Article 1351: Conditions for patentability of a useful model

1. The technical solution relating to the device shall be protected as a useful model; a useful model shall be provided with legal protection if it is new and industrially applicable. The model is new if the body of its essential characteristics is not known from the technical level. All applications for a patent for an invention, a useful model or an industrial sample that is included in the technology level also (subject to earlier priority) In the Russian Federation, the documents of which are submitted by other persons and are available to any person in accordance with article 138, paragraphs 2 and 4, of the present Code, article 1394, paragraph 2 3. Disclosure of information relating to the useful model, the author of the useful model, the applicant, or any direct or indirect receipt of information from them. This information by the person (including through the display of the useful model at the exhibition) has thus become publicly available, is not a pre-eminence. A useful patent recognition model, provided that a patent application for a useful model is submitted to the federal intellectual property authority The burden of proving that the circumstances in which disclosure did not prevent recognition of the patentability of a useful model 4. A useful model is industrially applicable if it can be used in industry, agriculture, health care, other sectors of the economy, or 5. The objects referred to in article 1350, paragraph 5, of the present Code are not useful models. 6. Legal protection is not provided as a cover for a patent application for a useful model. 6 of article 1350 of the present Code.