4. The Registration of an Invention, Utility Model
and Industrial Design, and the Issuance of a Patent

Article 1393. The Procedure for the State Registration of an Invention, Utility Model and Industrial Design, and the Issuance of a Patent

1. On the basis of a decision on issuing a patent for an invention, utility model or industrial design the federal executive governmental body charged with intellectual property matters shall enter the invention, utility model or industrial design to the relevant state register, i.e. the State Register of Inventions of the Russian Federation, the State Register of Utility Models of the Russian Federation and the State Register of Industrial Designs of the Russian Federation, and it shall issue a patent for the invention, utility model or industrial design. If a patent has been sought for the names of several persons, one patent shall be issued thereto.

2. The state registration of an invention, utility model or industrial design, and the issuance of a patent shall be completed if the relevant patent duty has been paid. If the applicant has not filed a document in the established procedure confirming that the patent duty had been paid the invention, utility model or industrial design shall not be registered, and the relevant application shall be deemed withdrawn.

3. The form of a patent for an invention, utility model or industrial design, and the composition of the details available therein shall be established by the federal executive governmental body charged with normative legal regulation in the area of intellectual property. 4. The federal executive governmental body charged with intellectual property matters shall enter corrections of obvious and technical errors in a patent issued for invention, utility model or industrial design and/or in the relevant state register. 5. The federal executive governmental body charged with intellectual property matters shall publish information in the gazette about any amendments made to entries in the state registers.

Article 1394. The Publication of Information on the Issuance of a Patent for an Invention, Utility Model or Industrial Design

1. The federal executive governmental body charged with intellectual property matters shall publish information in the gazette on the issuance of a patent for an invention, utility model or industrial design, including the name of the author (unless the author has refused to be mentioned as such), the name of the holder of the patent, the title and invention or utility model claim or a list of the significant features of an industrial design and an image thereof. The composition of the details to be published shall be defined by the federal executive governmental body charged with normative legal regulation in the area of intellectual property.

2. After information has been published according to the present article about the issuance of the patent for the invention, utility model or industrial design any person is entitled to read the documents of the application and the report on information retrieval. The procedure for reading the documents of the application and the report on information retrieval shall be established by the federal executive governmental body charged with normative legal regulation in the area of intellectual property.