Patentica participated in the sixty-fifth series of meetings of the Assemblies of the Member States of WIPO at the WIPO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland

This year hundreds of delegates from WIPO’s 193 Member States have joined the July 9-17 WIPO Assemblies to negotiate the future of the global intellectual property (IP) ecosystem and WIPO’s activities in promoting the economic, social and cultural development of all countries.

Maria Nilova attended the special meeting organized in WIPO headquarters, dedicated to 30th anniversary of the Eurasian Patent Organization. She congratulated the Head of the Eurasian Patent Organization, Grigory Ivliev, on behalf of Patentica Company, its partners, attorneys, lawyers and staff.

From the date of signing the Eurasian Patent Convention in 1994, the Eurasian Patent Organization (EAPO) has been a driving force of the legislative development of the regional patent system and has served as a consolidating basis for facilitating and advancing national patent regulations in the member states of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).

The creation of a regional system in Eurasia similar to the European Patent Organization has come as a brilliant solution to the problems evolved after the disintegration of the Soviet Union.

Thanks to invaluable help of the WIPO, and personally, WIPO Director General Arpad Bogsch, the Eurasian Convention survived already 30 years without changes and nowadays serves as a center point for further expanding the economic progress in the Eurasian region.

Over those 30 years, the level of collaborative activities among member states have increased to cement economic, scientific, technological and ecological relations.

EAPO acts now as an International Searching Authority and an International Preliminary Examination Authority in accordance with the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT).

EAPO is also nowadays a member of Patent Prosecution Highway Programme (PPH Programme) and accepts requests from several jurisdictions, including China, Japan, EPO and the Republic of Korea.

In 2019, a protocol to the Eurasian Patent Convention on the protection of industrial designs was signed. The protocol has been in effect since June 2021, and in future, the EAPO is expected to join the Hague system of international registration of industrial designs.

The agreement on Eurasian utility models and the long-awaited agreement on Eurasian trademarks are also something to look forward to.

Further development plans of the Eurasian Patent Organization are impressive and include:

— creating a centralized information and examination database to provide exchange of patent information between the regional and national patent offices;

— complete digitalization of services, including the use of big data;

— development of the Eurasian dispute resolution system;

— further developing the Eurasian Pharmaceutical Register established in 2021 with the information on valid Eurasian patents for inventions related to active pharmaceutical ingredients with international non-patent names.

— expanding educational projects by creating IP commercialization and technology transfer centers in technoparks.

Patentica congratulates the Eurasian Patent Office for these achievements and expresses its support to the Eurasian Patent Organization in its new endeavors to integrate several IP systems within a single intergovernmental body, including patents for inventions, designs and in future, utility models and trademarks.