Dear customers!
Our company has conducted an analytical survey among Russian companies entitled “Immediacy of patenting in the European Union”. Judging by statistics provided by World Intellectual Property Organization, Russia is ranked among other countries with about 38 thousand patent applications. Comparing these numbers to first-placed China’s 1540 thousand applications, the attitude of Russian business to patent services becomes obvious.
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|
Country |
Number of patent applications |
|
1 |
China |
1 540 000 |
|
2 |
USA |
597 000 |
|
3 |
Japan |
313 000 |
|
4 |
South Korea |
210 000 |
|
5 |
European Union |
174 000 |
|
6 |
Germany |
68 000 |
|
7 |
India |
50 000 |
|
8 |
Russia |
38 000 |
|
9 |
Canada |
36 000 |
|
10 |
Australia |
30 000 |
Over 50 companies representing Russia’s medium and big business took part in the survey.
The survey’s key questions were:
- Why don’t you patent your products and trademark?
- What do you know about patent services?
- What is the reason for your company developing international trade without patenting the trademark and products?
- Do you understand the budget of patent services?
- Do you figure out the risks connected with potential legal proceedings due to the absence of registered patent rights on your trademark and your products?
The answers received to the questions above make it clear that the patent safety factor is mostly ignored.
The patent safety will be taken into account by Russian companies only after the critical mass of lawsuits on trademark and industrial design patent rights will be accumulated.
Let us take a look on this summer’s case study.
