Editing Mosin–Nagant (section)

===Nagant's legal dispute===
{{anchor|legaldispute}}Despite the failure of Nagant's rifle, he filed a patent suit, claiming he was entitled to the sum the winner was to receive. It appeared that Nagant was the first to apply for the international patent protection over the interrupter, although he borrowed it from Mosin's design initially.{{cn|date=February 2023}} Mosin could not apply for a patent since he was an officer of the Russian army, and the design of the rifle was owned by the Government and had the status of a military secret.

A scandal was about to burst out, with Nagant threatening he would not participate in trials held in Russia ever again and some officials proposing to expel Nagant from any further trials, as he borrowed the design of the interrupter after it was covered by the secrecy status given in Russia of that time to military inventions and therefore violated Russian law. Taking into consideration that Nagant was one of the few producers not engaged by competitive governments and generally eager to cooperate and share experience and technology, the Commission paid him a sum of 200,000 Russian rubles, equal to the premium that Mosin received as the winner. The rifle did not receive the name of Mosin, because of the personal decision taken by [[Alexander III of Russia|Tsar Alexander III]], which was made based on the opinion of the Defence Minister [[Pyotr Vannovskiy]]: {{clarify|text=there are parts in this newly created design, invented by Colonel Rogovtzev, by Lt.-General Chagin's Commission, Captain Mosin and small-arms manufacturer Nagant, therefore it is only fair to call it the ''Russian 3-line rifle M1891''.<ref name=eren20>{{harvnb|Erenfeicht|Konstankiewicz|2016|p=20}}</ref>|reason= is this a direct quote? If so, it needs quotation marks. If not, it needs to be rewritten.|date=November 2022}}
The Tsar himself dashed the word "Russian" from this document with his own hand.<ref name=eren20/> The decision to pay off Nagant proved wise, as he remained the major contractor for the Russian Government, and the [[Nagant M1895]] revolver was subsequently adopted by the Russian army as its main sidearm.

However, in spite of the payment, Nagant attempted to use the situation for publicity, resulting in the name "Mosin–Nagant" appearing in the Western press.<ref name=eren20/>

From a technical point of view the rifle that came to be called "Mosin–Nagant" is the design proposed by Mosin as further amended by Mosin with some details borrowed from Nagant's design. Only since 1924 the rifle was officially named "Mosin's rifle" in the USSR, although some variants were still known only by their year of origin.<ref name=eren20/>