Received the decision to grant a patent for my invention

Today something very important happened to me - I received, through Gosuslugi, the decision from Rospatent (FIPS) to grant a patent for my invention. This is my first patent, so the feelings are especially vivid and the emotions are strong.

I had been waiting for this for more than a year - 14 months, to be exact. I remember the day I filed the application as if it were yesterday. I worked all night: writing the article, drafting the claims, testing hypotheses, and frantically googling what exactly the thing I had arrived at while working on my dissertation was called.

It was my third year of postgraduate study at Timiryazev Academy. I was researching the use of fuzzy logic algorithms in agricultural information systems, solving different kinds of problems - from land reclamation to crop production - when I ran into an unsolved problem in Russia: assessing the breeding value of animals.

After diving into the specifics of dairy farming, I managed to talk to industry representatives and subject-matter specialists. The solution came to me almost immediately and seemed logical and simple, as obvious as two plus two, and for a long time I could not understand why nobody had been doing it this way from the beginning. I sketched the principle on paper, made an example, and realized that it should work. Then I started googling and saw that nobody had arrived at this particular solution before. After that, everything went like clockwork: I quickly ate, sat down at the computer after dinner, and then it was all like a flash of lightning - suddenly it was 5 a.m., and I understood that I had invented something new and that it fit quite well into my still-unfinished dissertation.

Realizing that I had come up with something new, I decided to take a risk and try filing a patent application. Since I was doing all of this for the first time, preparing the application took me about 4 hours. I submitted it a little after 6 a.m., paid the fee, and went to sleep. Then came months of waiting, correspondence with the agency, and refinements to the claims. From time to time, I would find descriptions of similar methods in scientific databases, clutch my heart, and yet, strange as it may sound, nobody had actually done anything quite like this.

While the substantive examination was underway, I managed to build a coding system, register a computer program, and receive a certificate for it. Last fall I got lucky in general: I proposed using my method in the development of a poultry breeding platform. And today, my invention was officially confirmed. My joy knows no bounds. Like this if you are happy too.