Translating Chemistry: Poor translation is costly

Demand for specialized translations of Russian patent documents (mostly chemical patents) has been growing steadily during the last few years. As we already mentioned, portfolio of Russian chemical patents translated into English is available via PatentsFromRU site. At the end of 2007, our colleague collaborated with two other chemically-oriented translators to write a letter to […]

Q: Russian File Histories

Here is another addition to list of frequently asked questions. Russian File Histories are being increasingly of interest lately, and today we received this message: Q: I would like to know whether you are able to provide copies of Russian file histories (file wrapper), showing the documents filed at the Russian Patent Office, correspondence between […]

Russian Patent Office is on hiatus

Russian Civil Code has changed, and it didn’t come unnoticed in the West (see IP Factor comment). Russian patent office is yet to publish Russian Civil Code… Accordign to Kommersant Daily, the procedures for intellectual property protection could’t be applied starting from the New Year. Russia’s Federal Service for Intellectual Property, Patents and Trademarks (Rospatent) […]