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Comprehensive search in Russian patent and non-patent literature

Editor — Tue, 19 May 2009 18:03:45 +0000

Yesterday, while communicating on a matter of getting an old Russian patent, we received a question:

“If I may ask you, what is you service about? Do you have
access to scientific information other than patents? for the past 10
years we are involved in catechin and other biflavonoids research and
discovered that many studies have been conducted in Russia / USSR.”

Actually, I was under impression what scope of our services is rather simple yet in detail explained at Patents from RU site – but apparently there is much to improve.

I took some time to summarize a description of our services in regard of scientific information researches we’ve been involved in lately – comprehensive search in Russian patent and non-patent literature has been our main occupation.

First off, here is a summary of search related services we carry out:

1) Russian patent documents delivery (for documents dated back to 1924).

We charge $29.50 per documents which are available in databases, and $50 for documents (like applications) which need to be ordered from archives.

Databases include Russian patents, Russian utility models and Russian industrial designs.

2) Russian patent database research

This service relates to cases when only a partial information is available.
We charge per hour, $60/hour.
Results will include document numbers and abstracts (if possible, in English).

3) Prior art search in patent databases of Russia and former USSR republics.

We charge $295 per subclass of IPC (there might be 1 to 5 subclasses) for searching Russian patents going back to 1924, and flat fee of $295 per search for searching fSU databases (back to 1993).

Normally, patent search is completed within a week.

Regarding English-language summary of the relevancy of found documents – the cost quoted does not include translation. English language abstracts are normally (but not 100%) available for post 1991 Russian patents – but older documents never had an English language abstracts.

We’ll do our best though to provide a short summary of each found
reference.

4) Russian Non-patent literature search (including bibliography research, Russian Internet queries, manual search in libraries).

We charge $60/hour, minimum 15 hours.
We’ll be providing intermediary reports as which literature was searched and what was found, so client will maintain control over expenses and time frame.

It’s hardly possible to provide time frame estimate – a 1-1.5 months would be more/less safe bet.

5) Document delivery service for references cited in bibliography research.

We charge $50 per references (up to 50 pages).
As a rule, we’ve been able to obtain Russian journal articles within a week.
Success rate is about 95%.

We’re able to obtain non-Russian references as well (especially from Eastern Europe countries), but success rate is considerably lower – although we do have a patron who keeps turning to us as his last resort once he’s unable to track non-Russian articles and oftentimes we’ve been able to deliver.

6) Russian to English translation service

We charge $0.12/word (English). All translations are being proof-edited by our partner in USA whose mother tongue is American English. His specializations are: pharmaceuticals, chemistry, biotechnology, agrochemicals, medical, and polymers.

His background includes:
- Two Years chemical research at CB Research & Development and Beard Research Inc., Senior Research Chemist
- Eleven years chemical research at DuPont, Senior Research Chemist
- Six years academic teaching and research at Polytechnic University, Brooklyn
· Collaborations with researchers in Germany, Soviet Union and Japan

Further on, here is an example of latest comprehensive search in biochem field. This is just an outline of the job done, but upon inquiry I can provide copies of actual search reports.

Results of the search were submitted to client in following order:

search-report-patents.doc
report-internet.pdf
report-articles.pdf
report-articles-2.pdf
report-articles-2a.pdf
report-foreign journals.pdf

Project scope:

1) Prior art search in Russian patent literature, at $295 per IPC subclass, total two subclasses searched (A61K 31/ and C07C 233/); results delivered as PDF files.
2) Prior art search in other Russian language databases – namely
former USSR countries patent databases and EAPATIS (Eurasian patents), at $295 per search
3) Prior art search in Russian non-patent literature, at $60/hour, total 18 hours spent

Charge for the project was: US$1965.00

There were neither translation nor document delivery services involved in this case.

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Source: Russian patents blog

First-To-File vs First-to-Invent explained, quite nicely

Editor — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:48:29 +0000

While googling today on prior art matters, I happened across Patent Baristas blog.

Of particular interest to me was recent post on regard of (US) Patent reform – Patent Reform: What Does First-To-File Mean To Me? – Stephen Albainy-Jenei quite nicely explained First-To-File vs First-to-Invent (and variation first-inventor-to-file) issues, so I do understand much better matters re prior art importance:

The second difference involves prior art. â€¦ In the first-to-file system, prior art includes all art that exists prior to the filing date â€“ again, an objective inquiry. In contrast, in a first-to-invent system, prior art is measured from the more amorphous date of invention.

Also of importance to me was clarification what “Prior art also will no longer have any geographic limitations; thus in section 102 the â€œin this countryâ€ limitation as applied to â€œpublic useâ€ and â€œon saleâ€ is removed, and the phrase â€œavailable to the publicâ€ is added to clarify the broad scope of relevant prior art, as well as to emphasize the fact that it must be publicly available.”

Conclusion: I expect more inquiries for Russian prior art search and for Russian scientific and medical literature search and delivery pouring in this year.

Portfolio of most recent Russian prior art searches

Editor — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:26:15 +0000

We’ve been keeping our site updated – last week we put up portfolio of most recent Russian prior art searches.

For starters, here is one of these:

The Russian prior art search has been carried out among Russian and Soviet patent documents with an effective date after 1959 till present which concern Pd/Pd alloy membrane on porous metal support with an intermediate layer formed by oxidation, where the membrane structure is: top layer (Pd/Pd alloy) + intermediate layer (metal oxide) + porous metal support.

You’d better not ignore Russian Prior Art search – says New Scientist magazine

Editor — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:56:54 +0000

LED developed in Russia in 1920s

By Nick Farrell
The Inquirer

CLAIMS THAT the LED was invented by four independent American research groups in 1962 are false, according to New Scientist magazine.

The mag’s hacks have found that the LED was invented by a Russian genius around forty years earlier.

Oleg Vladimirovich Losev was a radio technician who noticed that diodes used in radio receivers emitted light when current was passed through them. In 1927, he published details in a Russian journal of the first ever LED.

Details of Losev’s invention have been dug up by Nikolay Zheludev, at the University of Southampton.

It is not as if the discoveries were locked in Russia and never escaped. Losev also published on his discoveries in German and British journals where they were ignored. More than sixteen papers written between 1924 and 1930 he comprehensively detailed the function of his LED.

He used Einstein’s quantum theory to explain the way electrons dropping in energy produced the light without releasing heat. When he wrote to the man himself, but Einstein didn’t reply. In 1927 he Losev filed a patent for a ‘light relay’ that used his devices ‘for fast telegraphic and telephone communication, transmission of images and other applications…’ None of his work was picked up and Losev died of hunger in 1942 during the siege of Leningrad (aka St.Petersburg), at the age of 39.

Zheludev discovered that in November 1941, Losev tried to get a paper based on a discovery that using semiconductors, a three-terminal system may be constructed analogous to a vacuum triode. Zheludev thinks that he may have invented the transistor.

Download Zheludev’s full paper here.

Source: New Scientist article

Russian Prior Art search

Some of Oleg Losev’s patents (to get full text copies and/or translation of these patents, please contact PatentsfromRU.com)

Light relay (Soviet patent SU12191, 1927.02.28)
Light relay (Soviet patent SU25657, 1931.02.26)
Geterodine radio receiver (Soviet patent SU467, 1923.12.18)
Device For Locating Oscillating Points of Contact Detector (Soviet patent SU472, 1923.12.18)
A method to Generate Endless Oscillations (Soviet patent SU996, 1922.02.21)
A method to control reoscillation in crystadine receivers (Soviet patent SU4904, 1926.03.29)
A method of prevention of occurrence of electric fluctuations in reception contours of intralamps transformers of low frequency (Soviet patent SU11101, 1927.02.28)
Electrolytes rectifier (Soviet patent SU28548, 1930.11.27)
A method for frequency transformation (Soviet patent SU29875, 1926.03.24)
A method to produce photoresistor (Soviet patent SU32067, 1933.05.08)
A method to produce photoresistor (Soviet patent SU39883, 1934.01.21)
A contact rectifier (Soviet patent SU33231, 1931.04.29)