The world hinges on patents. A patent puts the owner on the
forefront of technological edge. It provides unmatched advantages
for the patentee, be it legal monopoly of use or prohibitive
function of the patent. Criteria for a patentable invention in
Russia are not unusual. These are industrial applicability, novelty
and inventive step. It would seem that anything may be patented but
anything will not go. There are subject matters which are not
patentable, such as discoveries, scientific theories and
mathematical methods, business methods, solutions contrary to
public interest, humanity and morals, methods for human cloning,
for modifying the genetic integrity of cells and some other
solutions which the human mind may beget. Inventions concerning
software are not patentable either, though to an extent because
computer-related inventions involving hardware are patentable.
Animal and plant varieties are patentable but not as inventions.
Patents for this subject matter are
