Cooperation with the Eurasian Patent Organization (EAPO)

In 2008 Rospatent continued its active cooperation with the Eurasian Patent Organization (EAPO). On February 15, 2008 the Protocol on Technical Cooperation between the Federal Service for Intellectual Property, Patents and Trademarks (Rospatent) and the Eurasian Patent Office of the Eurasian Patent Organization (EAPO) on the matters relating to the 8th edition of the International Patent Classification was signed. In April 2008 the representatives of Rospatent took part in the 5th session of the Standing Working Group on Informational Technologies of the EAPO Administrative Council. In pursuance of the decision of the said session Rospatent submitted to the EAPO the information on practice of implementation in Rospatent the standard of presentation of information in XML format and also information on introduction of the electronic document processing system in the Office.
In the reporting year the representatives of Rospatent took part in the 13th meeting of the Budget Working Group of the EAPO Administrative Council and also in work of the 20th (the 15th regular meeting) of the EAPO Administrative Council.
In the course of the meeting there were discussed and accepted new documents: « The Procedure of Generation and Expenditure of the EAPO Reserve Fund» and «The Principals of Transferring Fees in Russian Rubles to the National Offices of the Contracting Parties for Maintaining the Eurasian Patents on their Territories», Changes and Additions to the Financial Regulation of the Eurasian Patent Convention connected with the formation of the Reserve Fund were adopted. All indicated documents are to put in force from January 1, 2009.

Mr. Samir Rahman
On & in behalf of
Patent and Law firm ‘IPPro’