Eurasian Patents, Designs and Trademarks, a regional Industrial Property protection system that goes beyond Russia.
The Eurasian Patent Organization is an international organization created in 1995 that manages through the Eurasian Patent Office (EAPO) the protection of inventions and industrial designs for several of the Contracting States of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) through the Eurasian patent. We talked about its origins in previous entries of the blog.
Patentes euroasiáticas
It is a regional patent for the protection of inventions that allows unifying the application, examination and granting process of a patent for all the member States of the Eurasian Patent Organization. At the moment it is made up of 8 states, after the departure of Moldova in 2011.
The current member states are: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus,Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Russia.
Eurasian designs
From June 1st, 2021 the Eurasian Patent Office has started processing industrial design applications. In this way, it is possible to obtain protection for a design simultaneously for several of the Member States.
At this time these countries are: Azerbaijan, Armenia, Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan. In the coming months the entry into force of the agreement with Belarus to join this design granting system is expected.
Eurasian trademarks: a system about to come into force
The Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) Trademark Treaty introduces a new regional system for the protection of trademarks and appellations of origin. It was signed in February 2020 by five member states: Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Russia. Through the Treaty, a unified system for filing and registering trademarks and appellations of origin within the member states is created.
Despite entering into force on April 26th, 2021, it is not yet available to applicants and is expected to start operating around July 2022.
