A new interview has been published in the Research City section of the SSU web-site. It was given by the Head of the SSU Patent Services Centre Natalia Romanova, the Patent Attorney of the Russian Federation and Eurasia, a member of the Chamber of Patent Attorneys of the Russian Federation and the St. Petersburg Board of Patent Attorneys, a member of Rospatent Appeal Commission, and a member of the Public Council at the Office of the Saratov Antimonopoly Service of Russia.

Natalia Romanova commented on the patenting objects, the duties of a patent attorney, and the patenting procedure. She highlighted the differences between utility inventions, utility models, and industrial designs. In addition, Natalia Romanova gave examples of inventions recently created by SSU researchers.

‘Sometimes we put the authors’ inventions into perspective. Despite the fact that in the morning they may come to us with a medicine application, in the afternoon, – with a physics app, and, in the evening, they will invent a bicycle, patent attorneys always know what questions to ask in order to get the necessary information from the author and correctly define the advantages of the development,’ she said.

You can read the full interview here.