General information
Valid Nice Classification – NCL NCL 12-2023.
Participating countries – Kazakhstan, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Belarus.
At the moment, this procedure is not available at the official level, since the application mechanism has not been fully adjusted by the intellectual property departments of the participating countries of the Eurasian Economic Union.
General information
Invention
List of Contracting States: Republic of Azerbaijan, Republic of Armenia, Republic of Belarus, Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic (Kyrgyzstan), Russian Federation, Republic of Tajikistan and Turkmenistan.
Registration period – about 2-6 years from the application filing date.
Confirmation document – Certificate.
Term of validity – 20 years from the application filing date. There is an opportunity to extend the patent validity in the Contracting State whose legislation provides the extension of the validity of the national patent for an invention.
What can be protected: device, method (process), substance, biotechnological product, usage of the device, method, substance, biotechnological product (use of the object for a new purpose).
Procudure
| Step | Term | Official Notification | Deadline |
| Application Filing | 1 day | Notification with registration number, applicant name, filing date and time | Direct filing with claiming priority – 12 months from priority date
PCT national phase entry in EAPO – 31 months from priority date |
| Formal Examination | within 1-4 months from application filing date | Formal examination request / Notification on formal examination completion | Response to formal examination request – within time limit specified in notification |
| Substantive Examination | 1-5 years after filing request for substantive examination | Substantive examination request / Decision on grant/refusal | Filing request for substantive examination – within 6 months from publication date
Response to substantive examination request – 4 months from date of reception |
| Publication and Grant | within 6 months after grant fees payment | Certificate | Payment of grant and publication fees – 4 months from reception of grant decision |
| Maintenance | annually | Invitation to pay annuity fees | First annuity fees payment includes payment for previous years starting from application filing date
Annuity fees depends on the number of contracting states, where the patent is maintained |
Requirements
1. Applicant information – full name / title and registered office.
2. Inventor information – full name and registration address.
3. Number of International publication (for PCT procedure) or application materials: claims, description, abstract, drawings (for non-PCT procedure; international application was not published).
4. Translation of the application into Russian (we prepare by ourselves) must be submitted within 4 months from the date of filing.
5. Power of Attorney (no legalization or notarization required) must be submitted within 2 months from the date of filing.
6. Certified copy of the priority application (if priority is claimed) must be submitted within 4 months from the date of filing.
General information
Registration period – about 12 months.
Confirmation document – Certificate of registration of industrial design or industrial model.
Validity period – 5 years from the application filing date, with possible extension of the term for one or more five-year periods (in total, not more than 25 years from the application filing date).
What can be protected as an industrial design: the appearance of the product, which is determined by the shape, configuration, ornament, combination of colors, lines, contours of the product, texture or texture of the material of the product.
Official language – application materials are submitted in Russian and all paperwork is conducted in Russian.
Procedure
| Stage | Duration | Results of the stage | Necessary actions |
| Application filing | 1 day | Notification of application filing date and application number
Notification of forwarding application to Eurasian Department and invitation to pay single fees
Notification of receipt of application by Eurasian Department |
To pay fees for forwarding application to Eurasian Department (only when submitting to National Department)
To pay single fees – at filing date or within 3 months from notification date |
| Priority establishment (optional) | within 2 months from filing date | Notification of priority establishment | To submit documents that confirm legitimacy of priority claim and their translation – at filing date or within 2 months from filing date
To pay fees for priority claim – at filing date or within 3 months from filing date |
| Preliminary examination | within 2 months from filing date | Examination request to make clarifications, eliminate inconsistencies, etc
Notification of positive completion of preliminary examination |
To submit response to Examination request |
| Publication of application | within 1 months from Notification of positive completion of preliminary examination | Publication of application in Official Bulletin | To pay substantive examination fees – at filing date or within 3 months from publication date |
| Third party objections | within 2 months from publication date | Notification of submitted objections
Publication of information about submitted objections in Official Bulletin |
To submit response to submitted objections – within 1 month from forwarding date |
| Substantive examination | after Third party objections completion | Request for additional information
Request of substantive examination
Application examination report / Decision on state registration
Notification of readiness to grant certificate |
To submit additional information – within 4 months from request forwarding date
To submit response to substantive examination request |
| State registration | about 2 months | Registration in National Register of Eurasian Patents | To pay registration, publication and grant fees – at filing date or within 2 months from Notification of grant |
| Publication of information on state registration | within 2 months from registration date | Publication of registration information in Official Bulletin | — |
| Certificate grant | after publication | Certificate reception | — |
| Annuity | every 5 years | Notification of expiration
Notification of registration of annuity fees |
To submit request for extension of validity period – within last year of validity
To pay fees – within last year of validity |
Requirements
1. Information about the applicant – full name / address of permanent residence, name of the legal entity / address of registration of the legal entity.
2. Information about the author(s) – full name, address of permanent residence.
3. A set of images, that gives a complete idea of the product – drawings of the general appearance of the product, photos, drawings, assembly map, etc.
4. Power of attorney for a representative in intellectual property (no legalization or notarization required).
5. Priority claim with reference to the filing date, the number of the previous application and the name of the country or institution where it was submitted, as well as a certified copy of the previous application issued by the institution that received it, and a translation of the copy of the application in Russian (if priority is established).
