Eurasian Patent Organization

The Eurasian Patent Organization ( EAPO ) is a body set up by the Eurasian Patent Convention, an intergovernmental organization based in Moscow, the nine Member States, which are all successor states of the Soviet Union belongs. The official language is Russian.

The Eurasian Patent Organization has great similarity to the European Patent Organisation.

Eurasian Office

The most important organ of the EAPO is the Euroasische Patent Office ( EAPA ) or Eurasian Office, whose task is the examination and grant of Eurasian patents. The EAPA also has its headquarters in Moscow.

By the end of 2004 9577 patent applications were filed and granted 5571 patents.

President of the Eurasian Patent Office

The Eurasian Patent Office shall be headed by a president:

Financing

The EAPO does not receive tax money, but pays for itself from the space occupied proceedings and annual fees, gifts, grants, etc.; potential surpluses are thereby used for the development of the Office. It is expected that this will lead to the EPO as a reproach by critics, the Office would have an interest in the granting of trivial patents.

Staff

The 86 ( as of 2004) Servants of the Eurasian Patent Office are mainly nationals of EAPÜ contracting states.

Departments of the Eurasian Patent Office

The Eurasian Patent Office includes the following departments:

  • Research departments that create the search reports to the applications
  • Examining Divisions for substantive examination of applications and the grant of a patent
  • A legal department
  • A Department of International Cooperation

Eurasian patents

According to a centralized procedure Eurasian patents with effect in the territory of all the Member States are granted. However, it is not a unitary patent; for required extensions of the validity may be limited ( with a saving of fees) to individual States Parties; In addition, a patent be declared before the courts of a country with effect for this country only to be void.

Board of the Eurasian Patent Organization

The EAPA is supervised by a Board ( Article 3 para 3 EAPÜ ), which is the second body of the EPO and from the delegates of the Member States ' representatives and their deputies exists (Art. 3 para 1 EPC).

Member States

The nine states are the EAPO (as of 2005 ):

  • Armenia
  • Azerbaijan
  • Kazakhstan
  • Kyrgyzstan
  • Russian Federation
  • Tajikistan
  • Turkmenistan
  • Belarus

The countries that have signed the Convention but not yet ratified:

  • Georgia
  • Ukraine
  • Moldova
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