A meeting of the Administrative Council of the Eurasian Patent Organization was held in Nur Sultan

The thirty-fifth (twenty-sixth ordinary) meeting of the Administrative Council of the Eurasian Patent Organization (AC EAPO) was held in Nur Sultan on September 10, 2019. The meeting was attended by official delegations led by plenipotentiaries of the member states of the Eurasian Patent Convention (EAPC): Republic of Azerbaijan, Kyrgyz Republic, Republic of Armenia, Republic of Belarus, Republic of Kazakhstan, Republic of Tajikistan, Russian Federation, and Turkmenistan. As an observer, the meeting was attended by the Director of the Department for Transition and Developed Countries of the World Intellectual Property Organization Michal Svantner. The Republic of Kazakhstan was represented by the plenipotentiary representative - Vice Minister of Justice Almat Madaliyev and the deputy plenipotentiary representative - Director of NIIP Yerbol Ospanov.

The meeting was opened by Dinara Moldosheva, Chairperson of the AC EAPO, Chairperson of the State Intellectual Property and Innovation Service under the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic, who welcomed delegations of the AC EAPO members and also congratulated the EAPC on the 25th anniversary and the successful holding of the Diplomatic Conference on the adoption of the Protocol on the Protection of Industrial Designs to the EAPC.

During the meeting, the EAPO report for 2018 was approved; the draft EAPO budget for 2020, the draft Regulation on the passage of long-term internships in the EAPO, information on awarding the V.I. Blinnikov's Gold Medal “For Contribution to Inventive and Patent Business” were heard; the issue of obtaining the status of an International Searching Authority and an International Preliminary Examination Authority by the Eurasian Patent Organization was considered.

Taking into account the signing on September 9 in Nur-Sultan of the Protocol on the Protection of Industrial Designs to the EAPC, one of the main issues was the discussion of forthcoming measures to introduce a unified protection system for industrial designs in the territories of the Contracting States. The terms for the development of the draft Instructions and the Regulation on Fees have been adopted.

The thirty-sixth (twenty-seventh regular) meeting of the AC EAPO is planned to be held in the Kyrgyz Republic in August 2020.