About Laboratory

History of the Institute’s Patent Service The Patent Service was created at the Institute of Chemistry in 1966 and became the first patent department at the Ural Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences. That year the first application on behalf of the Institute was executed. The authors of inventions often were S.S. Spasskii, А.I. Tarasov, and B.N. Bamburov. In 1966, 10 applications were filed to the Invention and Discovery Committee and 10 favorable decisions of granting inventors certificates were received. In 1974, the Patent Service was assigned with a task to patent the scientific and technical developments of the Institute abroad with the aim of selling licenses. Over a short period (1976-1978), CzSSR, USA, England, FRG, Austria, and Japan patents were taken out for the hard alloy based on titanium carbonitride. In 1982, the Department for patenting, licensing, inventions, and innovations became an independent scientific division. Lately, special attention was given to license study of intellectual property, which made it possible to commercialize some scientific developments covered earlier by patents of the Russian Federation. Annually, from 10 to 12 applications are filed, and 45 RF patens are kept valid presently in the Institute. The main areas of focus of the Patent Service: - information support of research in order to evaluate the technical level of developments, including search and analysis of patent, scientific, and technical information, which allow one to determine their patent novelty and competitive advantage; - protection of scientific and technical products in accordance with patent and civil law rules; - publicity of scientific and technical developments of the Institute (participation in exhibitions, preparation of advertisements, booklets, and other promotional materials); - preliminary technical and economic calculations aimed at evaluating the competitive advantage of scientific developments and subsequent commercialization of the Institute’s intellectual property objects.