Agency Name: | Federal Service for Intellectual Property |
Native Name: | Федеральная служба по интеллектуальной собственности (Роспатент) |
Seal: | Emblem of the Federal Service for Intellectual Property of Russia.svg |
Chief1 Name: | Grigory Ivliyev[1] |
Parent Agency: | Ministry of Economic Development |
Headquarters: | Berezhkovskaya Naberezhnaya, 30/1, Moscow, Russia |
The Federal Service for Intellectual Property[2] (commonly known as Rospatent; Russian: Федеральная служба по интеллектуальной собственности (Роспатент)|Federalnaya sluzhba po intellektualnoi sobstvennosti) is a Russian governmental agency in charge of intellectual property. Its former name was "Federal Service for Intellectual Property, Patents and Trademarks (Rospatent)".[3]
In the former Soviet Union, Goskomizobretenie (Russian: Госкомизобретений), which stood for Gosudarstvennyi komitet po delam izobretenie i otkrytii, was the State Committee for Inventions and Discoveries. It maintained a registry of inventions and discoveries and gave out authors certificates and patents.
, 476,905 national trademarks and 220,513 international trademarks were registered at the Russian Federal Service for Intellectual Property, and it issued 266,104 patents.[4]