The Russian PTO (Rospatent) has reported that the term to achieve registration of IP rights in Russia during January – May 2019 has decreased in comparison to the first 5 months in 2018, despite the fact that the amount of applications for registration of trademarks, designs and computer programs in 2019 increased. The statistics shows that registration of a trademark took about 6,14 months in 2019 in comparison to 7,85 months in 2018, registration of designs – 4,74 months in 2019 vs. 6,06 in 2018, granting of patents for inventions – 6.63 months in 2019 vs. 8.91 months, granting patent for utility models – 1,66 months in 2019 vs. 3,54 months in 2018, registration of computer programs – 0,49 months in 2019 vs. 1,69 months in 2018.
Alisa Pestryakova