademark or a designation used as a 17 7 41,18 - 7 trademark as a well-known trademark in the Russian Federation State registration of contracted disposal of exclusive 34348 5444 15,85 - 5444 right to invention, utility model, industrial design, trademark, service mark, registered topography of integrated circuit, computer program, database State registration of transfer of exclusive right to inven- 976 220 22,54 - 220 tion utility model, industrial design, trademark, appellation of origin, registered topography of integrated circuit, computer program, database without a contract Consideration of the rightholder’s application for 111 4 3,60 - 4 granting to any person a right of use of invention utility model or industrial design (open license), an application for revocation of the application for open license

State registration of transactions s providing for the 0 0 - - 0 use of a single technology of civil designation on the territory of foreign countries Acquaintance with documents of application for grant- 1225 43 3,51 - 43 ing a patent for invention utility model, industrial design and issuance of copies of such documents Acquaintance with documents of application for state 837 366 43,73 10 356 registration of a trademark, service mark, collective mark and issuance of copies of such documents Renewal of a patent for invention, utility model or 4762 132 2,77 - 132 industrial design Renewal of the exclusive right to invention and a patent 41 0 0,00 - 0 certifying such right Renewal of the exclusive right to industrial design and a 592 20 3,38 9 11 patent certifying such right Renewal of the exclusive right to trademark, service 17413 5670 32,56 - 5670 mark, collective mark Renewal of the certificate of the exclusive right to 11 0 0,00 - 0 appellation of origin Amendments to state registers of inventions utility 5283 581 11,00 - 581 models, industrial designs of the Russian Federation, as well as to patents Amendments to state registers of trademarks and 22048 4712 21,37 - 4712 service marks Amendments to registers of computer programs, data- 1114 59 5,30 - 59 bases, topographies of integrated circuits, as well as to 145 certificates of state registration of computer programs, databases, topographies of integrated circuits Early termination of a patent for invention, utility mod- 532 16 3,01 - 16 el, industrial design, legal protection of a trademark, service mark, certificate of the exclusive right to the appellation of origin at the request of rightsholder Early termination of legal protection of a trademark, 504 50 9,92 - 50 service the mark, well-known trademark, certificate of the exclusive right to appellation of origin at the request of any person, except the rightsholder, due to liquidation of the legal entity – rightsholder or registration of cessation of a person’s activity as an individual entrepreneur – rightsholder, as well as in case of death of the person holding a certificate of the exclusive right to the appellation of origin Name Total Elec- Share, % Through Through of service troni- the the Uni- cally Office fied Por- services tal for Public Services

Certification and registration of Patent Attorneys of the 110 16 14,55 - 16 Russian, issue of certificates to Patent Attorneys Publication of court decisions on infringement of exclu- 5 0 0,00 - 0 sive rights

Total: 231259 101416 43,85 81970 19446

Table 1.56 Information on distribution of patent attorneys across federal districts of the Russian Federation in 01.01.2019 – 31.12.2019

Federal Districts and Subjects Total Including registered for the first of the Russian Federation in 1993–2019 time from 01.01.2019 to 31.12.2019 Northwestern Arkhangelsk region 1 Volgograd region 1

Kaliningrad region 6 Karelia Republic 1 Komi Republic 2 Leningrad region 8 1 Murmansk region 1 Novgorod region 3 Pskov region 2 St. Petersburg 308 12

Total in the Federal district 333 (15,8 %) 13 (12 %) (% of the total number of PAs) North Caucasian Dagestan Republic 1 - North Ossetia — Alania Republic 1 - Stavropol region 2 -

Total in the Federal district 4 (0,2 %) 0 (% of the total number of PAs) Volga region Bashkortostan Republic 16 1 Kirov region 3 1 Mordovia Republic 2 2

146 Nizhniy Novgorod region 16 - Orenburg region 5 - Penza region - - Perm region 15 2 Samara region 32 5 Saratov region 30 4 Tatarstan Republic 28 4 Udmurt Republic 4 - Ulyanovsk region 3 - Chuvash Republic 4 - Federal Districts and Subjects Total Including registered for the first of the Russian Federation in 1993–2019 time from 01.01.2019 to 31.12.2019

Total in the Federal district 158 (7,5 %) 19 (17,6 %) (% of the total number of PAs) Siberian Altai region 1 Irkutsk region 5 - Kemerovo region 5 Krasnoyarsk region 9 1 Novosibirsk region 22 4 Omsk region 8 1 Tomsk region 18

Total in the Federal district 68 (3,2 %) 6 (5,6 %) (% of the total number of PAs) Far Eastern Primorye region 17 1 Sakha (Yakutia) Republic 1 1 Khabarovsk region 7 -

Total in the Federal district 25 (1,2 %) 2 (1,9 %) (% of the total number of PAs)

As of December 31, 2019, 2150 patent attorneys are in the Register of Patent Attorneys of the Russian Fed- eration. Among them, 46 persons were excluded from the number of acting patent attorneys of the Russian Federation in accordance with the provisions of Article 8 of the Federal Law “On Patent Attorneys” No. 316 FZ of December 30, 2008. Hence, the number of acting patent attorneys of the Russian Federation as of December 31, 2019 is 2104 persons.

147 Table 1.57 Data on distribution of smallest number of patent attorneys across federal districts of the Russian Federation (Regions where the number of patent attorneys is three or less or no patent attorneys)

Federal Districts Total Including Federal Districts Total Including in 1993– registered for in 1993– registered for and Subjects of the 2019 the first time and Subjects of the 2019 the first time Russian Federation in 2019 Russian Federation in 2019

Central North Ossetia — Alania 1 - Republic Bryansk region 0 - Stavropol region 2 - Vladimir region 0 - Chechen Republic 0 - Ivanovo region 2 - Volga region Kostroma region 2 - Kirov regiob 3 1 Lipetsk region 1 - Republic of Marij El 0 - Oryol region 1 - Mordovia Republic 2 2 Ryazan region 3 - Penza region 0 - Smolensk region 1 - Ulyanovsk region 3 - Tambov region 1 - Ural Yaroslavl region 2 - Kurgan region 2 - Northwestern Khanty-Mansijsk Autono- 1 - Arkhangelsk region 1 - mous District – Ugra Volgograd region 1 - Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous 1 - District Karelia Republic 1 - Siberian Komi Republic 2 - Altai Republic 0 - Murmansk region 1 - Altai region 1 - Nenets Autonomous district 0 - Tyva Republic 0 - Novgorod region 3 - Khakassia Republic 0 - Pskov region 2 - Far Eastern South Amur region 0 - Adygea Republic 0 - Buryatia Republic 0 - Astrakhan region 3 - Jewish Autonomous region 0 - Kalmykia Republic 0 - Trans-Baikal region 0 - Sevastopol 3 - Kamchatka region 0 - North Caucasian Magadan region 0 - Dagestan Republic 1 - Sakha Yakutia Republic 1 1 Ingushetia Republic 0 - Sakhalin region 0 - Kabardino-Balkarian Republic 0 - Chukotka Autonomous 0 - Karachayevo-Cherkessian 0 - district Republic

148 Table 1.58 Number of decisions made by Rospatent in distribution into objects of intellectual activity and means of individualization

Types of intellectual Years Decisions activity results and individualization means on appeals of de- on appeals of по cisions of exami- refusal of legal заявлениям nation protection Inventions 2018 99 56 - 2019 105 148 - Utility models 2018 43 107 - 2019 62 113 - Industrial designs 2018 4 37 - 2019 24 51 - Trademarks 2018 782 397 - 2019 1062 583 - Well-known trademarks 2018 - - 16 2019 - 1 24 Trademarks (abuse of right and unfair 2018 - 14 - competition) 2019 - 20 - Trademarks (preterm termination of 2018 - - - trademark protection in case of its transformation into designation fallen into 2019 - - 2 public domain as a designation of goods of a certain kind) Appellations of origin 2018 - 2 - 2019 1 2 Appellations of origin (grant of exclusive 2018 - 1 - right to an appellation of origin registered earlier) 2019 - - 44

Table 1.59 Results of consideration of appeals and petitions

Types of intellectual Years Results of consideration activity results and individualization means Appeals upheld Appeals denied Inventions 2018 70 85 2019 99 154 Utility models 2018 63 87 2019 76 99 Industrial designs 2018 16 25 149 2019 34 41 Trademarks (including well-known trade- 2018 692 517 marks) 2019 865 827 Appellations of origin 2018 - 3 2019 37 10

Total: 2018 841 717 2019 1111 1131 Table 1.60 Number of considered cases related to well-known Trademarks

Type of case related Type of decision 2018 2019 to well-known trademarks Petition on recognizing trademark upheld 8 8 or a designation used as a trademark, as a well-known trademark in upheld in part 1 2 the Russian Federation denied 7 12 Proceedings terminated - 2 Appeals of grant of legal protection upheld - - to a well-known trademark in the denied - 1 Proceedings terminated - -

Total: 16 25

Table 1.61 Key Performance Indicators of the Patent Dispute Chamber

2017 2018 2019 Number of received objections or statements, including: 1874 2134 2341 Patent law objects 506 471 544 Individualization means 1368 1663 1797 The number of decisions made and sent based on the results con- 1760 1558 2242 sideration of objections and statements, including: Patent law objects 660 346 503 Individualization means 1100 1212 1739 Average duration of consideration of objections and statements, months: Patent law objects 6,9 4,6 4,8 Individualization means 3,2 3,4 4,0

150 ANNEX 2 TO SECTION 2 OF THE REPORT

Table 2.1 Information on audits by the federal districts

Federal district City Number Share of total num- of audits ber of audits, % Central Moscow, Troitsk, Mytishchi, Ryazan, Podolsk 24 57,1 Northwestern St. Petersburg, Severodvinsk, Kaliningradd 12 28,6 Volga Nizhny Novgorod, Samara, Saransk, Ulyanovsk, Orenburg 5 11,9 Urals Miass 1 2,4

Total: 42 100

Table 2.2 Information on audits of legal entities

Organizations Number Share of total number of of audits audits, % JSC 38 56,6 Institution of higher education 9 13,4 Federal State Budgetary Science Institution of the 5 7,5 Russian Academy of Science Ministry 4 6 Federal State Unitary Enterprise 3 4,5 Federal State Budget Institution 3 4,5 Federal State Budgetary Science Institution 2 3 Federal Service 1 1,5 State Corporation 1 1,5 Federal State Institution 1 1,5

Total: 67 100

Table 2.3 Results of audits of the state customers

State Number of state contracts under which the measures on ensuring legal protec- customer tion of the created results the Ministry of Indus- Under 27 state contracts: try and Trade of the ⁕⁕ 21 patents of the Russian Federation for invention; Russian Federation ⁕⁕ 10 patents of the Russian Federation for utility model; 151 (Department of phar- ⁕⁕ 1 patent of the Russian Federation for industrial design; maceutical and medical ⁕⁕ 2 certificates of state registration of computer program; industry development) ⁕⁕ 68 know-how; ⁕⁕ 3 applications for granting a patent of the Russian Federation for invention (later withdrawn); ⁕⁕ 1 application for granting a patent of the Russian Federation for utility model (later withdrawn) the Ministry of Indus- Under 23 state contracts: try and Trade of the ⁕⁕ 9 patents of the Russian Federation for invention; Russian Federation ⁕⁕ 37 know-how; (Department of radio ⁕⁕ 6 certificates of state registration of computer program; electronic industry) ⁕⁕ 2 patents of the Russian Federation for utility model; ⁕⁕ 2 applications for granting a patent of the Russian Federation for invention (later withdrawn); ⁕⁕ 1 application for granting a patent of the Russian Federation for utility model (later withdrawn) State Number of state contracts under which the measures on ensuring legal protec- customer tion of the created results

the Ministry of Indus- Under 41 state contracts: try and Trade of the ⁕⁕ 4 patents of the Russian Federation for invention; Russian Federation ⁕⁕ 7 patents of the Russian Federation for utility model; (Department of radio ⁕⁕ 3 certificates of state registration of computer program; electronic industry) ⁕⁕ 34 certificates of state registration of topographies of integrated circuits ⁕⁕ 86 know-how State Corporation Under 19 state contracts: “Roscosmos” ⁕⁕ 53 patents of the Russian Federation for invention; ⁕⁕ 1 patent of the Russian Federation for utility model; ⁕⁕ 54 certificates of state registration of computer program; ⁕⁕ 3 certificates of state registration of databases; ⁕⁕ 2 know-how; ⁕⁕ 35 scientific works

Table 2.4 Breakdown of the results of intellectual activity of military, special and dual use, registered in the Unified Register, by state customers

Federal Executive Authority 2004– 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Total / Year 2010 Foreign Intelligence Service 261 101 80 93 63 142 165 177 129 117 1 328 Federal Service for Drug 106 7 9 2 3 7 2 - - - 136 Control Federal Security Service 149 18 41 55 75 121 27 87 81 370 1024 Federal Customs Service 228 63 32 21 33 23 14 7 6 4 431 Ministry of Civil Defence, 133 35 20 7 14 9 5 11 2 7 243 Emergencies and Disaster Re- lief of the Russian Federation Chief Directorate for Special 129 7 12 6 8 1 0 8 0 0 171 Programs of the President of the Russian Federation Federal Guard Service 384 41 30 40 46 80 53 120 86 102 982 Ministry of Internal Affairs of 538 65 83 56 43 33 68 13 23 13 935 the Russian Federation Roscosmos 2363 826 764 454 725 455 234 220 126 298 6 465 Federal Service for Technical 543 141 113 50 59 50 20 62 32 10 1 080 and Export Control Ministry of Defense of the 8 862 425 471 1 137 1 205 1 214 792 414 1 460 1 617 17 597 Russian Federation Rosatom 0 8 60 552 294 173 826 812 367 255 3 347 Ministry of Industry and Trade 257 214 1 17 170 850 992 1 021 292 111 3 925 of the Russian Federation Ministry of Justice of the Rus- 1 0 ------1 sian Federation

152 Foundation for Advanced 0 - - - 0 0 44 131 160 82 417 Research National Guard of the Russian 0 ------0 0 0 Federation Ministry of Health of the Rus- 0 ------0 14 14 sian Federation

Total: 13 954 1 951 1 716 2 490 2 738 3 158 3 242 3 083 2 764 3 000 38 096 ANNEX 3 TO SECTION 3 OF THE REPORT

Table 3.1 Cooperation of Rospatent with Federal Executive Authorities on provision of data and information related to the objects of intellectual property right protection

Name of an Authority Number of requests Subject of requests 2017 2018 2019 Government of the Russian 55 - 6 Provision of data regarding the objects for IP right Federation protection, data, and documents on disposal of IP rights Ministry of Education and Sci- 15 2 16 ence of the Russian Federation Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the 3 - - Russian Federation Ministry of Justice of the Russian 2 - 9 Federation Ministry of Finance of the Rus- 1 - - sian Federation Ministry of Agriculture of the 4 - 1 Russian Federation Ministry of Culture of the Rus- 2 - - sian Federation Ministry of Defense of the Rus- 3 - 3 sian Federation Ministry of Industry and Trade of 3 1 - the Russian Federation Ministry of Economic Develop- 75 5 47 ment of the Russian Federation Ministry of Digital Development, 5 2 4 Communications and Mass Me- dia of the Russian Federation The Ministry of Health of the 6 1 3 Russian Federation

The Chamber of Commerce and 4 - - Industry of the Russian Federation Federal Service for Surveillance 12 6 25 on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing (Ro- spotrebnadzor) Federal Service for Supervision 3 - 3 of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor) Federal Service for Alcohol 2 4 3 Market Regulation (Rosalkogolreg- ulirovanie) 153 Russian Ministry of Internal Af- 481 454 509 Provision of data regarding the objects for IP rights fairs of the Russian Federation protection, data, and documents on disposal of IP rights: Federal Security Service of the 1 3 3 ⁕⁕ Provision of references on the results of an Russian Federation examination of the similarity degree between unregistered designations used for marking goods, Federal Antimonopoly Service 210 155 161 and trademarks; on the homogeneity of products; of the Russian Federation (FAS) on the use of any feature of the protected invention Federal Customs Service of the 103 99 198 in any object, utility model, or industrial design; Russian Federation (FCS) ⁕⁕ Provision of data on the registration of a particular object of industrial property, the scope of provided Federal Taxation Service of the 172 165 245 protection, number, and date of granted protection, Russian Federation (FTS) the validity of the title of protection, of the rights holders and/or on their representatives, as well as data on the contracts‘ registration on the exclusive ownership of the object of industrial property. Federal Bailiff Service of the 1644 3175 1857 Provision of information on the availability of the Russian Federation (FBS) registered objects for IP rights protection: ⁕⁕ Provision of data on interim measures in respect of the objects for IP rights protection; ⁕⁕ Seizure of the objects for IP rights protection; ⁕⁕ Withdrawal of the seizure from the objects for IP rights protection; ⁕⁕ Provision of data and documents on disposal of IP rights Prosecutor’s Office 54 23 28 Provision of data regarding the objects for IP rights protection, data, and documents on disposal of IP Courts 137 140 398 rights

Total: 2997 4235 3519

Table 3.2 Consideration of disputes in court by contest of the decisions of Rospatent in regard to the objects of the patent law

Types The total number The number of de- The number of The number of deci- of the of decisions made cisions of Rospatent invalidated decisions of Rospatent objects for IP by Rospatent based contested in court sions of Rospatent affirmed in court rights protection on the results of and adopted as a re- in court consideration of sult of consideration objections of objections 2018 2019 2018 2019 2018 2019 2018 2019 Utility Models 150 175 48 46 7 7 41 39 Inventions 155 253 52 49 8 5 44 44 Industrial Designs 41 75 19 25 3 5 16 20

Total: 346 503 119 120 18 17 101 103

Table 3.3 Judicial consideration of disputes by contest of the decisions of Rospatent in relation to means of individualization

Types The total number The number of The number of The number of de- of the of decisions made decisions of Rospat- invalidated deci- cisions of Rospatent objects for IP by Rospatent based ent contested in sions of Rospatent affirmed in court rights protection on the results of court based on the in court consideration of results of consider- objections and ation of objections applications and applications 2018 2019 2018 2019 2018 2019 2018 2019 Trademarks 1193 1667 226 257 52 64 174 193 Traditional 16 25 5 7 3 4 2 3 Knowledge Appellations of 3 47 2 22 1 0 1 22 Origin 154 Total: 1212 1739 233 286 56 68 177 218

Table 3.4 Judicial Acts and Cases on contesting the decisions (action) and/or inaction of Rospatent

Types of the Number of contested actions Number of actions (inaction) The number of decisions of objects for IP (inaction) of Rospatent of Rospatent recognized as Rospatent affirmed in court rightsprotec- unlawful tion 2018 2019 2018 2019 2018 2019 Patents 16 10 0 1 16 9 Trademarks 106 94 22 5 84 89

Total: 122 104 22 6 100 98 Table 3.5 Dispute resolution processes by contest of contracts, authorship and patent holder, infringement of exclusive rights in 2019

Types Contesting the contracts, Contesting the contracts, Contesting the contracts, Total of the objects authorship and patent authorship and patent authorship and patent for IP rights holder, infringement of holder, infringement of holder, infringement of protection exclusive rights exclusive rights exclusive rights Arbitration Court General Court Intellectual Property Court Demands Demands Demands Demands Demands Demands satisfied not satisfied not satisfied not satisfied satisfied satisfied Trademarks 19 12 4 3 5 7 50 Inventions 1 7 5 17 6 19 55 Utility Models 1 1 - 3 7 9 21 Industrial - 2 - 2 1 2 7 Designs Databases ------International - 1 - - - - 1 Registrations Appellations - 1 - - - - 1 of Origin Computer 2 - - - - - 2 programs

Total: 23 24 9 25 19 37 137

Table 3.6 Judicial Acts on Cases on early termination of the legal protection of trademarks due to non-use in 2019

Types of the Early termination of the legal Early termination of the legal Total objects for IP protection of trademarks due to protection of trademarks due to rightsprotec- non-use non-use tion Intellectual Property Court Other arbitration courts Demands Demands not Demands Demands not satisfied satisfied satisfied satisfied Trademarks 138 157 - 1 296 International 15 13 - - 28 registrations

Total: 153 170 - 1 324

155 Table 3.7 Cooperation of Rospatent with the regions of the Russian Federation within the framework of the Regional Policy

Federal Regions with whose adminis- Federal Regions with whose adminis- district trations Rospatent concluded district trations Rospatent concluded cooperation agreements cooperation agreements

Central Belgorod Region Volga Kirov Region Bryansk Region Nizhny Novgorod Region Voronezh Region Orenburg Region Kaluga Region Penza Region Kostroma Region Republic of Bashkortostan Lipetsk Region Mari El Republic Moscow Mordovia Republic Oryol Region Republic of Tatarstan Ryazan Region Samara Region Tambov Region Saratov Region Tver Region Udmurt Republic Tula Region Ulyanovsk Region Yaroslavl Region Chuvashia Republic Northwestern Arkhangelsk Region Ural Kurgan Region Kaliningrad Region Sverdlovsk Region Leningrad Region Tyumen Region Murmansk Region Chelyabinsk Region Nenets Autonomous Okrug Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug Novgorod Region Siberian Altai Krai Republic of Karelia Novosibirsk Region Republic of Komi Omsk Region Saint Petersburg Republic of Khakassia Southern Astrakhan Region Tomsk Region Volgograd Region Far Eastern Amur Region Krasnodar Region Zabaykalsky Krai Republic of Crimea Magadan Region Sevastopol Republic of Buryatia North Kabardino-Balkarian Republic Caucasian Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) Republic of Dagestan Sakhalin Region North Ossetia–Alania Republic Khabarovsk Krai Stavropol Krai 156 Total: 61 Table 3.8 Organization and conduct of conferences, seminars and round tables in the regions of the Russian Federation in 2019

Name Venue Date of the event of the event Expert discussion “Pharmaceutical Intellectual Property as a factor of achiev- Moscow, January 17 ing major social indicators and an instrument of access to the international The Russian market” within the framework of X Gaidar Forum 2019 “Russia and the World: Presidential National Development Goals and Global Trends” Academy of National Economy and Public Administration Webinar for the federal network of technological parks for children "Kvanto- Moscow, FIPS January 25 rium” organized by FIPS in cooperation with the “Foundation for New Forms of Education Development” - supervisor of the "Kvantorium” III All-Russian Conference "The Road to Success: Strategies for Supporting Sochi, January 27-29 Gifted Children and Youth" Educational Center “Sirius” A round table and a meeting of FIPS experts with students of Moscow colleg- Moscow, FIPS January 31 es within the framework of the educational project "NEXT Inventors" in the area of "organization of services in public catering" College of the service sector No. 32; Moscow educational complex named after Victor Talalikhin; Food College No. 33; Economics and Technology Col- lege No. 22; Metropolitan College of Service and Hospitality Industry; College of the Service No. 3 Extended meeting of the working group on the implementation of the Strat- Saint January 31 egy for scientific and technological development of the Russian Federation Petersburg Master class in patent search and a meeting of FIPS experts with specialists Moscow, FIPS February 5 from the State Space Corporation Roscosmos V annual conference “Construction and modernization of oil refineries, gas Kazan February 5-7 processing plants and oil refineries. Practical examples, technologies and equipment. Technical visits. Downstream Russia” Round table and a meeting of VPTB FIPS experts with the students of Mos- Moscow, FIPS February 11 cow colleges as part of the educational project "NEXT Inventors" in the area of "aerospace engineering" Polytechnic College named after N.N. Godovikov; Polytechnic College No. 47 named. after V.G. Fedorov; Polytechnic College No. 8 named. after I.F. Pavlov; Polytechnic College. named after P.A. Ovchinnikov; Zapadnyy Kompleks Nepreryvnogo Obrazovaniya; Polytechnic College No. 50 named after twice Hero of Socialist Labor N.A. Zlobin Russian Innovation Forum Sochi February 14-15 Scientific-practical conference "Modern library and information technolo- Saint February gies in the field of education and science" and the 3rd Interregional School of Petersburg 14-15 IRBIS Panel discussion “Education of the future: innovative and prospective staff Khanty- February 21 training practices for the oil industry” in the framework of the II International Mansiysk Youth Scientific and Practical Forum “The Oil Capital” Webinar “Exhibition projects on the basis of funds as an element of library Moscow February 21 outreaching activities”, organized by the Russian State Library for Youth in partnership with VPTB FIPS 157 Extended meeting of the Board of the Association of Employers of the Mos- Korolev February 21 cow Region Events dedicated to the 2nd anniversary of the opening of the Novosibirsk Novosibirsk February branch of FIPS 27-28 Business discussion “Intellectual assets: how to protect yourself from 21st Saint February 28 century pirates?” Organized by Law Firm “Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Part- Petersburg ners” III Saint Petersburg International Forum of Labor Market Saint February Petersburg 28-March 1 Dialogue with Rospatent with the participation of the Governor of the Penza March 11 Penza Region Name Venue Date of the event of the event

National Seminar “Madrid System for the International Registration of Trade- Penza March 11-12 marks and The Hague System for the International Registration of Industrial Designs”, organized by WIPO in cooperation with Rospatent, FIPS and the Penza Regional Chamber of Commerce and Industry Lecture by the Head of Rospatent and a meeting with experts of Rospatent Moscow, March 13 structure with the students from 10 Russian universities, organized by the Rospatent Russian Law Club Webinar “Intellectual Property. Legal protection and security of the project Moscow, FIPS March 13 ”, conducted by VPTB FIPS experts for teachers and students of the federal network of technological parks for children "Kvantorium” Regional training seminar "Electronic filing of applications for inventions and Samara, FSBEI March 14 utility models" of HE "Samara State Technical University" Round table and a meeting of FIPS experts with the students of the Gubkin Moscow, FIPS March 19 Russian State University of Oil and Gas (National Research University) in the framework of the educational project "Scientific youth on intellectual property" V All-Russian Scientific and Practical Conference “Unfair Competition in the Kazan March 21 Digital Age” Session "Management and disposal of intellectual property" in the frame- Moscow March 21 work of the XX Forum on Intellectual Property. Russia and the CIS countries Round table and a meeting of VPTB FIPS experts with the students of five Moscow, FIPS March 21 Moscow colleges as part of the educational project “NEXT Inventors” in the field of “Service and Light Industry” Service and Tourism College; Technolog- ical College No. 29; College of Small Business No. 4; College of Technology No. 24, First Moscow Educational Complex) IV All-Russian Meeting of Young Inventors “Intellectual Alarm Clock” Kazan March 22-31 Regional scientific-practical conference for specialists of the Central Federal Bryansk, GBUK March 27 District of the Russian Federation “Current issues of legal protection and use "Bryansk Re- of the results of intellectual activity” gional Scien- tific Universal Library named after F.I. Tyutchev" Rospatent Scientific and Practical Conference “Inventive, Rationalized and Moscow, March 27 Patent-Licensed Activities in the framework of Digital Economy” as part of “Sokolniki” the XXII Moscow International Salon of Inventions and Innovative Technolo- gies “Archimedes-2019” Meeting of VPTB FIPS experts with students of the Russian State Social Moscow, FIPS March 27 University as part of the educational project “Scientific Youth on Intellectual Property” Krasnoyarsk Economic Forum Krasnoyarsk March 28-30 Webinar on the basic concepts of intellectual property in the framework of Moscow, FIPS April 2 the XVI All-Russian competition of youth copyright projects and projects in the field of education Meeting of Rospatent representatives with the audience of the Stroganov Moscow, April 4 Moscow State Academy of Arts and Industry Rospatent Educational seminars on the basic concepts of intellectual property and a Sochi, April 4-6 158 master class in patent search Educational Center «Sirius» Round table and a meeting of VPTB FIPS experts with the students in the Moscow, FIPS April 5 field of Engineering and technology of ground transportation from Moscow colleges within the framework of the educational project "NEXT Inventors" Technological College No. 21; College of Urban Planning; Transport and Technology College No. 41; College of Railway and Urban Transport; Moscow Automobile and Road College named after A.A. Nikolaev; College of Automo- bile Transport No. 9 Webinar “Search Engines: Methods of using”, conducted by VPTB FIPS Moscow, FIPS April 8 experts for teachers and students of the federal network of technological parks for children "Kvantorium” V International Arctic Forum “The Arctic - Territory of Dialogue” Saint April 8-10 Petersburg Name Venue Date of the event of the event

International Intellectual Property Strategy Forum - IP Quorum 2019 Kaliningrad April 10-12 Round table and a meeting of VPTB FIPS experts with the students of the Moscow, FIPS April 15 Russian Technological University (MIREA) National Seminar on Intellectual Property for Small and Medium-sized Enter- Novosibirsk April 15-16 prises, organized by WIPO in cooperation with Rospatent, FIPS and the State Public Scientific and Technical Library of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences V Yalta International Economic Forum Yalta April 18-20 XI Forum "Days of Intellectual Property in the Northwestern Federal District", Saint April 18-26 including the round table "Trademarks, Appellations of Origin and Other Petersburg Means of Individualization" Scientific-practical conference of the National Defense Management Center Saint April 19 of the Russian Federation Petersburg Round table No. 1 in the framework of the XII International Forum "Intellec- Moscow, April 22 tual Property - XXI Century" Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation Round table No. 3 “All about litigation and trademark disputes” in the frame- Moscow, April 22 work of the XII International Forum “Intellectual Property - XXI Century” Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation 73rd International Youth Conference “Oil and Gas - 2019” Moscow, April 22-25 Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas (National Research University) II International Conference “Digital Transformation: Focus on IP” Moscow, April 23-24 Congress centre Technopolis Moscow International Scientific and Practical Conference "Rumyantsev Read- Moscow, April 23-24 ings-2019" Russian State Library Round table “Protection of Intellectual Property Rights in the Pharmaceuti- Moscow April 25 cal Sector” within the framework of the XII International Forum “Intellectual Property - XXI Century” organized by the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry under the auspices of WIPO Round table “Legal protection and promotion of regional brands - a serious Moscow, April 25 resource for economic development” within the framework of the XII Inter- Chamber of national Forum “Intellectual Property - XXI Century” organized by the Russian Commerce Chamber of Commerce and Industry under the auspices of WIPO and Industry of the Russian Federation Conference "Promotion of products of entrepreneurs engaged in the field Ekaterinburg April 25 159 of folk art crafts" III scientific and practical seminar on intellectual property issues, organized Moscow April 25-26 by Transneft PJSC and Transneft Research Institute LLC Seminar “Intellectual Property Management” within the framework of the XI Saint April 25-26 Forum “Days of Intellectual Property in the Northwestern Federal District” Petersburg The award ceremony of the All-Russian competition "School patent - a step Saint April 26 into the future!" in the framework of the XI Forum “Days of Intellectual Prop- Petersburg erty in the Northwestern Federal District” Round table "Intellectual Property for the Effective Development of Regions" Saint April 26 in the framework of the International Forum of the Festival "Intellectual Petersburg Property for the Future" Name Venue Date of the event of the event

Round table “Features of the commercial use of intellectual property” within Moscow, The April 26 the framework of the XII International Forum “Intellectual Property - XII Cen- Institute of tury” organized by the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry under State and Law the auspices of WIPO of the Russian Academy of Sciences Seminar at the Sirius Educational Center Sochi May 11 IX Saint Petersburg International Legal Forum Saint May 14-18 Petersburg Round table and a meeting of VPTB FIPS experts with the students of Moscow, FIPS May 16 Moscow teacher training colleges within the framework of the educational project "NEXT Inventors" FIPS webinar for the Vologda Region Department of Economic Development Moscow – May 17 “Key provisions for the implementation of the “Recommendations on the Vologda management of intellectual property rights and means of individualization in the regions of the Russian Federation”, approved by the Government of the Russian Federation, and the implementation of the Recommendations in Vologda Region and conclusion of a 3-way Agreement between the regions and the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation" National Seminar on the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) and its latest Tomsk May 20-21 changes, organized by WIPO in cooperation with Rospatent, FIPS and the Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Education "Na- tional Research Tomsk Polytechnic University" IV Conference "Digital Industry of Industrial Russia" Innopolis May 22-24 Webinar of VPTB FIPS experts for teachers and students of the federal net- Moscow May 27 work of technological parks for children "Kvantorium” Regional scientific-practical conference for the experts of the Volga Federal Kirov, May 29 District of the Russian Federation “Current issues of legal protection and use Vyatka State of the results of intellectual activity” University Startup Village 2019 - 7th Annual International Startup Conference for tech- Moscow May 29-30 nology entrepreneurs Region, Skolkovo VII Congress of Technology and Innovation Support Centers (TISCs) in the Veliky Novgo- May 30-31 Russian Federation rod, Yaro- slav-the-Wise Novgorod State Univer- sity Training Workshop for Technology and Innovation Support Centers (TISCs) Veliky Novgo- May 31 in the Russian Federation, organized by WIPO in cooperation with Rospatent rod, Yaro- and FIPS slav-the-Wise Novgorod State Univer- sity Round table "Protection of the rights of museums in the digital age" in the Moscow 31 May framework of the XXI International Festival “Intermuseum-2019” Round table "Museum as an educational space" Moscow, June 6 Gubkin Russian State Univer- sity of Oil and Gas (National 160 Research Uni- versity) Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum - 2019 Saint June 6-8 Petersburg Fifth International Professional Forum “Book. Culture. Education. Innovation ” Sudak June 10-14 (“Crimea - 2019 ”) X InfoSpace Innovation Technology Forum Moscow June 18 Videoconference dedicated to the protection of appellations of origin, or- Moscow – June 18 ganized by Rospatent, FIPS and with the assistance of WIPO and the Nenets Naryan-Mar Central Library named after A.I. Pichkov International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2019" Moscow June 25-30 Region Name Venue Date of the event of the event

21st Annual Scientific and Practical Conference "Saint Petersburg’s Collegiate Saint June 26-28 Readings - 2019" on the topic: "Intellectual Property: Theory and Practice" Petersburg Section "Effective tools to support entrepreneurship as a key factor in Moscow June 27 equal partnership between the state and business" in the framework of the Business Forum "Strategy for swift development: a partnership between the state and business" Panel discussion “Accelerating the innovative and technological develop- Ekaterinburg July 9 ment of the company: best practices” at the annual international industrial exhibition “ Innoprom-2019” Seminar of the Talent and Success Foundation on the basis of the Sirius Sochi July 10 Educational Center Seminar of the Talent and Success Foundation on the basis of the Sirius Sochi July 14-16 Educational Center Rospatent Laboratory “Development of an Intellectual Property Manage- Moscow July 17-18 ment Strategy” in the section “Technological Entrepreneurship and Technol- Region, ogy Transfer” as part of the educational intensive “Island 10-22” Skolkovo Meeting of the Center for Competence of Technological Development of the Almetyevsk July 18 Fuel and Energy Complex of the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation The “Big Challenges” program at the Sirius Educational Center Sochi July 22 Round table “Methodology for assessing and improving data quality”, organ- Moscow July 26 ized by the Analytical Center for the Government of the Russian Federation Annual Summer School on Patent Examination, organized by the Chamber of Vladimir August 5-9 Patent Attorneys Conference on Intellectual Property Management organized by United Ship- Kaliningrad September building Corporation Region, 3-6 Svetlogorsk LLC Serkons corporate conference on intellectual property: “Registration of Moscow September a trademark as a way of protecting the intellectual property of a company/ 12 individual entrepreneur” Meeting of VPTB FIPS experts with the students of the Technical Fire and Moscow, FIPS September Rescue College named after Hero of the Russian Federation V.M. Maksim- 13 chuk in the framework of the educational project "Inventors of NEXT" Round table “IP-backed loans” in the framework of the strategic session of Tula September JSC "Corporation SME" 16 International Scientific and Practical Conference “Science, Technologies, and Irkutsk September Information in Libraries” 17-19 Conference "Changes in procurement law and its application practice, work Saint September prospects" Petersburg 18-19 Conference of IP Academy Moscow September Region, 18-20 Skolkovo VII International Forum for Technological Development "TECHNO- Novosibirsk September PROM-2019" 18-20 Round table on “IP-backed loans” Ufa September 24 Webinar for teachers and students of the federal network of technological Moscow September parks for children "Kvantorium” 26 161 Second International Digital Summit Nizhny September Novgorod 26-27 II National Forum "Marketing and Innovations in Mechanical Engineering Sochi September (MIF-019)" 27-29 WineFest Festival Sevastopol September 28-29 Visiting strategic session of JSC "Corporation SME” in the Yaroslavl Region Yaroslavl September 30- October 1 Petrochemical and Oil Refining Congress: Russia and the CIS (PRC-2019) Saint September Petersburg 30- October 1 Name Venue Date of the event of the event

IX Saint Petersburg International Gas Forum Saint October 1-4 Petersburg Nauka+ Festival Tver October 4 Seminar on patent analytics for specialists of JSC ”Information Satellite Sys- Zheleznogorsk October 8-9 tems Reshetnev” WIPO Services and Initiatives Traveling Seminar organized by WIPO, Rospat- Tyumen October 14 ent, FIPS and the Tyumen Regional Public Organization “All-Russian Society of Inventors and Rationalizers” Eurasian Industrial Congress "Integration" Moscow October 15 Roving Seminar on WIPO's services and initiatives, organized by WIPO, Ro- Ekaterinburg October 16 spatent, FIPS and The Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B. N. Yeltsin XXIII International Scientific and Practical Conference of Rospatent: "The Moscow October Role of Intellectual Property in the Breakthrough Scientific and Technological 16-17 Development of Society" Roving seminar on WIPO's services and initiatives, organized by WIPO, Ro- Saint October 18 spatent, FIPS and Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University Petersburg The educational seminar “Development of the sphere of intellectual Moscow, October property in the constituent entity of the Russian Federation”, organized by Rospatent 18-19 Rospatent in cooperation with FIPS with the participation of representatives of the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia as part of the part-time continuing education program “Recommendations on the management of rights to the results of intellectual activity and means of individualization in the regions of the Russian Federation (for heads of the regions) Meeting of FIPS experts with the students of the Lomonosov Moscow State Moscow, FIPS October 21 University within the framework of the educational project “Scientific youth on intellectual property” National seminar on the PCT system and its latest changes, organized by Yaroslavl October WIPO, Rospatent, FIPS and Yaroslavl State University. P.G. Demidov 21-22 Regional scientific-practical conference “Current issues of legal protection Barnaul October 23 and use of the results of intellectual activity” targeted at experts of the Sibe- rian Federal District of the Russian Federation”, organized by FIPS in cooperation with Altai Regional Universal Library named after V.Y. Shishkov II All-Russian meeting of patent attorneys as part of the business program of Moscow October 23 the “Technoforum-2019” exhibition Round table “Brand policy - a driver for promoting dairy products” as part of Vologda October 24 the III All-Russian Dairy Forum “Vologda - the dairy capital of Russia” The First All-Russian Forum of Young Civil Servants Ufa October 27-29 National Seminar on Intellectual Property for Small and Medium-sized Enter- Ufa October prises, organized by WIPO, Rospatent, FIPS and Bashkir State University 28-29 Annual Summit of Young Scientists and Engineers “Big Challenges for Society, Sochi October 28 - State and Science” November 3 Scientific-practical conference "Challenges of legal protection and efficient Kaluga October 30 use of intellectual property" Meeting with FIPS experts and webinar “Search, examination and registration Moscow October 30 of inventions” for students and teachers of the federal network of techno- 162 logical parks for children "Kvantorium” Republican youth scientific-practical conference "Intellectual Property, Yoshkar-Ola November Modern Technique and Development Technologies of Economics" at the 5-8 All-Russian Student Forum “Engineering personnel – the future of Russian innovative economy” National seminar “Madrid System for the International Registration of Trade- Irkutsk November marks and The Hague System for the International Registration of Industrial 7-8 Designs”, organized by WIPO in cooperation with Rospatent, FIPS and Irkutsk Regional State Universal Scientific Library of Molchanov-Sibirskiy XI Annual International Partnership Forum “Life Sciences Invest. Partnering Saint November Russia » Petersburg 7-8 Name Venue Date of the event of the event

Meeting with FIPS experts and a workshop on the protection of appellations Москва, ФИПС 11 ноября of origin for students of the law faculty of the Lomonosov Moscow State University Moscow, FIPS November 11 12 ноября Meeting of FIPS experts with the students of the Moscow Aviation Institute Moscow, FIPS November 12 (National Research University) III International Forum "Intellectual Property and the Economics of Russian Kazan November Regions" 12-13 XII Saint Petersburg International Innovation Forum and XXIII International Saint November Forum “Russian Industrialist” Petersburg 13-15 Round table “IP-backed loans” in the framework of the strategic session of Volgograd 14 November JSC "Corporation SME" International Scientific and Practical Conference "Intellectual Rights: Chal- Tomsk November lenges of the 21st Century", organized by the National Research Tomsk State 14-16 University in cooperation with JSC Gazprombank XXIII International Conference "LIBCOM-2019" Susdal Vladimir November Region 18-22 Round table “Intellectual Property. Path towards Digitalization Bryansk November 20 Meeting of VPTB FIPS experts with the students of Moscow colleges of the Moscow, FIPS November 20 Service specialization in the areas of design, operational activities in logistics, hairdressing and printing manufacture with the focus on the basics of intellectual property (patents and copyright) Regional scientific-practical conference for experts of the North Cauca- Grozny November 21 sus Federal District of the Russian Federation “Current challenges of legal protection and use of the results of intellectual activity”, organized by FIPS in cooperation with the Chechen State University Round table “IP-backed loans” in the framework of the strategic session of Kazan November 21 JSC "Corporation SME" 9th International Forum “Orenburg - the Heart of Eurasia” Orenburg November 21-22 V Interdepartmental scientific-practical conference "System of interdepart- Moscow November 22 mental information interaction in addressing the challenges in the field of defense of the Russian Federation" Webinar for students and teachers of the federal network of technological Moscow, FIPS November 22 parks for children "Kvantorium" organized by VPTB FIPS Second international advisory methodological conference “Intellectual prop- Moscow November erty: value-added and the monopoly of innovations in the digital economy” 22-23 The annual all-Russian festival "Winter starts with Yakutia" Yakutsk November 25- Decem- ber 1 X (XXV) annual scientific-practical conference "Current issues of protection Moscow November and protection of intellectual property rights" organized by the Interregion- 26-29 al Public Organization for the promotion of patent attorneys “Chamber of Patent Attorneys” Round table “IP-backed loans” in the framework of the strategic session of Kaliningrad November 29 JSC "Corporation SME" Annual Conference Efficient Production 4.0 Moscow December 163 5-6 Business forum «Smart City & Region: cyber technology on the road to the Moscow December 6 “smart country” Session of the Rostec Academy on the development of civilian products Moscow December 6 "Marketing, idea, product, promotion" FIPS experts meeting with students of Moscow colleges in the area of “In- Moscow December 11 dustrial equipment and communication systems” as part of the educational project “NEXT Inventors” Forum "Promotion of Entrepreneurship - Business Start" Stary Oskol, December 13 Belgorod Region Name Venue Date of the event of the event

Webinar "How to navigate in the world of patent information?" Moscow , December 17 Federal State Budgetary Institution “Russian State Library for Youth” An extended meeting of Committee on inventive, rationalization and patent Moscow, December 17 and license activity of the Association “League to support Defense Industry Rospatent Enterprises,” organized with the assistance of Rospatent, Moscow Interna- tional Salon of Inventions and Innovative Technologies «ARCHIMEDES» and Moscow city organization VOIR Meeting of the Novgorod Regional Public Advisory Council on Intellectual Veliky December 18 Property Novgorod Session of PJSC Inter RAO "Current issues in the field of intellectual property Moscow December 19 rights management" Webinar for students and teachers of the federal network of technological Moscow December 20 parks for children "Kvantorium" organized by VPTB FIPS

164 Table 3.9 Analysis of inventive activity of the entities of the Russian Federation (excluding utility models)

Federal districts Coefficient Federal districts Coefficient and constituent entities of inventive and constituent entities of inventive of the Russian Federation activity of the Russian Federation activity Russian Federation 1,59 Chechen Republic 0,16 Central 2,74 Volga 1,18 Belgorod Region 1,01 Republic of Bashkortostan 1,39 Bryansk Region 0,41 Kirov Region 0,68 Vladimir Region 1,30 Mari El Republic 1,25 Voronezh Region 1,82 Mordovia Republic 0,59 Ivanovo Region 0,99 Nizhny Novgorod Region 1,09 Kaluga Region 1,67 Orenburg Region 0,38 Kostroma Region 0,96 Penza Region 1,08 Kursk Region 2,15 Perm Krai 1,23 Lipetsk Region 0,57 Samara Region 1,35 Moscow 4,20 Saratov Region 0,84 Moscow Region 4,36 Republic of Tatarstan 1,95 Oryol Region 0,97 Udmurt Republic 0,90 Ryazan Region 1,18 Ulyanovsk Region 1,19 Smolensk Region 0,38 Chuvashia Republic 0,96 Tambov Region 0,79 Ural 0,82 Tver Region 1,05 Kurgan Region 0,58 Tula Region 0,82 Sverdlovsk Region 1,19 Yaroslavl Region 1,23 Tyumen Region 0,87 Northwestern 2,64 Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug 0,29 (Yugra) Arkhangelsk Region 0,72 Chelyabinsk Region 0,70 Tula Region 0,60 Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug 0,63 Kaliningrad Region 0,69 Siberian 1,13 Republic of Karelia 0,70 Altai Republic 0,05 Komi Republic 0,53 Altai Region 0,72 Leningrad Region 0,36 Irkutsk Region 0,65 Murmansk Region 0,36 Kemerovo Region 0,64 Nenets Autonomous Okrug 0,00 Krasnoyarsk Region 1,43 Novgorod Region 0,93 Novosibirsk Region 1,80 Pskov Region 0,84 Omsk Region 1,13 Saint Petersburg 5,91 Tomsk Region 2,67 Southern 0,91 Tuva Republic 0,00 Adygea Republic 0,26 Republic of Khakassia 0,34 Astrakhan Region 0,68 Far Eastern 0,60 Volgograd Region 1,10 Amur Region 0,69 Kalmykia Republic 0,84 165 Buryatia 0,38 Krasnodar Krai 0,86 Jewish Autonomous Region 2,44 Republic of Crimea 0,30 Zabaykalsky Region 0,23 Rostov Region 1,28 Kamchatka Region 0,29 Sevastopol 0,86 Magadan Region 0,57 North Caucasian 0,41 Primorsky Region 0,86 Republic of Dagestan 0,28 Sakha Republic 0,57 Republic of Ingushetia 0,02 Sakhalin Region 0,18 Kabardino-Balkarian Republic 0,69 Khabarovsk Region 0,70 Karachay-Cherkess Republic 0,11 Chukotka Autonomous Okrug 0,00 North Ossetia–Alania Republic 1,13 Stavropol Krai 0,54 Table 3.10 Analysis of the inventive activity of the subjects of the Russian Federation (including utility models)

Federal districts and constituent Coefficient Federal districts and constituent Coefficient entities of the Russian Federation of inventive entities of the Russian Federation of inventive activity activity Russian Federation 2,25 Volga 1,83 Central 3,70 Republic of Bashkortostan 1,79 Belgorod Region 1,69 Kirov Region 1,22 Bryansk Region 1,12 Mari El Republic 1,87 Vladimir Region 1,65 Mordovia Republic 1,48 Voronezh Region 2,41 Nizhny Novgorod Region 1,60 Ivanovo Region 1,39 Orenburg Region 0,51 Kaluga Region 2,04 Penza Region 1,65 Kostroma Region 1,21 Perm Krai 1,83 Kursk Region 2,71 Samara Region 2,17 Lipetsk Region 0,96 Saratov Region 1,41 Moscow 5,88 Republic of Tatarstan 3,03 Moscow Region 5,25 Udmurt Republic 1,42 Oryol Region 1,41 Ulyanovsk Region 2,86 Ryazan Region 1,87 Chuvashia Republic 1,32 Smolensk Region 0,64 Ural 1,39 Tambov Region 1,12 Kurgan Region 1,11 Tver Region 1,61 Sverdlovsk Region 1,90 Tula Region 1,28 Tyumen Region 1,27 Yaroslavl Region 2,06 Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug 0,47 (Yugra) Northwestern 3,68 Chelyabinsk Region 1,38 Arkhangelsk Region 1,00 Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug 1,00 Tula Region 1,21 Siberian 1,68 Kaliningrad Region 0,93 Altai Republic 0,14 Republic of Karelia 1,36 Altai Region 1,20 Komi Republic 0,98 Irkutsk Region 0,86 Leningrad Region 0,60 Kemerovo Region 1,14 Murmansk Region 0,47 Krasnoyarsk Region 2,11 Nenets Autonomous Okrug 0,00 Novosibirsk Region 2,65 Novgorod Region 1,37 Omsk Region 1,72 Pskov Region 1,16 Tomsk Region 3,54 Saint Petersburg 8,05 Tuva Republic 0,06 Southern 1,28 Republic of Khakassia 0,43 Adygea Republic 0,35 Far Eastern 0,83 Astrakhan Region 1,03 Amur Region 0,97 Volgograd Region 1,69 Buryatia 0,49 166 Kalmykia Republic 0,92 Jewish Autonomous Region 2,44 Krasnodar Krai 1,13 Zabaykalsky Region 0,31 Republic of Crimea 0,76 Kamchatka Region 0,60 Rostov Region 1,64 Magadan Region 0,57 Sevastopol 1,29 Primorsky Region 1,07 North Caucasian 0,52 Sakha Republic 0,83 Republic of Dagestan 0,32 Sakhalin Region 0,29 Republic of Ingushetia 0,04 Khabarovsk Region 1,20 Kabardino-Balkarian Republic 0,88 Chukotka Autonomous Okrug 0,00 Karachay-Cherkess Republic 0,13 North Ossetia–Alania Republic 1,23 Stavropol Krai 0,74 Chechen Republic 0,27 Table 3.11 Data on the distribution of the number of requests received by Rospatent and its subordinate organizations by addressee and geography of the requests

Requests addressed to: Number Rospatent 890 Other state authorities 485 Organizations subordinated to Rospatent 536 Requests received from: Number the Russian Federation 1859 CIS 42 non-CIS countries 10

Table 3.12 Breakdown of applications received by Rospatent and its subordinate organizations from the Russian Federation divided by federal districts

Federal District Number of requests Central 528 Volga 175 Southern 197 Northwestern 149 Siberian 88 Ural 65 Far Eastern 37 North Caucasian 36 From the Internet (without an exact address) 584 Total: 1859

Table 3.13 Data on the distribution of applications on general issues received by Rospatent and its subordinate organizations in 2015-2019

The group Number of the requests to which the questions raised in the requests are assigned 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Examination of applications (terms, procedure, results of examina- 580 688 739 598 715 tion, workflow) Assistance to inventors 342 341 212 357 421 Titles of protection (registration, renewal and restoration of validi- 271 306 237 175 189 ty, introduction of changes, etc. Legal issues 189 270 255 158 179 Payment of patent fees 211 237 289 205 201 167 Provision of patent information services 110 143 47 47 45 Contracts (registration, disputes of the parties) 113 118 118 98 91 Publication (terms, errors) 22 35 22 28 24 Registration of discoveries 7 5 3 1 1 Training, professional development, work with patent attorneys, - 2 2 1 3 international cooperation Personnel matters and work of patent attorneys 11 9 4 7 11 Other issues (mainly not within the competence of Rospatent and 18 29 73 8 31 its subordinate organizations) Total: 1874 2183 2001 1683 1911 ANNEX 4 TO SECTION 4 OF THE REPORT

Table 4.1 Participation of the Russian Federation in International Treaties, administrated by WIPO

Title of the document Entry into force in the Russian Federation INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property from July 1,1965 Convention establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization from April 26, 1970 Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks from July 1, 1976 Protocol to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of from June 10, 1997 Marks Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) from March 29, 1978 Trademark Law Treaty (TLT) from May 11, 1998 Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorgan- from April 22, 1981 isms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure Strasbourg Agreement Concerning the International Patent Classification from October 3, 1976 Nice Agreement Concerning the International Classification of Goods and Servic- from July 26, 1971 es for the Purposes of Registration of Marks Locarno Agreement Establishing an International Classification for Industrial De- from December 15, 1972 signs Nairobi Treaty on the Protection of the Olympic Symbol from April 17, 1986 The International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (adminis- from April 24, 1998 tered by WIPO in consort with the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants - UPOV) Patent Law Treaty (PLT) from August 12, 2009 Singapore Treaty on the Law of Trademarks from December 18, 2009 Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement Concerning International Registration of from February 28, 2018 Industrial Designs

COPYRIGHT AND RELATED RIGHTS Brussels Convention Relating to the Distribution of Programme-Carrying Signals from January 20, 1989 Transmitted by Satellite Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works from March 13, 1995. The Convention for the Protection of Producers of Phonograms Against Unau- from March 13, 1995 thorized Duplication of Their Phonograms Rome Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms from May 26, 2003 and Broadcasting Organizations WIPO Copyright Agreement (WCT) from February 5, 2009 WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty (WPPT) from February 5, 2009

168 Beijing Treaty on Audiovisual Performances from August 28, 2015 The Marrakesh Treaty on Facilitating Access for Blind People and Visually Impaired from May 9, 2018 or Other Disabled Students of Printed Information to Published Works

https://www.wipo.int/treaties/ru/summary.jsp

Out of the agreements administered by WIPO, the Russian Federation does not participate in two of them: ⁕⁕ Vienna Agreement Establishing an International Classification of the Figurative Elements of Marks ⁕⁕ Lisbon Agreement for the Protection of Appellations of Origin and their International Registration. Table 4.2 Drafts of International Treaties under development

Title of the document Date of ac- Date of Main principles ceptance ratification Draft of the Treaty for Protection – – It provides new legal authorities for broad- of Broadcasting Organizations casting organizations, taking into consideration modern information and telecommunication systems, including the right to make it publicly available, to relay broadcasts by any means, including broadcasting again, wire relaying and relaying over computer networks, and the possibility of broadcasting signal, as well as obligations regarding technical measures and rights management information Drafts of International Treaties for – – The work is underway to seek protection for Protection of genetic resourc- traditional knowledge and traditional cultural es, traditional knowledge and expressions/folklore expressions, genetic re- traditional cultural expressions / sources, and traditional knowledge, related to expressions of folklore the genetic resources within the framework of the existing system of intellectual property. Draft of International Legal Docu- – – It provides standards which should be estab- ment on the Law and Practice in lished in national laws in regard to procedures the area of Industrial Designs, and for industrial designs registration the Regulations to it

Table 4.3 International applications received by Rospatent in order to conduct an international PCT search

Receiving Office A number of applications Receiving Office A number of applications received in 2019 (2018) received in 2019 (2018) USA 2677 (2897) The Republic of Bulgaria 7 (16) Rospatent 1016 (883) the Republic of Azerbai- 10 (15) jan WIPO International 127 (100) The Republic of Kazakh- 24 (14) Bureau stan Ukraine 37 (71) Romania 11 (9) The Republic of Belarus 13 (18) Eurasian Patent Office 8 (7) The Republic of Moldova 4 (5) The Kingdom of Saudi 4 (3) Arabia

Table 4.4 Patent search examination procedure

Indicators 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Number of international applications with prepared 2447 2903 3898 3924 3958 report 169 Number of international applications with prepared 75 65 60 54 57 preliminary examination report Number of applications with prepared additional 61 13 2 5 – international search report Number of prepared International-type Search Reports: upon the request of CIS countries 4 – – 5 9 upon the request of EAPO 731 606 642 663 583 upon the request of TPI 572 753 1008 174 2 Table 4.5 Indicators of Rospatent as the Receiving Office in accordance with the PCT system

Indicators 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Number of Received International Applications 950 996 1142 1077 1310 Number of International Applications filed through – 85 131 171 264 ePCT system

Table 4.6 Rospatent involvement in PPH Project

Indicators 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Number of PPH applications received by Rospatent 417 484 771 1508 1193

Table 4.7 Requests for accelerating the documents management under the PPH Program with the use of National and International PCT work product

Indicators 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Number of PPH Applications with the use 288 318 515 1165 911 of National Work Product vs previous year (%) 193 % 110 % 162 % 226 % 78 % Number of PPH Applications with the use 129 166 256 343 282 of International Work Product vs previous year (%) 258 % 129 % 154 % 134 % 82 %

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Table 5.1 Data on the number of publications on the objects for IP rights protection

Published 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Applications for inventions 25573 20283 24961 18734 15897 Patents for inventions 34712 33537 34255 35775 34008 Previously not published copyright certificates 153 436 - 77 3 and patents for inventions Patents for utility models 9014 8876 8774 9868 8848 Patents for industrial design 5493 4460 5110 6334 5420 Applications for trademarks and appellations of 44265 51827 55417 57371 67398 origin Trademarks 30573 39814 41554 49604 50076 Appellations of origin 16 7 9 13 49 The right to use the appellation of origin 33 26 28 32 73 Registrations of computer programs 13410 14218 15000 16836 17496

Registrations of databases 1804 1747 1579 2138 2525 Registrations of integrated circuit topographies 139 178 207 241 254

Total: 165185 175409 186894 197023 202047*

* As of December 27, 2019

Table 5.2 Dissemination of FIPS publications based on the Rospatent official information in 2019

Name of Number of issue sets Bulletin “Inventions. Utility Models” on CD / DVD and FTP 79 Bulletin “Trademarks, Service Marks and Appellations of Origin” on CD / DVD and FTP 20 Bulletin “Industrial Designs” on CD / DVD and FTP 30 Bulletin of "Computer programs. Databases. Integrated Circuit Topographies" on CD / DVD and 17 FTP Retrospective annual sets of descriptions of inventions for the period from 1924 to 2018 on 16 DVD / USB flash drive and FTP Sets of descriptions of utility models to the security documents for the period from 1994 to 13 2018 on DVD Sets of “Industrial Designs” for 1993–2018 on DVD / USB flash drive and FTP 5 Sets of “Trademarks” for 1991–2018 on DVD / USB flash drive and FTP 9 Reference search apparatus to the descriptions of inventions and title pages descriptions of 240 171 utility models for the period from 1994 to 2019 on DVD and FTP Table 5.3 Number of subscribers of FIPS publications based on the Rospatent official information for the period 2015 – 2019

Countries Number of subscribers 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 The Russian Federation 341 327 321 251 207 CIS Countries 6 10 9 10 9 Foreign Countries 10 10 12 12 12

Total: 357 347 342 273 228

Table 5.4 Distribution of subscribers of FIPS publications based on the Rospatent official information, depending on activity character in the Russian Federation for the period 2015 – 2019

Category of subscribers Number of subscribers 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 sub in % sub in % sub in % sub in % sub in % scribers scribers scribers scribers scribers

Scientific organizations 52 15,2 50 15,3 50 15,6 34 13,5 24 11,6 Scientific production and indus- 63 18,5 60 18,3 63 19,7 40 15,9 32 15,5 trial enterprises Educational institutions 10 3,0 10 3,1 10 3,1 6 2,4 4 1,9 Territorial Centers CSTI, Re- 160 46,9 168 51,4 180 56,1 154 61,4 136 65,7 gional Libraries, TISCs Patent Offices, Ministries 1 0,3 1 0,3 1 0,3 1 0,4 1 0,5 Law firms, patent attorneys 12 3,5 13 4,0 11 3,4 7 2,8 4 1,9 and individuals Commercial organizations 38 11,1 22 6,7 3 0,9 4 1,6 4 1,9 Other 5 1,5 3 0,9 3 0,9 5 2,0 2 1,0

Total: 341 100,0 327 100,0 321 100,0 251 100,0 207 100,0

Table 5.5 Number of subscribers of the FIPS publications, based on the official information of Rospatent, distributed into federal districts of the Russian Federation for the period 2015–2019

Federal districts Number of subscribers of the Russian Federation 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Central 133 132 130 93 80 Northwestern 26 26 25 17 14 Southern 20 21 21 15 12 172 North Caucasian 7 7 7 5 4 Volga 81 79 77 67 54 Ural 25 22 21 18 15 Siberian 28 24 24 22 18 Far Eastern 21 16 16 14 10

Total: 341 327 321 251 207 Table 5.6 International Patent Documentation Exchange

Indicators of International 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Patent Documentation Exchange Foreign patent documents received for the SPC in elec- 2757,3 2883,6 3053,5 5836,8* 6249,7* tronic form (CD, DVD, FTP). Placed on the FTP-server of domestic patent documents 3624 3624 3624 3624 3624 for foreign patent offices, number of placements **

* A significant increase is associated with an increase in the receipt of patent documentation from China. ** The FTP server contains copies of the official bulletins of Rospatent, the number of issues of bulletins and countries of exchange for the years 2015-2019.

Table 5.7 SPC structure

Number of documents 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 stored in patent collection Total, 3016,9 2993,4 3166,0 6060,8 6582,9 including: national 259,6 109,8 112,5 224,0* 333,2*

foreign 2757,3 2883,6 3053,5 5836,8** 6249,7**

* Since 2018, applications for all types of carriers and an agreement on results of intellectual activity and means of individualization are taken into account as a part of the SPC. ** A significant increase is associated with an increase in the receipt of patent documentation from China.

Table 5.8 Indicators of library information service of the Library Department, VPTB FIPS

Quantity 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Visits 86,1 86,1 86,1 189,9 220,4* Total documents issued: 31416,4 31417,1 31422,6 31424,5 31425,4 including: Paper copies 1949,9 1769,9 1511,0 992,4** 1084,7** Electronic carriers 29463 29644,6 29910,7 30426,3 30329,8 microcarriers 3,5 2,6 0,9 5,8 10,9*** References and recommendations 255,3 240,7 346,5 451,0 460,8 provided Issued copies of patent documents and 159,6 144,3 91,0 13,1**** 18,4**** other materials for library users

* Since 2018, the indicator includes statistics on requests to information products on the FIPS website (136,777 requests for 2019). ** The decrease in the indicator is associated with a decrease in views of documents on paper and an increase in views of 173 documentation in the FIPS database *** The decrease in the indicator is associated with the termination of copying materials of applications by the Library Department in accordance with the regulatory documents of FIPS. **** The decrease in the indicator is associated with the termination of copying materials of applications by the Patent Library in accordance with the regulatory documents of FIPS. Table 5.9 User requests to the section of the Department “Russian Patent and Technical Library” (VPTB), posted on the website of FIPS

Indicators 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Number of requests 134,7 135,6 105,0 105,1 105,8 Number of viewed pages 243,6 1452,9* 1378,0* 1375,6* 1377,0*

* Since 2016, statistics on the use of Library materials on the FIPS website is provided according to the Yandex.Metrica counter. In this regard, the data differs from those provided earlier, the difference is due to different counting algorithms.

Table 5.10 User requests to the section “Electronic catalogue of patent and legal documents”

Indicators 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Number of requests 22,4 24,1 19,2 19,0 30,9 Number of viewed documents 104,5 116,5 71,5 109,9 239,7*

* Since 2019, the statistics on the use of electronic catalogue on the FIPS website is provided in accordance with the Yan- dex.Metrica counter. Instead of the indicator “number of viewed documents” the indicator “number of requests” is taken into account.

174 ANNEX 6 TO SECTION 6 OF THE REPORT

Table 6.1 Training for a university degree

Mode of education 2019–2020 academic year Faculty of Law Bachelor’s degree course, full-time Enrolled 48 Bachelor’s degree course, part-time Enrolled 19 Master's degree, full-time Enrolled 8 Master's degree, extramural Enrolled 54

Intellectual Property Management Faculty Bachelor’s degree course, full-time Enrolled 45 Bachelor’s degree course, extramural Enrolled 9 Master's degree, full-time Enrolled 7 Master's degree, extramural Enrolled 15

Course 27.04.08 «Intellectual Property Management» Master's degree, full-time Enrolled 8

Table 6.2 Number of students enrolled in educational programs at the expense of budgetary allocations of the Federal budget, budgets of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, local budgets and under contracts for the provision of paid educational services in 2019

Bachelor Degree Program, course 40.03.01 “Jurisprudence” Full-time study Part-time study Extramural study Budget Contract Budget Contract Budget Contract 63 127 – 42 – 25

Master Degree Program, course 40.04.01 “Jurisprudence” Full-time study Part-time study Extramural study Budget Contract Budget Contract Budget Contract 10 12 – – 16 111

Bachelor Degree Program, course 38.03.02 “Management” Full-time study Part-time study Extramural study Budget Contract Budget Contract Budget Contract 97 53 – – – 37

Master Degree Program, course 38.04.02 “Management” 175 Full-time study Part-time study Extramural study Budget Contract Budget Contract Budget Contract 7 7 – – 7 12

Master Degree Program, course 27.04.08 “Intellectual Property Management” Full-time study Budget Contract 5 17 Table 6.3 Number of students enrolled in the Programs of Further Professional Education in RSAIP

Indicators 2018 2019 Number of Additional Professional Education Programs 33 31 – advanced professional training 25 27 – professional retraining 8 4 Number of graduated students 909 435 – on the programs of advanced professional training 828 356 – on the programs of professional retraining 81 79

Number of graduated students, by structural units of the Additional Professional Education Institute for Advanced Professional Training, Moscow 554 435 – advanced professional training, 510 356 of which using distance learning technology 102 33 – professional retraining 44 79 Volga Institute for Advanced Vocational Training and Professional Re- 355 discontinued training, Penza – advanced professional training 318 - – professional retraining 37 -

Table 6.4 Specialists graduated from Advanced Training Programs

Courses of additional professional education for officials Number of officials Development of the Public Service System of the Russian Federation, including the 3 issues, related to the implementation of modern staff management, information and managerial technologies in the public service National Foreign Policy, including the issues of integration of the Russian Federation 2 into international economic relations State Policy in the field of social and economic development of the Russian Federation 2 Enhancing the efficiency of public services provision by the Federal Executive Author- 1 ities Improvement of the efficiency of implementation by the Federal Executive Authorities 1 of the functions on control (supervision) assigned to them in their relevant fields of activity

Total: 9

176 Table 6.5 FIPS Programs of advanced professional training and professional retraining, 2019

Programs Number of Number of gradu- academic ated students hours ADVANCED PROFESSIONAL TRAINING FIPS Specialists training (internal) Advanced training for experts, conducting examination of applications 232 49 on inventions and utility models Means of individualization: trademarks and appellations of origin (Novo- 20 6 sibirsk branch) Advanced training for experts, conducting examination of applications 130 33 on trademarks

Total: 88 Education for specialists in organizations, enterprises, authorities, etc. (external) Patent Law 16 46 Recommendations on management of rights on the results of intellec- 32 62 tual activity Recommendations on management of rights on the results of intel- 16 31 lectual activity and individualization means in regions of the Russian Federation (for heads of the regions) SEMINAR Methodological basis of patent research 24 49 Preparation and examination of an application for objects for intellectu- 40 127 al property rights protection by type (inventions, utility models, industrial designs, trademarks) by sectors Application filing through PCT system 16 16 Patent search 24 94 Means of individualization: trademarks and appellations of origin 16 61 Basic franchising 16 29

Total: 515 Distance learning Introduction to the technology transfer 36 35 Developing a regional brand 36 5 Recommendations on managing the rights on the results of intellectual 72 4 activity and individualization means in Russian regions Commercial and regulatory specificity of pharmaceuticals trade in the 18 11 intellectual property rights protection context

Total: 55 PROFESSIONAL RETRAINING Legal protection of the results of the intellectual activity and manage- 330 23 ments of such rights

Total: 23 177 Table 6.6 FIPS Corporate Educational Events in 2019

Activity Number of Date participants Preparation and examination of an application for objects for intellectual prop- 14 08.04.2019– erty rights protection (inventions, utility models, industrial designs, trademarks) 12.04.2019 by sectors (LLC Gazprom Dobycha Urengoy) Recommendations on managing the rights on the results of intellectual activity 62 02.04.2019– for heads of organizations (Siberian Coal Energy Company) 05.04.2019 Methodological basis of patent research (JSC Corporation SPU-TSKB TM) 31 24.05.2019– 28.05.2019 Criteria for IP protection eligibility. The basis of patent research (Uralvagonza- 23 27.05.2019– vod) 28.05.2019 Mistakes in professional interaction with internal and external developers (JSC 90 09.07.2019 Severstal Management) Preparation and examination of an application for objects for intellectual prop- 14 24.06.2019– erty rights protection (inventions, utility models, industrial designs, trademarks) 26.06.2019; by sectors (PJSC Gazprom Neft) 15.08.2019– 17.08.2019 Preparation and examination of an application for objects for intellectual prop- 43 30.09.2019– erty rights protection (inventions, utility models, industrial designs, trademarks) 04.10.2019 by sectors (JSC Chepetskiy Mechanical Plant)

The basis of patent analytics (JSC Information Satellite Systems Reshetnev) 15 09.10.2019– 10.10.2019 Criteria for IP protection eligibility. The basis of patent research (LLC NIOST) 28 21.10.2019– 22.10.2019 Specific aspects of patenting and managing rights on the results of intellectual 19 21.10.2019– activity for the chemical industry (LLC NIOST) 22.10.2020 Legal protection of an information product (IB Group) 12 02.12.2019– 03.12.2019 Legal protection of an information product (IB Group) 9 05.12.2019– 06.12.2019 Recommendations on managing the rights on the results of intellectual activity 26 09.12.2019– (JSC Chepetskiy Mechanical Plant) 13.12.2019 Preparation and examination of an application for objects for intellectual prop- 25 09.12.2019– erty rights protection (inventions, utility models, industrial designs, trademarks) 13.12.2020 by sectors (JSC Chepetskiy Mechanical Plant)

Total: 411

178 ANNEX 7 TO SECTION 8 OF THE REPORT

Table 7.1 Federal budget revenues of the Russian Federation, administered by the Federal Service for Intellectual Property

Indicators Years 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 (preliminary data)

Finances from the payment of state, patent 5 137 403,6 5 066 725,4 5 210 682,4 7 097 269,4 7 679 098,1 and other fees and other income, RUB, in thousand* Finances received from the WIPO IB, thou- 3 090,3 3 315,8 2 930,9 3 539,8 3 542,2 sand Swiss francs

* The amount includes the ruble equivalent of finances received from WIPO MB

Table 7.2 The cost structure of Rospatent

2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 (RUB000’s) (RUB000’s) (RUB000’s) (RUB000’s) (RUB000’s) (refinded data) (preliminary data)

Remuneration of employees 1 568 825,5 1 491 485,5 1 654 704,4 1 982 299,1 2 137 184,0 General and administrative 367 900,3 366 817,3 359 695,8 387 075,1 586 633,0 expenses Publication of patent docu- 14 738,2 11 607,7 11 276,2 14 067,1 17 413,2 mentation Investments in improving the 134 989,7 148 212,2 135 297,7 702 858,3 547 780,9 basic information and technological processes, technical and software support for these processes Other capital expenditure 25 720,9 12 395,8 15 290,2 26 593,3 43 379,5 International activity 41 703,1 43 181,0 47 785,4 53 340,7 55 060,2 Training and raising of qual- 58 514,9 43 513,7 36 975,5 41 370,6 43 579,9 ification of specialists in the field of intellectual property protection Transfer of insurance pay- 431 626,6 416 669,9 464 453,8 545 831,5 588 171,0 ments to state extra- budg- etary funds for state welfare activities of citizens

Total: 2 644 019,2 2 533 883,1 2 725 479,0 3 753 435,7 4 019 201,7

179 Table 7.3 Data on staff composition of Rospatent and Federal state institutions under its jurisdiction as of 31.12.2019

Indicators FAPRID FIPS RGAIS Rospatent Actual number of staff as of 68* 2143 122* 81 31.12.2019 (key staff 2113 + external part-timers 30) - number of men 34 568 44 38 - number of women 34 1575 78 43 Occupational life: - up to 1 year 2 56* 10 4 - from 1 year to 5 years 5 242* 17 16 - from 5 years to 10 years 9 236* 19 15 - from 10 years to 15 years 12 293* 25 12 - over 15 years 40 1286* 51 34 Accumulated period of work in the Rospatent system: - up to 1 year 19 172* 28 6

- from 1 year to 5 years 10 398* 35 38 - from 5 years to 10 years 13 320* 23 15 - from 10 years to 15 years 13 326* 14 8 - over 15 years 13 897* 22 14 Public service period: - up to 1 year 2 2 7 - from 1 year to 5 years 3 1 25 - from 5 years to 10 years 2 3 12 - from 10 years to 15 years 2 2 12 - over 15 years 5 1 25 Have higher educational attain- 60 1679 109 79 ment, including - in the humanities 37 740 102 67 - technical 16 939 11 12 Have 2 and more higher educa- 7 96 13 14 tional attainment Academic degree, including - 82 46 5 - Candidate of Sciences - 77 33 5 - Doctor of Sciences - 5 13 - Have academic status, including - 8 32 -

180 - professor - 1 12 - - assistant professor - 4 20 - - senior scientist researcher - 3 - Have incomplete higher education 1 26 9 - Have vocational secondary edu- 7 168 4 2 cation

* excluding employees working on conditions of external secondary employment 181 Annual official edition of The Edited by: Federal Service for Intellectual Ivliev G., Ph.D. of legal sciences Property (Rospatent). EDITORIAL TEAM The report contains statistical and analytical materials, reflecting Team Leaders on preparation of the performance of Rospatent and its annual report Rospatent: subordinates organizations in 2019. Zubov Yu., Ph.D. of Education; Kiriy L.

Scientific Editors: Neretin O. Ph.D. of Economics; Sukonkin A., Ph.D. in tech. sciences, senior researcher.

Scientific Advisers: Alekseeva O., Ph.D. in legal sciences; Ivanova M., Doctor of Social Science

Members of the Editorial Board: Arakelova A., Ph.D. of Arts; Gorbunov A.; Ena O.V; Zhuravlev A., Ph.D. of legal sciences; Ivanov G.; Ivanova I.; Kiseleva E.; Koroleva E., Ph.D. of Economics Kuznetsova T., Ph.D. of Education, prof.; Signed on print Lisnik I.; Mikheeva G.; Prischep A.; 182 pages Renzhin S.; Rogoleva A.; Rudnev A.; Format 210 × 297 mm Rukin O.; Salnikov M. Yu .; Order 358 Solonovich A., Ph.D. of tech. sciences; Circulation … copies. Sychev A., Ph.D. of legal sciences; Tereshchenko D.; Travnikov D.; Published by: Tsyganova E.; Chekmareva M.; Federal State Budgetary Erivantseva T., M.D. Institution “Federal Institute of industrial property” (FIPS) Editors: Korobko I.; Reut B. Berezhkovskaya nab., D. 30–1, Moscow, GSP‑3, 125993, Art Curator: Russian Federation Savchenko D. Design, Moscow, 2020 Coordinator: page layout: © Text, Rospatent, 2020 Parshin N. LLC “iPrint”