Integration of the USSR into the International Patent-Licensing System in the Context of International Technological Cooperation (1950s – early 1970s)

Zavodyuk, Svetlana; Zanin, Sergey

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Integration of the USSR into the International Patent-Licensing System in the Context of International Technological Cooperation (1950s – early 1970s)

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S013038640022379-4-1

DOI

10.31857/S013038640022379-4

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Article

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Authors

Svetlana Zavodyuk

Affiliation: Samara State Medical University
Address: Russian Federation, Samara

Sergey Zanin

Affiliation: Samara State Medical University
Address: Russian Federation, Samara

Journal name

Novaia i noveishaia istoriia

Edition

Issue 2

Pages

122-133

Abstract

In the 1950s, as the world entered an era of scientific and technological revolution, the leadership of the Soviet Union chose a new economic course based on scientific knowledge, which could enable the USSR to secure technological leadership, a competitive advantage over Western countries and closer integration with the CMEA. A key indicator of the success of this policy has been the country’s incorporation into the evolving system of international patenting and licence selling. In previous years, these processes had not been covered in historical academic publications. The purpose of this study is to explore the Soviet Union's entry into the international patent licensing system and related organizational, legislative and information measures drawing on the archival documents, including the All-Union Research Institute for State Patent Examination (VNIIGPE), introduced into the academic circuit for the first time, as well as on the published reports of the 1965 meeting of the Committee of Experts on Author's Certificates and the Washington Conference of 1970. The author demonstrates that in the 1950s and 1960s the USSR made the transition from a model of institutional and legal incorporation into international patent-licensing activity to an integration model based on patent cooperation and standardisation, in accordance with international norms. The reason for the slow development of technological cooperation, which hindered the achievement of ambitious goals, was the inertia and internal costs of the Soviet economic and administrative system, which fully affected the development of both models. Ultimately, changes in the international environment and the slowdown of economic development in the USSR in the early 1970s prevented the country from gaining even modest benefits from integration.

Keywords

economy, USSR, international technological cooperation, patenting, patents, sale of licences, international patent law, Soviet invention law

Acknowledgment

RFBR Grant 21-09-43084 “The Golden twentieth Anniversary of Soviet Science: the USSR and International Technology Transfer in the 1950s and 1960s”.

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09.02.2023

Publication date

30.04.2023

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32718

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GOST	Zavodyuk S., Zanin S. Integration of the USSR into the International Patent-Licensing System in the Context of International Technological Cooperation (1950s – early 1970s) // Novaia i noveishaia istoriia – 2023. – Issue 2 C. 122-133 [Electronic resource]. URL: https://nni.jes.su/S013038640022379-4-1 (circulation date: 21.05.2024). DOI: 10.31857/S013038640022379-4
MLA	Zavodyuk, Svetlana, Zanin, Sergey "Integration of the USSR into the International Patent-Licensing System in the Context of International Technological Cooperation (1950s – early 1970s)." Novaia i noveishaia istoriia 2 (2023):122-133. DOI: 10.31857/S013038640022379-4
APA	Zavodyuk S., Zanin S. (2023). Integration of the USSR into the International Patent-Licensing System in the Context of International Technological Cooperation (1950s – early 1970s). Novaia i noveishaia istoriia (2), pp.122-133 DOI: 10.31857/S013038640022379-4

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