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Rospatent Russia (RU) — national
Layer national
Jurisdiction RU (WIPO ST.3: RU)
Issuing body Federal Service for Intellectual Property — Rospatent (Федеральная служба по интеллектуальной собственности), operationally executed by FIPS (Federal Institute of Industrial Property)
Rights administered patent, utility_model, design, trademark, geographical_indication, appellation_of_origin
Working languages Russian (primary, near-exclusive on register records). English (thin EN landing pages on rospatent.gov.ru/en and fips.ru/en; abstracts EN where present)
Connector status register-side: skipped (red_blocked) — politics + economics closure, locked permanent absent a material change in the sanctions environment; statutes-side: queued as a separate RU/CivilCode/Part4 static-law corpus workstream
Last verified 2026-05-18
Manifest entry not listed in coverage/sources.yaml — register-side closure; statutes-side corpus is queued, not shipped

Detail surveys:

Higher layers covering this office transitively:

  • EPO INPADOC (via regional/epo.md) — RU patent biblio + family continues post-2022. RU legal-status events were partial pre-2022 per the INPADOC country-coverage notes; the gap has not closed.
  • WIPO Patentscope — PCT applications filed by RU applicants and PCT national-phase entries designating RU. Russia remains a PCT Contracting State per WIPO directory — RU.
  • WIPO Madrid Monitor / Global Brand Database — Madrid IRs designating RU; RU is a Madrid member and WIPO has not suspended Russia from Madrid as of 2026-05.
  • WIPO Hague — Hague IRs designating RU; RU acceded 2018-02-28.
  • WIPO Lex — Civil Code Part IV (statutes); queued under the planned RU/CivilCode/Part4 corpus.

Rating: 🔴 Red — Blocked

Politics + economics — Decree 299/2022 zeros foreign-patentee compensation; Decree 430; USPTO termination (2022); EU 18th sanctions package (19 Jul 2025) extended No-Russia clauses to IP/know-how/trade secrets; EPO suspension. WIPO has NOT suspended Russia (PCT/Madrid/Hague still routing). Jump to access details → View on the atlas →

§1 Mission

Rospatent is the federal executive body responsible for legal protection of intellectual property in Russia, with FIPS as its operational research and examination institute (rospatent.gov.ru/en, fips.ru/en). It administers RU national patents, utility models, industrial designs, trademarks (incl. service marks, well-known marks, and Madrid extensions to RU), appellations of origin, geographical indications, and computer-program / database / IC-topography registrations. Russia was a top-10 filing jurisdiction by raw volume pre-2022. Operationally, post-2022 RU sits inside an adverse compliance, infrastructure, and reciprocity environment that makes it materially different from every other jurisdiction we cover — the closure rationale here is not "no API," it is "the politics and economics don't justify the engineering investment, even where OFAC GL 31 permits the reading." See §5 for the locked rationale and §3 for the per-surface analysis.

§2 What's unique here

Materially nothing not covered by INPADOC + Patentscope + Madrid + Hague post-2022 at the fidelity our agents need. The genuine RU-only slices are real but narrow and largely de-prioritized by the broader market post-2022:

  • Russian-language full text of RU inventions, utility models, and designs — present on FIPS; rendered EN in INPADOC only at bibliographic-abstract fidelity.
  • RU national trademarks outside Madrid — a real slice; small agent demand post-2022.
  • Decree 299 designation orders — fragmentary primary record on pravo.gov.ru and the official gazette; no canonical Decree-299-affected-patent register exists; building product around a "Decree 299 list" promises something that isn't a machine-readable object (see connectors/rospatent.md §4).
  • Soviet-era / pre-1992 RU patent backfile — present on FIPS; pre-INPADOC-window for some early documents.
  • IP Court of the Russian Federation (Суд по интеллектуальным правам) decisions — ipc.arbitr.ru; Russian-only, anti-bot, no clean API. Distinct from register data; out of scope for this office's register synopsis.

The intersection of "unique to RU" and "high-value-given-current- sanctions-context" is small. INPADOC + Patentscope cover the sanctions-clean residual demand for cross-border prior-art and family lookups.

§3 Programmatic surfaces

Every Rospatent-operated programmatic surface is rated against the zero-infra-proxy constraint plus the politics-economics overlay documented in §5.

FIPS new.fips.ru — public register UI

Field Value
Endpoint new.fips.ru/en/informational-resources/information-retrieval-system/databases.php
Auth Anonymous lookups for low volume; account required for sustained access (Russian-mobile dependency in practice)
Format HTML / JS form posts; no documented REST contract; no OpenAPI
Rate limit Undocumented; intermittent reachability from US/EU egress
ToS posture No English ToS page documents foreign hosted-proxy reuse; Russian-language ToS not re-verified in this wave
Rating (zero-infra proxy) 🔴 Red — HTML scrape; politics-economics overlay
Primary source FIPS EN about page

Live register is HTML-only. Internal AJAX endpoints exist but are undocumented and not contractually stable. Even setting the sanctions overlay aside, this is shaped like INPI Brazil pePI or CNIPA PSS — a no-API surface.

Rospatent open-data / open-API portal

Field Value
Endpoint online.rospatent.gov.ru/open-data/open-api
Auth Gosuslugi-gated registration; Russian-mobile dependency in practice
Format JSON (per Russian-only documentation)
Rate limit Not documented in primary sources reachable from outside the gate
ToS posture Russian-only
Rating (zero-infra proxy) 🔴 Red — Gosuslugi gate blocks foreign-developer onboarding; politics-economics overlay
Primary source Rospatent open-data portal

This is the surface that could be a real REST API if the Gosuslugi gate were navigable from outside Russia. As surveyed 2026-05, the practical foreign-developer onboarding path remains blocked.

Rospatent SearchPlatform — trademarks (launched 22 Jan 2024)

Field Value
Endpoint searchplatform.rospatent.gov.ru/trademarks
Auth None — free, account-less; 24/7
Format HTML SPA; not a documented REST contract
Rate limit Not published
ToS posture Russian-only
Rating (zero-infra proxy) 🔴 Red — UI improvement, not an API surface; politics-economics overlay
Primary source Rospatent EN — search system

The single material 2024 movement on the Russian side — a free, account-less verbal + AI image trademark search. Still UI-only. Does not change the rating; flagged here so future-us doesn't re-discover it as a "new API."

EAPO EAPATIS (Russia-adjacent, separate STATE.yaml row)

Field Value
Endpoint eapo.org; WIPO INSPIRE — EAPATIS
Auth Free guest mode for EA-numbered docs + CISPATENT; paid for full search
Rating (zero-infra proxy) 🔴 Red — rides on RU compliance/economics; USPTO termination explicitly covers EAPO
Primary source EAPO EN

Tracked under RU/EAPO as a separate row; same disposition as Rospatent for the same reasons.

IP Court of the Russian Federation

Field Value
Endpoint ipc.arbitr.ru and the general arbitrazh portal at kad.arbitr.ru
Auth None for the index
Rating 🔴 Red — RU-only, anti-bot, no clean API; commercial RU scrapers are RU-counterparty
Primary source WIPO Magazine — Russian IP Court

Out of scope for this office's register synopsis; documented for strategic memory.

§4 Fees

Policy: link only. Rospatent / FIPS publishes a Russian-Ruble (RUB) tariff covering patents (filing, search, examination, substantive examination, publication, grant, annuities), utility models (filing, examination, annuities), industrial designs (filing, examination, grant, renewals), trademarks (filing, examination, registration, renewals per class), appellations of origin / GIs, plus separate schedules for petitions, opposition proceedings, and Patent Chamber (Палата по патентным спорам) appeals. International-route fees (PCT national-phase entry, Madrid handling) are separate. Statutory basis: Civil Code Part IV (Federal Law 230-FZ, 18 Dec 2006) + the patent-fee Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation.

Notable discount programs (named only — no amounts, no dates):

  • Individual / inventor reductions — natural persons filing in their own name receive reduced patent-fee rates under the patent-fee Decree.
  • SME (малое предприятие) reductions — small-enterprise filings receive reduced rates.
  • Scientific / educational institution reductions — accredited research institutions receive reduced rates on filing and examination.

Reproducing specific RUB amounts is out of scope per the fee-policy section of the template — the official Russian-language schedule is authoritative.

§5 Access via patent-client-agents

What we cover today

Nothing on the RU register side. RU patent biblio + family is accessed transitively via patent_client_agents.epo_ops (INPADOC). Madrid IRs designating RU and Hague IRs designating RU flow through the multilateral systems. PCT applications by RU applicants flow through WIPO Patentscope.

What we should NOT add (register side)

Locked closure — politics + economics. Future-us should not re-evaluate this absent a material shift in the sanctions and reciprocity environment. The closure is not "no API"; it is "the politics and economics don't justify the engineering investment, even where OFAC GL 31 permits the reading." Full load-bearing analysis in the 2026-05-18 wave file §9; headline facts as of 2026-05:

  • Decree 299 (6 Mar 2022, in force) — zeros compensation for unauthorized use of inventions, utility models, and designs held by persons from 48 "unfriendly states" (US, UK, all EU, AU, CA, JP, KR, CH, SG). Status unchanged per yesmypatent — Feb 2025; facially incompatible with TRIPS Art. 31.
  • Decree 430 (20 May 2024) — IP-acquisition gate; one-way valve on RU IP transactions.
  • USPTO termination (22 Mar 2022, unchanged) — GPPH terminated per Federal Register 4 Apr 2022; Rospatent as ISA/IPEA terminated per USPTO update.
  • EU 18th sanctions package (in force 19 Jul 2025) — extends "No-Russia" clause to IP / know-how / trade secrets for CHP Items and brings software into the trade-sanctions perimeter (EU Council press release; EC announcement).
  • OFAC General License 31 (5 May 2022, unchanged through April 2026) — permits IP filing / prosecution / reading with Rospatent and EAPO (OFAC general licenses). GL 31 permits the law; it does not improve the economics.
  • EPO suspension — cooperation with Rospatent + EAPO suspended; unitary-effect requests from RU refused (10 Jul 2024). INPADOC RU biblio continues; legal-status remains partial.
  • WIPO has not suspended Russia from PCT, Madrid, or Hague — RU remains a Contracting Party of all three as of 2026-05 per WIPO directory — RU. Soft positive — RU patent data continues to flow through the multilateral systems into INPADOC and Patentscope.

The asymmetry vs. CNIPA is the calibration: CNIPA is hard but not hostile — closure on no-API grounds (cn-cnipa.md). Rospatent is both hard and hostile — closure on politics+economics on top of no-public-REST.

Specifically do not build: a FIPS scraper or new.fips.ru HTML parser; a Rospatent open-API portal client (Gosuslugi-gated); a searchplatform.rospatent.gov.ru wrapper (UI, not API — the 2024 TM launch doesn't change this); an EAPATIS client (same compliance/economics); an IP Court / arbitrazh scraper; any "Decree 299 affected patent" tracker (no canonical list exists); any Russian commercial aggregator integration (RU counterparty, ruble billing, secondary-sanctions risk).

What we should add — the separable substantive-law workstream

Recommend a RU/CivilCode/Part4 static-law corpus as a separate BACKLOG entry — independent of the register-side closure; same pattern as IN/IPO/Statutes, DE/DPMA/Statutes, FR/Legifrance/IP, TW/MOJ/TradeSecretsAct. Primary source: WIPO Lex 22547 — Civil Code Parts One–Four (consolidated through 2024 amendments); older Part-Four-only consolidations at 22106 / 21655 / 21034 / 12785 for diff history. Federal Law 230-FZ; 326 articles / 9 chapters covering copyright, patents, TMs, GIs, trade secrets, plant varieties, IC topographies — one master statute replaces 7-8 separate RU statute mirrors. Survives the register-side closure because WIPO publishes the EN translation, the corpus is mirrored once into our existing StaticLawCorpus pattern, and runtime never queries a Russian server. Sequence after BR/LPI/Statute in the priority-2 statute sweep; queue in BACKLOG.md.

Next steps

  1. Close the register-side synopsis task in STATE.yaml — rating: red_blocked (unchanged), connector_status: skipped (unchanged), next_action: monitor, last_verified: 2026-05-18.
  2. File the RU/CivilCode/Part4 BACKLOG entry referencing this synopsis and the wave-file §10 recommendation. Same pattern as BR/LPI/Statute.
  3. Monitor quarterly for shifts in the WIPO posture (WIPO Russia office news), OFAC GL 31 amendments (OFAC general licenses), EU subsequent sanctions packages (EU Council Russia sanctions hub), and any Rospatent open-API foreign-developer onboarding announcement (Rospatent EN news).
  4. Watch for Decree 299 designation orders in the official Russian gazette (pravo.gov.ru) — useful portfolio-risk context, but do not promise users a canonical list (one doesn't exist).
  5. Re-evaluate trigger: a material loosening of the sanctions posture and a documented foreign-developer onboarding path on the Rospatent open API. Both required.

§6 Known unknowns

  • Foreign-developer onboarding on the Rospatent open API. Does it ever ship a path that bypasses the Gosuslugi gate? Watch online.rospatent.gov.ru/open-data/open-api.
  • Documented REST beneath searchplatform.rospatent.gov.ru/trademarks. No primary source either way; internal AJAX undocumented.
  • EU 18th-package downstream-use semantics for a US-hosted service serving EU users with RU-register-derived data. No primary source pins the operating-services interpretation; legal review needed before any future hosted-proxy attempt.
  • INPADOC RU legal-status coverage trend post-2022. Pre-2022 gap persists per INPADOC legal-status notes; quantitative trend not pinned.
  • Decree 299 designation orders. Any reliable secondary tracker? No canonical primary register; fragmentary practitioner tracking only.
  • EAPO industrial-design extension (since 2021). Coverage in EPO INPADOC + WIPO Hague Express? Open from the older detail survey; still open.

§7 References

Primary sources only — Rospatent/FIPS own domains, WIPO Lex/WIPO directory, official US/EU government decree archives.

Rospatent + FIPS:

Statutes (Civil Code Part IV — queued workstream):

Sanctions context (load-bearing for the closure):

WIPO multilateral posture (RU not suspended):

EPO RU coverage notes:

Detail survey + wave:

Last updated 2026-05-18.