General information

Valid Nice Classification – NCL 11-2018

Registration – about 8-12 months from the application filing date.

Confirmation document – Certificate.

Procedures feature – from the application filing date it is necessary to regularly monitor trademark applications to check whether any of them conflict with your trademark.

 

Procedure

 

Requirements

1. Applicant information – full name / title and registered office / registration address.
2. Trademark images and/or verbal elements, etc.
3. Power of Attorney (scanned copy without legalization).

 

General information

Invention

Registration period – about 2-5 years from the application filing date.

Confirmation document – Certificate.

Term of validity – 20 years from the application filing date. Patent for invention can be extended for additional 5 years if the patent object is a medicinal product, pesticide or agrochemical, and when the product use requires permission according to the procedure established by law.

What can be protected: product (device, substance, microorganism strain, plant and animal cell culture, etc.); method (process of affecting material object with material resources), including use of the product or method for the specific purpose (for example, for treating diseases).

Utility model

Registration period – about 12-24 months from the application filing date.

Confirmation document – Certificate.

Term of validity – 8 years from the application filing date.

What can be protected: device.

 

Procedure

Invention

Step	Term	Official Notification	Deadline
Application Filing	1 day	Notification with registration number, applicant name, date and time of filing	Direct filing with claiming priority – 12 months from priority date
Formal Examination	4-6 months from application filing date	Notification on patentability verification results / Preliminary conclusion / Notification of formal examination completion	Response to formal examination request – 2 months from date of reception
Substantive Examination	36 months from filing request for substantive examination	Preliminary conclusion / Decision on grant/refuse	Filing request for substantive examination – within 3 years from application filing date Response to substantive examination request – 2 months from date of reception Response to notification on patentability verification results – 6 months from date of reception
Publication and Grant	within 3 months from grant fees payment	Certificate	Payment of grant and publication fees – 3 months from reception of grant decision
Maintenance	annually	Invitation to pay annuity fees	Annuity fees are paid from the third year, counting from application filing date Annuity fees for each subsequent year are paid during previous year

 

Utility model

Step	Term	Official Notification	Deadline
Application Filing	1 day	Notification with registration number, applicant name, date and time of filing	Direct filing with claiming priority – 12 months from priority date
Formal Examination	3-4 months from filing fees payment	Preliminary conclusion / Decision of grant/refuse	Response to formal examination request – 2 months from date of reception
Publication and Grant	about 2 months from grant fees payment	Certificate	Payment of grant and publication fees – 3 months from reception of grant decision
Maintenance	annually	Invitation to pay annuity fees	Annuity fees payment – during last 4 months of current year of validity

 

Requirements

1. Applicant information – full name / title and registered office.
2. Inventor information – full name and registration address.
3. Number of International publication (for PCT procedure) or application materials: claims, description, abstract, drawings (for non-PCT procedure; international application was not published).
4. Translation of the application into Russian (we prepare by ourselves).
5. Power of Attorney (no legalization or notarization required) must be submitted within 2 months from the date of filing.
6. Certified copy of the priority application (if priority is claimed) must be submitted within 16 months from the date of filing.

 

 

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