Protecting your intellectual property

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About us

ERFIS is a cohesive team consisting of scientists, lawyers in the field of patent law, patent experts, patent attorneys and computer specialists who treat each client, their ideas and solutions, with care at a high professional level.

Our company’s specialists:

  • have experience in various economy sectors and provide highly qualified services to ensure legal protection and defense of rights to inventions, utility models, industrial designs, trademarks, computer programs;
  • conduct patent search and patent research;
  • represent clients’ interests in Patent Offices, courts;
  • draft agreements on the alienation of exclusive rights and licensing agreements;
  • advise on issues about struggling unfair competition and counterfeit products.

We focus on building long-term and strong relationships with our clients. Therefore, the basis of our company’s policy features:

  • solving problems set by the client with respect to specific character of client’s business;
  • legal support at all stages in order to reduce risks and achieve a successful outcome.

ERFIS guarantees:

  • absolute confidentiality;
  • high level of expertise at all stages of patenting or trademark registration;
  • reliability and efficiency in client relations;
  • legal protection of intellectual property rights holders in all countries.

Employees of our company are members of international associations (AIPPI, INTA and others), participate in international conferences and seminars. That allows us to advance, update existing knowledge, give lectures to popularize knowledge about the protection of intellectual property rights and make publications in journals.

Services

Trademark
  • Trademark search a nd Clearance Opinion;
  • U.S. Trademark Application or Service Mark Application;
  • Preparing and filing a Response to Office Action.
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Patent
  • Patentability Search and evaluation;
  • Preparing / Filing of Application;
  • Filing of Assignment/Change of Name/Address;
  • Filing U.S. National Stage Application from a PCT or foreign application.
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Design
  • Patentability Search and evaluation;
  • Preparing / Filing of Application;
  • Preparing / Filing a Response to an Office Action.
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Unique offers for each type of business

IT-Startup
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Pharmaceutical business
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Industrial business
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For entrepreneurs
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Innovative enterprise
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Marketplace business
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IT-Startup

Every IT startup needs legal protection of intellectual property.
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  • trademark registration;
  • computer program registration in the US Library of Congress;
  • representing algorithm for a computer program as a method to be patented as an invention;
  • patenting an interface as an industrial design.
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Pharmaceutical business

Erfis company has been providing qualified services to pharmaceutical companies since 2016. Over the years, we have created a package deal for the pharmaceutical business:

  • trademark verification;
  • trademark registration;
  • freedom-to-operate research regarding INN;
  • patenting an invention.
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Industrial business

  • trademark registration;
  • freedom-to-operate research;
  • patenting an invention;
  • patenting a utility model;
  • patenting an industrial design.
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Innovative enterprise

Erfis company provides full support to innovative enterprises.

  • trademark registration;
  • patent search to determine prior art;
  • freedom-to-operate research;
  • patenting an invention;
  • patenting an industrial design.
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Marketplace business

When business enters marketplaces, one should take care of the following:

  • trademark verification;
  • trademark registration;
  • alienation of exclusive right to trademark (purchase of a trademark);
  • freedom-to-operate research;
  • patenting a utility model.
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For entrepreneurs

Erfis company has been operating since 2016 and during this time has created a package deal that is suitable for any entrepreneur.

  • trademark verification;
  • trademark registration;
  • freedom-to-operate research.
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Team

ILIA ISHINOV
Partner
VADIM KOTELNIKOV
Director, Partner
ASTAFEV IURII
Vice President of Sales, Partner
KATE KONOVALOVA
Client Consulting Lead, Trademarks & Industrial Designs Department
DMITRY PETROV
Client Consulting Lead, Patent Department
ILIA ISHINOV
Partner
VADIM KOTELNIKOV
Director, Partner
ASTAFEV IURII
Vice President of Sales, Partner
KATE KONOVALOVA
Client Consulting Lead, Trademarks & Industrial Designs Department
DMITRY PETROV
Client Consulting Lead, Patent Department

Participation in professional organizations

The Regional Public Association "St.Petersburg Collegium of Patent attorneys"
AIPPI - International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property