Editing Software patent (section)

===Russian Federation===
In the [[Russian Federation]] according to article #1350 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation the following do not qualify as inventions:

# discoveries;
# scientific theories and mathematical methods;
# solutions concerning only the appearance of products and aimed at meeting the aesthetic needs;
# the rules and methods of games, intellectual or economic activities;
# computer programs; 
# solutions consisting only in the presentation of information.

However, the article provides for that the patentability of these objects is excluded only in the case when the application for the grant of a patent for an invention concerns these objects ''as such''.