The reflection of the struggle of Russian companies for promising markets in the patent statistics

Abstract

The article analyzes data from the annual report of the European patent agency, reflecting the struggle of industrialized countries for the EU market in the projection of the patent landscape of 2016. It presents the results of a patent analysis, which aims to identify residents of the Russian Federation, who received a maximum number of patents flown outside of the country. It shows that the majority of patent documents with the Russian priority is claimed in a foreign patent office on behalf of subsidiaries of multinational and foreign companies (31.3% and 24,8% respectively), the share of domestic companies of all forms of ownership account for less than 15%. The structure of patent rights holders with the Russian priority demonstrates a significant number of individual applicants who can not become the primary agents to capture the niches of the global market and cannot compete with foreign industrial giants.