Intellectual Property Bureau

1. Consultations on the patenting technologies in Russia and foreign countries.

2. Preparation and filing of applications for the grant of the Russian Federation patent to a federal-level executive governmental body for intellectual property (the Rospatent), and preparation and filing of international and Eurasian applications.

3. Preparation and filing of applications for the state registration of trademarks (service marks) and protected designations of origin to the Rospatent.

4. Preparation and filing of applications for the state registration of application software, data bases and integrated circuit layouts to the Rospatent.

5. Records-keeping activities with the Rospatent, patent authorities of foreign states, and WIPO, European Patent Office and Eurasian Patent Organization as to the applications filed and to the patents granted.

6. Preparation and filing of applications for the patent term extension, applications for the extension of the exclusive right term as to the trademark or the collective trademark, arranging the payment of patent maintenance fees.

7. Searching by trademarks.

8. Patent infringement searching.

9. Patent searching to determine whether a technology meets the patentability requirements.

10. Consultations on the laws of the Russian Federation and the rules of international law governing intellectual property, and application thereof.

11. Development of the memoranda relating to the comprehensive statutory regulation of intellectual property relations, including assessment of the compliance risks associated with contracts, determining the possibility to consider disputes in this sphere in court.

12. Development of draft contracts (agreements), in particular:

- license agreements;

- contracts for the alienation of the exclusive rights to the results of intellectual activity and means of identification;

- commercial concession contracts;

- contracts for the pledge of the exclusive rights to the results of intellectual activity and means of identification;

- contracts for making a contribution to the authorized capital in the form of the exclusive rights / rights to use;

- ordering agreements for developing the items covered by the exclusive rights;

- research and development contracts;

- contracts for the alienation of the right to obtain a patent, and the right to register a trademark;

- assignment agreements as to the right to manage a domain name;

- distribution agreements;

- non-disclosure agreements;

- technology transfer contracts;

- contracts for services and other contracts governing intellectual property relations.

13. Arranging filing of documents to the Rospatent and records-keeping activities with the Rospatent in connection with the registration of:

- contracts for the alienation of the exclusive right;

- license agreements;

- pledge contracts;

- commercial concession contracts; and

- transfer of the exclusive right without any contract.

14. Representation of clients in the Chamber for Patent Disputes, in particular, preparation and filing of objections, applications, opinions thereon, records-keeping activities with the Chamber for Patent Disputes, representation of clients at the meetings held by the panels of the Chamber for Patent Disputes, in particular, in respect of:

- objections against the patent refusal decisions, the decisions on the grant of a patent, the decisions according to which an application for the grant of a patent shall be deemed withdrawn, those against the grant of a patent;

- objections against the decisions passed as a result of the formal examination of the application for the registration of a trademark, the registration of the protected designation of origin and granting the right to use it, objections against decisions according to the examination of the designation applied for under the application for the registration of a trademark, registration of the protected designation of origin and granting the right to use it, objections against the decisions on granting or refusal to grant the protection to international trademarks in the Russian Federation, objections against the decisions according to which an application for the registration of a patent shall be deemed withdrawn, those against legal protection of a trademark or a protected designation of origin, those against international registration legal protection of a trademark in the Russian Federation;

- applications according to which a trademark shall be deemed famous in the Russian Federation, those on the early termination of the legal protection of the trademark where the registered trademark becomes a designation which is a commonplace name as designating a certain kind of goods, those on the termination of the legal protection of the protected designation of origin, objections against the legal protection of the trademark that is famous in the Russian Federation.

15. Legal representation of clients in courts of general jurisdiction and commercial courts of any instances, in arbitration courts, in international commercial arbitration, in particular, legal reasoning, preparation of judicial documents, participating in court sessions, representation of the project participants during enforcement proceedings relating to any categories of disputes connected with the protection of rights to the results of intellectual activity and means of identification, including disputes on:

- challenging the regulations, passed by federal-level executive governmental bodies, affecting rights and legitimate interests in the sphere of legal protection of the results of intellectual activity and means of identification;

- legal protection of the results of intellectual activity and means of identification equivalent thereto and termination of the protection, in particular those on:

- challenging non-regulatory instruments, decisions and actions (omissions to act) of federal-level executive governmental bodies for intellectual property;

- cancellation of the patent for an invention, a utility model, an industrial design or a selection invention, decisions on the legal protection of the trademark, designation of origin, or on the granting the exclusive right to the designation;

- identifying the patent holder;

- the early termination of the legal protection of trademarks as a result of the non-use thereof;

- challenging the decisions passed by a federal competition body according to which the actions associated with the acquisition of the exclusive right to means of identification are deemed unfair business practices, and other decisions passed by a federal competition body in the sphere of intellectual property;

- disputes in the sphere of copyright and related rights, including those associated with the authorship recognition;

- disputes associated with the infringement of the exclusive rights to the results of intellectual activity and means of identification;

- goodwill protection disputes;

- disputes on challenging the transactions and failure to fulfill obligations under intellectual property contracts and other disputes.