Soviet patents

From SHOT 2021 conference, Johanna Dahlin (Linköping University): Translating the Inventor: Forced labour as Intellectual Property

She's researching Soviet patents. One early transition was from the Russian empire patents to "inventor's certificates" which seem to look like patents, and look like German patent specifications (based on the 1921 example) but the intellectual property belongs to the government. And they went back and forth, sometimes having a western-style patent system in order to do business with the West.

For more, see:

https://liu.se/en/employee/johla90

https://liu.se/en/research/passim

More notes:

• 1924-09-15 is given on several patents as the date from which they take effect, perhaps from which their duration extends. While this construction is similar the one given by Austria, which we interpret as grant date, here, because the date remains constant, we may be dealing with more of a general legal phenomenon.

Patents filed in Soviet Union

• Patent SU-1913-455 (English title: Snow skis for aircraft, Inventors: Николай Родионович Лобанов • Nikolai Rodionovich Lobanov)
• Patent SU-1917-2277 (English title: Self-aligning airplane ski, Inventors: Николай Родионович Лобанов • Nikolai Rodionovich Lobanov)
• Patent SU-1919-442 (English title: Orneto-helicopter, Inventors: D. N. Hamburg • D. N. Gamborg)
• Patent SU-1916-4563 (English title: Method of producing cellulose acetate for airplanes and other industrial purposes)
• Patent SU-1915-34644 (English title: Telemechanical device for controlling a flying machine, Inventors: K. A. Borodachenko)