Boris I. Lifliandchick

Brief biography
Boris I. Lifliandchick holds an engineer degree from the St. Petersburg University of Fine Mechanics and Optics (1963), a patent agent diploma from the Russian Intellectual Property and Innovations Institute (Moscow-St. Petersburg), and a Ph. D. in information science from the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information (Moscow, 1981). As a marketing manager of a high-tec company, he participated in 1995-1996 in St. Petersburg and Italian stages of the TACIS-supported international Work Attachment Programme for SME managers.
Coming to the field of patents in 1966, he worked in patent departments of several industrial firms and research institutions, combining activities as a patent agent with those of a technical translator from English, French and German, as well as a patent and industry analyst in such diverse sectors as lasers, electronics, analytical and medical instrumentation, fuels, environment protection, etc. Later he expanded his professional interests to related fields of assessment and marketing of intellectual property and participated in several international licensing deals. In 1993-1996 he worked as a researcher in IP-related fields at LETI-Lovanium International School of Management (St. Petersburg), acting in parallel as a manager-consultant in marketing and intellectual property issues for several companies.
At ARS-PATENT he is in charge of patent and information searches, analyses and reports, both ordered by local or foreign clients and initiated by ARS-PATENT management. He also participates in ARS-PATENT's activities in the field of intellectual property management, including IP assessment, assignment and/or licensing. His opinion is often sought on complex issues of patentability and adaptation of foreign patent applications to specific Russian patent rules and practice. Mr. Liflyandchick is an author or co-author of about 25 scientific papers (published in Soviet, Russian and U.S. professional editions) on patentability under Soviet and American patent laws, intellectual property evaluation, employment of patents as strategic and business intelligence tools and other IP- and business intelligence-related topics, as well as of numerous published and unpublished industry analyses and forecasts, in Russian and English. He also translated and adapted for Russian readers the book "Le marketing strategique" of J.J. Lambin published in Russia in 1996.

liflyandchik@ars-patent.com