In the Soviet Union time, from 1941 up until 1991, patent
protection was not granted to chemical substances – they
could be protected only indirectly by a method of their
manufacturing. The main document that regulated in those years for
the protection of rights for inventions was the Statute on
Inventions and Technical Innovations. In its Par.2, the Statute
stated that author's certificates and patents could not be
granted for solutions obtained by a chemical process, and that such
solutions could be protected by new methods of their manufacturing.
The same Statute allowed for medicals, food and flavoring
substances obtained in a non-chemical way, granting author's
certificates only and mentioning patent protection as available for
methods of their manufacturing. Author's certificates in that
period are the main form of protective document declaring the
authorship of invention, and allow the inventor to get remuneration
for use of the invention with exclusive right for
