Patent activity fluctuations in the Russian Federation from the retrospective and the current state

: The chosen topic owes its relevance to the chief role of Rospatent as a state institution in shaping the IP market with regard to tasks set by the Russian President Vladimir Putin to ensure technological sovereignty and gain technological edge. The purpose of this research was to examine main indicators of the country’s patent activity (PA) in retrospect and at present. The information was derived from the VNIIPI of the USSR State Committee for Inventions, Rospatent annual reports, FIPS and Rosstat databases. The hypothesis is that PA-fluctuations in Russia reflected trends of the inner circuit state macroeconomics, which in turn were affected by the outer circuit geopolitics and the global economy. To assess the hypothesis methods of economic & statistical analysis as well as graphical modeling were applied. The article presents the results of PA analysis of the post-Soviet time (1992–2024), and the comparative analysis of average annual growth rates in late Soviet and post-Soviet periods. It deals with the dynamics of filing applications for inventions, utility models, industrial designs and that of granting patents for the above objects. It also covers relative PA-indicators: coefficient of inventive activity, self-sufficiency ratio and technological dependence ratio. As a key indicator, PA was closely linked to the Russian economy and external factors. The research revealed that despite numerous sanctions coupled with the escape of Western companies from the Russian market the initial decline in patenting was subsequently almost offset by the activity of domestic inventors and the growth of filing by Russian applicants.

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