Copyright holders were allowed not to disclose their data in Rospatent records

Holders of rights to intellectual property objects and parties to an agreement on the alienation of rights to such objects also have the opportunity to hide information about themselves.

From the publication in the newsletter, Rospatent generates all the main registrations of intellectual property rights: trademarks, inventions and others.

The author of the resolution was the Ministry of Economy. The ministry and Rospatent did not explain to Kommersant why the innovation was necessary.

Expert opinion

The measure is necessary to protect applicants from sanctions, Alina Akinshina, general director of the Online Patent company, told Kommersant. According to her, the data of potentially sanctioned companies can be “hidden” in the registry, “as it was previously organized in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities.”

At the same time, hiding information about applicants and copyright holders complicates the quick establishment of facts about the submission of applications and ownership of assets, Akinshina clarified.

It is not clear from the text of the resolution which data will not be published: the applicant’s address or his name (for example, the full name in the case of an individual), said Eldar Guliyev, head of the law’s Intellectual Property practice. KIAP. office.