Irina Kochneva

Leading Specialist, Patent Department
Area of expertise
- Legal protection of inventions and utility models of Russian and foreign clients, with a focus on chemistry, biochemistry, pharmacy practice, medicine, biology;
- Patent research, including patentability search, prior art, freedom-to-operate, trends in technology development, engineering level of technology items, etc.;
- Examination of intellectual property, legal opinions.
Services
Education
- Master’s degree, Chemical Technology; Lomonosov Institute of Fine Chemical Technologies (2008-2014),
- Ph.D. in Chemistry (2018) (inorganic chemistry); Kurnakov Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2014-2018);
- Law, Master’s degree; Russian State Academy of Intellectual Property (2019-2022);
- Biotechnology Engineer; Information and Communication Technologies Plus LLC (2023).
Experience
In YUS since 2025. Before that long time worked as an examiner of the Russian PTO, and then as a leading specialist of the patent department in a big Russian pharma company.
Languages
Russian, English.