Offices & Countries / Russia

In Russia our company has established two offices - in St. Petersburg and Moscow. Our head office is located in St. Petersburg. It was founded in 1994 and remains the main office of our company. Here we receive all the orders and distribute them further among our other offices and representatives. The Moscow branch office was established in 2003. It is now developing and operating as a connecting link between our head office and the Russian Patent and Trademark Office.

The Patent System of the Russian Federation

The Russian Trademark and Patent Office has the official name - the Federal Service for Intellectual Property, Patents and Trademarks. It is a federal executive authority performing functions of control and supervision in the area of the legal protection and exploitation of intellectual property rights, including patents and trademarks.

National intellectual property legislation of the Russian Federation:

• PATENT LAW of the Russian Federation of September 23, 1992 (with changes and amendments introduced by the Federal Law of February 07, 2003, in force as of March 11, 2003, except for paragraphs 14 and 15 of item 2, paragraph 8 of item 23, item 30 of article 1 and item 1 of article 7 in respect to secret invitation that come into force as of January 01, 2004)
• Law of the Russian Federation ON TRADEMARKS, SERVICE MARKS AND APPELLATIONS OF ORIGIN OF GOODS of September 23, 1992 (with changes and amendments introduced by the Federal Law on December 11, 2002, in force as of December 27, 2002)
• Law of the Russian Federation ON THE LEGAL PROTECTION OF COMPUTER PROGRAMS AND DATABASES of September 23, 1992 (with changes and amendments introduced by the Federal Law on December 24, 2002)
• Law of the Russian Federation ON THE LEGAL PROTECTION OF THE TOPOLOGIES OF INTEGRATED CIRCUITS of September 23, 1992 (with changes and amendments introduced by the Federal Law on July, 2002)
• Law of the Russian Federation ON COPYRIGHT AND NEIGHBORING RIGHTS

International agreements:

• Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization
• Universal Copyright Convention
• Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property
• Patent Cooperation Treaty
• Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks
• Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works
• International Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants
• Agreement Concerning the Laws on Trademarks
• Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure
• Nairobi Treaty on the Protection of the Olympic Symbol
• Protocol to Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks
• Nice Agreement Concerning the International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of the Registration of Marks
• Convention for the Protection of Producers of Phonograms Against Unauthorized Duplication of Their Phonograms
• WIPO Copyright Treaty
• WIPO Phonogram and Performance Treaty
• The International Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organizations
• Hague Agreement Concerning the International Deposit of Industrial Designs
• Patent Rights Agreement
• Locarno Agreement Establishing an International Classification for Industrial Designs
• Strasbourg Agreement Concerning the International Patent Classification
• Eurasian Patent Convention
• Brussels Convention Relating to the Distribution of Program-Carrying Signals Transmitted by Satellite