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.