The Department of Intellectual Property, headed by the Head of the Department, carries out its activities in the following areas:
- consultations on determining the rights to industrial property;
- providing assistance in the preparation of materials for registration of rights to industrial property (inventions, utility models, industrial designs, trademarks);
- patent information search for materials proposed for patenting;
- preparation, submission in the prescribed manner of applications for registration of industrial property;
- representation of the university's interests in industrial property issues in relations with individuals and legal entities, patent bodies and departments both in Ukraine and abroad;
- preparation of documents for protection of industrial property of the university from encroachments of third parties, including protection against unfair competition;
- advertising of industrial property objects and publication of intellectual property objects created by university scientists;
- execution of contracts for the creation of scientific and technical products or scientific and technical services;
- execution of exclusive / non-exclusive license agreements for the transfer of the right to use intellectual property objects and agreements on assignment of the right to them;
- provision of other services within its competence.
The department offers the following types of paid services:
- preparation and submission of an application for an invention;
- preparation and submission of an application for a utility model;
- preparation and submission of an application for an industrial design;
- preparation and submission of an application for a mark for goods and services;
- statement of convention priority;
- making changes and clarifications to the application materials at the initiative of the applicant;
- filing an application for a qualification examination of an application for an invention;
- preparation of a response to the examination request;
- preparation of a reasoned response to a previous decision to refuse;
- conducting an accelerated examination of the mark for goods and services;
- preparation of a reasoned response to the notice of possible refusal to register the mark;
- obtaining a patent;
- obtaining a certificate of Ukraine for a mark for goods and services;
- making changes regarding the patent in the State Register;
- making changes regarding the registration of the mark for goods and services in the State Register;
- restoration of missed procedural deadlines;
- filing an application for examination of a patented invention (utility model) for compliance with the criteria of patentability;
- maintaining the patent in force annually;
- extension of the patent;
- extension of the certificate for a mark for goods and services;
- filing an objection to the decision of the examination;
- preparation of a license agreement or an agreement on assignment of rights;
- registration of a license agreement or an agreement on assignment of rights;
- making changes to the information contained in the State Register on the issuance of a license for each industrial design provided for in the contract;
- making changes to the information contained in the State Register on the granting of a license in respect of each mark for goods and services provided for in the agreement;
- conducting a patent information search for one group of IPC, to identify analogues of the invention (utility model);
- conducting a patent information search to identify patents that interfere with the use of the product;
- preliminary search for identical or similar to the degree of mixing of characters in the database of Ukrpatent;
- translation from Russian into Ukrainian and vice versa;
- preparation of documents to protect industrial property from encroachment by third parties, including protection against unfair competition.