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Date of Filing the Patent Application


The filing date of the patent application is the date on which the application containing the request for granting a patent, description of the invention and drawings (if referred to in the description) is received by the federal executive authority for intellectual property; if the aforementioned documents are not submitted simultaneously, it is the date of receipt of the last document1.

The filing date of the patent application is deemed to be the date on which the application containing the request for granting a patent, description and drawings (if referred to in the description) is received by the federal executive authority for intellectual property, or the date of receipt of the last document if the aforementioned documents are not submitted simultaneously2.

  1. Civil Code of the Russian Federation. Part Four dated 18.12.2006, as amended on 2019-06-27, Article 1375, paragraph 3 // RSZ RF. 2006. No. 52. Page 5496. ↩

  2. Federal Law No. 22-FZ of February 7, 2003, "On Amending and Supplementing the Patent Law of the Russian Federation," as amended on February 7, 2003, Article 2, paragraph 17 // RSZ RF. 2003. No. 6. Article 505. ↩

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