Legal Updates

The Russian government’s Ruling No 1278 published on September 27, 2024 set new rules for maintaining in force invention and utility model patents and increased the IP rights-related official fees.

QazPatent increased the official fees for certain IP rights starting July 1, 2024.

The changes to the official fees for invention and design patents become effective on January 1, 2024.

Important changes to Kyrgyzstani IP legislation take effect in April, 2023.

On July 1, 2022, the Eurasian Patent Office increases the official fees for invention patent matters.

On May 7, 2022, Order No. 1532 of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia dated April 19, 2022 came into force. The Order introduced the list of goods for parallel imports.

The Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade was given the right to approve the list of goods for which parallel imports will be allowed.

The instrument of ratification by the Republic of Belarus of the Protocol on the Protection of Industrial Designs to the Eurasian Patent Convention has been deposited with the WIPO.

The Russian president has signed into law the bill on the accession of the Russian Federation to the Geneva Act of the Lisbon Agreement on Appellations of Origin and Geographical Indications.

The Protocol on the Protection of Industrial Designs to the Eurasian Patent Convention enters into effect for Tajikistan on November 30, 2021.