Posted on January 17th, 2008 by Editor
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 the applicant/office and details of examination procedures.
If you can provide such documents, can you please give me an indication of the costs and timescales involved?
A: No, we do not provide such a service, due to the fact that Russian
patent office does not disclose such a data to third parties.
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Posted on January 16th, 2008 by Editor
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) is unable to make any decisions, as the Section 4 of Civil Code that took effect January 1, 2008 abrogated all regulations governing its activities.
But the new administrative regulations that are to assume the respective functions haven’t come in force so far. Nowadays, anyone may use the invention of any person or company due to the lack of the patent.
Previously, Rospatent had certain number of rules. Now, there is a draft of administrative regulations instead of them. As they haven’t been approved and taken effect, the experts may refer to neither the old nor the new rules, said lawyer Vadim Uskov.
According to patent agents, the disputable provisions are numerous in new regulations, which actually slows down their adoption. But the problem calls for urgent solution, so the regulations will be passed in the nearest future irrespective of wording, the analysts predict.
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Posted on January 15th, 2008 by Editor
As I mentioned on Jan 10th, we got request for Russian litarature search and delivery of two Russian medical articles
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1) Effect of some benzimidazole and quinoxaline derivatives on bulbar mechanis
By Tyurenkov, I. N.
Mater., Povolzh. Konf. Fiziol. Uchastiem Biokhim., Farmakol. Morfol., 6th
p.63-4 1973
2) Peripheral mechanisms of action of some vasoactive substances.
Petrov, V. I.
Trudy Volgogradskogo Gosudarstvennogo Meditsinskogo Instituta
p.119-21 1977
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As of today (Jan 15th), both articles are already delivered to the customer. It took us 3 business days to get first one (“Peripheral mechanisms…”) and 4 days for delivery of 2nd one (“Effect of some benzimidazole…”).
In both cases, none of the articles were available in electronic form. To be able to deliver 1st article we had to contact the author (and he responded promptly! Thanks Prof.Petrov one more time for friendly communication!) – and 2nd article came from Chuvash University (who published conference proceedings) via local sci-tech library connection.
We’re putting these two titles into our Russian scientific and medical literature search portfolio.
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