Doctor of Law, Professor, Member of Scientific Council of Law Department of St.-Petersburg State University.
Oleg A. Gorodov was born on January 14, 1951. In 1994 after postgraduate study at the All-Union Institute of the industrial property and innovation (Moscow) he defended the master's thesis “Delayed system of examination of demands for inventions in a modern patent right”. In 2000 after doctoral studies in St.-Petersburg State University he defended the doctor's thesis titled “Intellectual property: legal aspects of commercial use”.
Before his work at St.-Petersburg State University Oleg A. Gorodov was a chief of the chair of legal support of management at St.-Petersburg State Academy of methods and techniques of management (LIMTU).
During the period from 1992 to 1997 he has been the employee of Committee on city property management in St.-Petersburg and the expert on legal issues of the Russian representation of the Institute of Economics of the city (USA).
Oleg A. Gorodov is the author of about 40 works on intellectual property problems and housing law. He is the developer and co-author of more than 30 projects of legal acts concerning privatization, real estate management, housing reform.