Today, the Kuzbass Research and Development Center took part in a meeting of the Rospatent board in Moscow

26/02/2021

The meeting was devoted to summarizing the results of the implementation of the Federal Service for Intellectual Property Activity Plan in 2020, as well as the implementation of the Public Declaration of Goals and Objectives of the Federal Service for Intellectual Property based on the results of the past year. The report was presented by the head of the Department Grigory Ivlev, head of Rospatent, Chairman of the board.

In addition, the board members discussed the draft Public declaration of goals and objectives of the Federal Service for Intellectual Property for 2021.

The draft document includes 6 main goals:

1. Creating a comfortable information environment in the field of intellectual property( IP);

2. Development of modern legal mechanisms aimed at stimulating inventive activity and increasing the level of protection of IP rights;

3. Development of tools for improving the effectiveness of budgetary research, development and technological work in terms of IP results;

4. Building an IP infrastructure by developing human resources and research activities;

5. Development of international cooperation in the field of IP;

6. Improving the patent literacy of the population in the field of IP protection, strengthening the role and significance of IP.

Most of these tasks at the regional level have already been taken over by the Patent Office of the Autonomous Non-Profit Organization "Scientific and Educational Center "Kuzbass", established in April 2020. For example, in order to achieve the goal of improving the patent literacy of the population in the field of intellectual property protection, the Technology and Innovation Support Center (TIC) of the 1st level, created on the basis of the Patent Office of the REC "Kuzbass", will work. Its opening took place two weeks ago, on February 11, as part of the scientific and practical forum "Digital Transformation of the Kuzbass Economy".