Eurasian Patent Convention

The Eurasian Patent Convention came into force in 1995.

The Convention has created a unitary patent system throughout the territory of its nine contracting states:

1. Armenia
2. Kazakhstan
3. Russian Federation
4. Azerbaijan
5. Kyrgyzstan
6. Tajikistan
7. Belarus
8. Moldova
9. Turkmenistan

The main benefits provided by the Convention are:

• A simple and cost-effective procedure for obtaining patents with validity in all of the Convention's Contracting States.
• Application directly to the Eurasian Office has the effect that the entire Eurasian patent grant procedure is governed by Eurasian Office provisions.
• For applications filed in accordance with the PCT, the initial part of the procedure is governed by PCT provisions (international phase), whereas the regional phase is governed by Eurasian Office provisions.
• The term of the Eurasian patent is twenty years from the date of filing of the Eurasian application or from the date of filing of the International application.