The article by Dr. Aleksey Zalesov, advocate and patent attorney, «On the impossibility in Russia to invalidate a patent in addition for medicinal product in case of violation of the law during its extension» has been published in the «Patents and Licenses» magazine as of March 2021.
The author reveals the pressing topic of the imbalance between the society's interests and the interests of owners of the patent monopoly on medicines due to the lack of the possibility to invalidate the extension of a patent related to medicinal product in view of the violation of the law at its extension during the entire validity term of the patent.