Andrey ERMOLINSKY

Andrey is the first partner and the Director of the Agency.

He was born in Sverdlovsk (Russia) in 1964. In 1981 he was secondary educated at Special Sports School where he also became the Master of Sports of USSR on figure skating. In 1986 Andrey was graduated in Sverdlovsk Engineering-Pedagogical Institute - he has a diploma with honors as a machinery engineer. During studying he worked at the same time as the Chairman of the Trade-Union Committee of Students of the Institute, and then he worked in the Institute as an assistant of professors with teaching a subject "Theoretical and Applied Mechanics". After the Soviet Army he worked in the Far East Technological Institute (Vladivostok, Russia) on positions of an assistant of professors, a senior teacher, a deputy of a dean, a chief of a research department. In that Institute he taught the following subjects: "Theoretical and Applied Mechanics", "Theory of Machines and Mechanisms", "Details of Machines", "Interchangeability", "Resistance of Materials". At the same time Andrey carried out scientific researches in the field of dynamics of air micro-turbines, and results of the researches were published in more than 20 articles. Several USSR Certificates for inventions was granted to Andrey as an inventor.

In 1995 Andrey together with his former student Igor Chetverikov have established the Patent Agency. In 1997 he received the grant from the USA Eurasia Foundation and published "Franchising Guide" for Russian businessmen. In 1998 Andrey has a training in Seed & Barry, LLP (Seattle, WA, U.S.A.). In 1999 he was registered by the RU PTO as a Russian patent attorney "without limitations" of areas of practice (reg. No. 626). In 2000 he was registered by the Eurasian Patent Office as a Eurasian patent attorney (reg. No. 157).

He is a member of Russian Patent Attorneys Association since 2000. He has more than 30 articles published in Russian magazines and newspapers about IP protection in Russia and abroad including a journal "Intellectual Property" published by the RU PTO.

Andrey's main practice is focused as follows: PCT cases on international and national/regional phases, representing foreign clients before the RU PTO and/or Eurasian Patent Office, international trademarks registrations, working with foreign patent and trademarks attorneys.

Igor CHETVERIKOV

Igor is the second partner and the Deputy Director of the Agency.

He was born in Vladivostok (Russia) in 1967. After Soviet Army Igor was graduated in 1992 - he has a diploma of Far East Technological Institute (Vladivostok) as a mechanics engineer. Before the Agency he worked in the Scientific and Technical Cooperative "Argus" (Vladivostok) as an engineer.

In 1995 Igor together with his former teacher Andrey Ermolinsky have established the Agency. In 1997 Igor was post-graduated as an appraiser of intellectual property in the Russian Institute of Intellectual Property (Moscow) of the RU PTO. Since 1997 he is a member of the Russian Branch of "Society of appraisers of the Intellectual Property". In 1999 he was registered by the RU PTO as a Russian patent attorney for trademarks (reg. No. 663). In 2002 he was re-registered as a Russian patent attorney "without limitations" of areas of practice with the same reg. number. He has about 10 articles published in local magazines and newspapers about IP protection in Russia.

Igor's main practice is focused as follows: representing clients before RU PTO with patent application in mechanics, design applications, trademark applications, estimation of IP subjects.