GENERAL OVERVIEW OF THE IPR PROTECTION IN RUSSIA © ARS-PATENT 2013 “ARS UNA − SPECIES MILLE” | www.ars- patent.com GENERAL OVERVIEW OF THE IPR PROTECTION IN RUSSIA | Russia is a member of all most important International Conventions, Treaties and Agreements, like Paris Convention, WIPO Convention, TRIPS, РСТ, PLT, Madrid Agreement and Protocol, Singapore Treaty, TLT, Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, etc. part 1 | GENERAL OVERVIEW OF THE IP PROTECTION IN RUSSIA “ARS UNA − SPECIES MILLE” | www.ars- patent.com STRUCTURE OF RUSSIAN LEGISLATION for protection of intellectual Property Rights | STRUCTURE OF THE RUSSIAN LEGISLATION for Intellectual Property Rights Protection CONSTITUTION OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION CIVIL CODE CRIMINAL CODE CODE OF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFENCES CODE OF CIVIL PROCEDURE CODE OF COMMERCIAL COURT PROCEDURE CODE OF CRIMINAL COURT PROCEDURE Special Acts, e.g. Act on Protection of Competition New: Decisions of the Russian Supreme Commercial Court Government Enactments, e.g. Statute of Patent Fees Administrative Regulations for the RU PTO Activity part 1 | GENERAL OVERVIEW OF THE IP PROTECTION IN RUSSIA “ARS UNA − SPECIES MILLE” | www.ars- patent.com STRUCTURE OF RUSSIAN LEGISLATION for Intellectual Property Rights Protection | cont. CIVIL CODE PART IV: RIGHTS TO THE RESULTS OF INTELLECTUAL ACTIVITY AND TO MEANS OF INDIVIDUALIZATION Art. 1225 – 1551 Completely dedicated to IPR matters Last amendments – 2008 Further changes are expected by the end of 2013 part 1 | GENERAL OVERVIEW OF THE IP PROTECTION IN RUSSIA “ARS UNA − SPECIES MILLE” | www.ars- patent.com STATIC DATA OF IP ACTIVITY IN RUSSIA (Annual report for 2012) | STATIC DATA OF IP ACTIVITY IN RUSSIA Inventions: The dynamics of filing and examination of patent applications 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 Filed with the RU PTO, totally including: 41849 38564 42500 41414 44211 Russian applicants 27712 25598 28722 26495 28701 Foreign applicants 14137 12966 13778 14919 15510 Examined, totally 38909 40966 41031 42860 42054 Granting decisions, including: 29903 32144 30998 32250 32428 Russian applicants 22668 23502 21307 22339 21752 Foreign applicants 7235 8642 9691 9911 10676 Refusal decision, including: 1230 959 963 844 873 Russian applicants 1078 816 809 728 693 Foreign applicants 152 143 154 116 180 Decisions to withdraw the application, including: 6888 6982 8095 8687 6848 Russian applicants 4503 4060 4161 5161 3975 Foreign applicants 2385 2922 3934 3526 2873 part 1 | GENERAL OVERVIEW OF THE IP PROTECTION IN RUSSIA “ARS UNA − SPECIES MILLE” | www.ars- patent.com STATIC DATA OF IP ACTIVITY IN RUSSIA (Annual report for 2012) | cont. Inventions: The number of valid Russian patents as of 31.12.2012 Valid as of 31.12.2011 168558 Number of patents for inventions granted in 2012 32880 Terminated in 2012 (after the period of validity and / or for non-payment 19923 annual maintenance fee, or in effect on the decisions of RU PTO) Valid as of 31.12.2012 181515 part 1 | GENERAL OVERVIEW OF THE IP PROTECTION IN RUSSIA “ARS UNA − SPECIES MILLE” | www.ars- patent.com STATIC DATA OF IP ACTIVITY IN RUSSIA (Annual report for 2012) | cont. part 1 | GENERAL OVERVIEW OF THE IP PROTECTION IN RUSSIA “ARS UNA − SPECIES MILLE” | www.ars- patent.com STATIC DATA OF IP ACTIVITY IN RUSSIA (Annual report for 2012) | cont. Utility Models: The dynamics of filing and examination of UM applications 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 Filed with the RU PTO, totally including: 10995 11153 12262 13241 14069 Russian applicants 10483 10728 11757 12584 13479 Foreign applicants 512 425 505 657 590 Examined, totally 10715 11953 11285 12541 13410 Granting decisions, including: 10000 11094 10514 11614 12282 Russian applicants 9555 10710 10059 11090 11766 Foreign applicants 445 384 455 524 516 Refusal decision, including: 25 42 20 0 56 Russian applicants 25 39 20 0 52 Foreign applicants 0 3 0 0 4 Decisions to withdraw the application, 690 817 751 927 1072 including: Russian applicants 648 775 724 887 1033 part 1 | ForeignGENERAL OVERVIEW applicants OF THE IP PROTECTION IN RUSSIA 42 42 27“ARS UNA − SPECIES40 MILLE”39 | www.ars - patent.com STATIC DATA OF IP ACTIVITY IN RUSSIA (Annual report for 2012) | cont. Utility Models: The number of valid Russian UM patents as of 31.12.2012 Valid as of 31.12.2011 46876 Number of patents for UM granted in 2012 11671 Terminated in 2012 (after the period of validity and / or for non-payment 7801 annual maintenance fee, or in effect on the decisions of RU PTO) Valid as of 31.12.2012 50746 part 1 | GENERAL OVERVIEW OF THE IP PROTECTION IN RUSSIA “ARS UNA − SPECIES MILLE” | www.ars- patent.com STATIC DATA OF IP ACTIVITY IN RUSSIA (Annual report for 2012) | cont. part 1 | GENERAL OVERVIEW OF THE IP PROTECTION IN RUSSIA “ARS UNA − SPECIES MILLE” | www.ars- patent.com STATIC DATA OF IP ACTIVITY IN RUSSIA (Annual report for 2012) | cont. Industrial Designs: The dynamics of filing and examination of designs applications 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 Filed with the RU PTO, totally including: 4711 3740 3997 4197 4640 Russian applicants 2356 1972 1981 1913 1928 Foreign applicants 2355 1768 2016 2284 2712 Examined, totally 5194 5460 4557 4101 4025 Granting decisions, including: 4360 4538 3940 3400 3374 Russian applicants 2273 2055 1940 1485 1342 Foreign applicants 2087 2483 2000 1915 2032 Refusal decision, including: 179 120 112 143 140 Russian applicants 139 99 94 103 100 Foreign applicants 40 21 18 40 40 Decisions to withdraw the application, 655 802 505 558 511 including: Russian applicants 495 614 392 403 375 part 1 | ForeignGENERAL OVERVIEW applicants OF THE IP PROTECTION IN RUSSIA 160 188 113“ARS UNA −155 SPECIES MILLE”136 | www.ars - patent.com STATIC DATA OF IP ACTIVITY IN RUSSIA (Annual report for 2012) | cont. Industrial Designs: The number of valid Russian ID patents as of 31.12.2012 Valid as of 31.12.2011 21295 Number of patents for ID granted in 2012 3381 Terminated in 2012 (after the period of validity and / or for non-payment 2046 annual maintenance fee, or in effect on the decisions of RU PTO) Valid as of 31.12.2012 22630 part 1 | GENERAL OVERVIEW OF THE IP PROTECTION IN RUSSIA “ARS UNA − SPECIES MILLE” | www.ars- patent.com STATIC DATA OF IP ACTIVITY IN RUSSIA (Annual report for 2012) | cont. part 1 | GENERAL OVERVIEW OF THE IP PROTECTION IN RUSSIA “ARS UNA − SPECIES MILLE” | www.ars- patent.com STATIC DATA OF IP ACTIVITY IN RUSSIA (Annual report for 2012) | cont. Trade Marks and Service Marks: The dynamics of filing and examination of TM applications 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 Applications for registration of marks, totally, 57112 50107 56848 59717 61923 including: Russian applicants 30024 26448 32735 33252 34851 Foreign applicants, including: 27088 23659 24113 26465 27072 International marks for which legal protection is claimed in the RF under the Madrid Agreement or 16738 15113 14289 16083 15875 Protocol Examined totally, including: 50586 55852 53408 54993 57528 Granting decisions 43002 46440 43920 39553 41830 Refusal decisions 7333 9106 8950 9145 10424 Withdrawal decisions 251 306 538 328 791 Withdrawal and refusal on the formal examination 4211 4635 6828 5967 4483 part 1 | GENERAL OVERVIEW OF THE IP PROTECTION IN RUSSIA “ARS UNA − SPECIES MILLE” | www.ars-patent.com STATIC DATA OF IP ACTIVITY IN RUSSIA (Annual report for 2012) | cont. Trade Marks and Service Marks: The dynamics of TM registrations 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 Number of Registered Marks, totally 36617 36436 35178 35954 40106 including: From Russian applicants 19895 19585 20116 16311 19284 From foreign applicants 16722 16851 15062 19643 20822 of all of that International marks for which legal protection is claimed in the RF 8518 8101 6019 12724 13067 under the Madrid Agreement or Protocol Number of TM which term of validity was 6431 6690 9554 11915 11746 extended, Totally, including from Russian applicants 3550 4243 6119 8525 7852 From foreign applicants 2881 2447 3435 3390 3894 Valid registrations as of 31.12.2012 222208 246607 268165 281784 296631 part 1 | GENERAL OVERVIEW OF THE IP PROTECTION IN RUSSIA “ARS UNA − SPECIES MILLE” | www.ars-patent.com PECULIARITIES OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OBJECTS IN RUSSIA | PECULIARITIES OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OBJECTS IN RUSSIA Civil Code Article 1225. Protectable Results of Intellectual Activity and Means of Individualization 1. Results of intellectual activity and equated to them means of individualization of legal persons, goods, work, services, and enterprises that are provided with legal protection (intellectual property) are: 1] Works of science, literature, and art; 2] Computer programs (software); 3] Databases; 4] Performances; 5] Phonograms; part 2 | GENERAL OVERVIEW OF THE IP PROTECTION IN RUSSIA “ARS UNA − SPECIES MILLE” | www.ars-patent.com PECULIARITIES OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OBJECTS IN RUSSIA | cont. 6] Communication over the air or by cable of radio or television transmissions (broadcast by organizations of over-the-air or cable broadcasting); 7] Inventions; 8] Utility models; 9] Industrial designs; 10] Selection attainments; 11] Topology of integrated circuits; 12] Secrets of production (know-how); 13] Company names; 14] Trademarks and service marks; 15] Appellation of origin of goods; 16] Commercial designations. part 2 | GENERAL OVERVIEW OF THE IP PROTECTION IN RUSSIA “ARS UNA − SPECIES MILLE” | www.ars- patent.com PECULIARITIES OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OBJECTS IN RUSSIA | cont. Civil Code Article 1349. Objects of Patent Rights 1. The objects of patent rights are the results of intellectual activity in the scientific and technical area that meet the requirements established by the present Code for inven- tions and utility models and the results of intellectual activity in the area of art design that meet the requirements established by the present Code for industrial designs. 2. Relates to secret inventions. 3. Stipulates that patent protection may not be granted to secret utility models and secret industrial designs.