The President of Turkmenistan signed the law on accession to the Protocol on the Protection of Industrial Designs to the Eurasian Patent Convention on 13 July 2024. The Protocol will enter into force in Turkmenistan three months after the deposit of the instrument of accession.

The Eurasian industrial design protection system became operational on 1 June 2021, when the Eurasian Patent Office started accepting design applications. The Eurasian design system allows applicants to obtain protection simultaneously within the territory of the Eurasian Patent Organization (EAPO) member states where the Protocol is in force – Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Tajikistan. Turkmenistan, the only remaining EAPO member state, will now be added to the list of countries.

According to Article 22 of the Protocol, Eurasian design patents will have legal effect in the EAPO member states in which the Protocol was in force on the application filing date.

Prepared by: Igor Alfiorov

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Source: EAPO website