Eurasian Patent Office
The Eurasian Patent Organization has been established to provide legal protection for inventions and industrial designs in the Contracting States on the basis of the single Eurasian patent, through unified prosecution process that requires no further validation from the national offices and no translations of the application materials into national languages.
Apart from the convenience of having one application cover several jurisdictions at once, another perk of the Eurasian patent is its applicant friendly procedure, where final rejections a very rare. After the patent is obtained, a transfer of rights or renewal can also cover all the relevant jurisdictions. The Eurasian Patent can be maintained with regards to selected countries and in this case the renewal fees for maintenance of the Eurasian Patent is calculated as the aggregate sum of annuity fees established by each country-party designated by the applicant.
Electronic application process further facilitates the procedure. The main language for the proceedings in Russian. Russian translation of the documents can be filed within 2 months following the filing date.
While the Eurasian Patent Organization is available for PCT applications, examination of PCT applications shall be requested at filing, similar to European patent procedure. Average examination timeframe of an invention application by the Eurasian Patent and Trademark Office is about 3-5 years.
Examination of industrial designs involves them being published for opposition by third parties for two months.
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