RosPatent as the Receiving Office

The work of RosPatent as the Receiving Office is determined by the provisions of the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) and the Regulations under the PCT. Under the PCT Articles 2(xv), 10 and Rule 19 of the Regulations under the PCT RosPatent as the Receiving Office receives the international applications from persons who are the residents or have their domicile in the territory of the Russian Federation. The applications are received in Russian and English.
The Federal Service for Intellectual Property, Patents and Trademarks and the European Patent Office are the competent International Searching Authorities with respect to applications filed with RosPatent as the Receiving Office. In 59 international applications the European Patent Office was selected as the International Searching Authority; in the overwhelming majority of the cases the applicants preferred to select RosPatent as the International Searching Authority.
Since January 1, 1999 RosPatent as the Receiving Office receives international applications filed using the PCT¬-SAFE software. In 2008 RosPatent received 114 such applications, i.e. 14 % of the total number of applications filed.
In addition, under the Article 15(1)(ii) of the Eurasian Patent Convention RosPatent acts as the Receiving Office for the Russian applicants filing the Eurasian applications. The number of the Eurasian applications filed in 2008 by the Russian applicants was 141.
In accordance with the requirements of the PCT documents to implementation of the quality management of carrying out the International Search and the International Preliminary Examination by the competent authorities, RosPatent prepared and submitted to the International Bureau of WIPO an Annual Report of RosPatent on Quality Management System for 2008.
To organize the work on preparation of annual reports on quality management system to be submitted to the International Bureau of WIPO a document regulating an order of preparation of annual reports on quality management system was elaborated and implemented. The document determines a list of data to be included into the report, departments of the Federal Institute of Industrial Property (FGU FIPS) responsible for its preparation, and also cooperation among the departments in the course of preparation of the report, procedure and terms of submission of necessary information.

Mr. Samir Rahman
On & in behalf of
Patent and Law firm ‘IPPro’