Russian patent law: Natural selection

The concept of “selection invention”, which in some jurisdictions defines a certain special kind of invention, does not exist in Russian patent legislation, but there is an opinion that it may refer to an independent type of invention. This opinion is based on the term appearing for the first time (1991) in the Russian regulations for preparing, filing and prosecuting applications for inventions:

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