EAPO - EA
Jurisdiction - General Information
The Eurasian Patent Organization (EAPO) provides a uniform application procedure for physical and legal
persons to protect their inventions on the basis of a single Eurasian patent valid in the territory of eight
States party to the Eurasian Patent Convention (EAPC): Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan,Kyrgyzstan, the Russian Federation, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan, with the Republic of Moldova
recognizing validity of Eurasian patents granted on the basis of applications filed with the Eurasian
Patent Office before April 26, 2012.
EAPO may be a receiving office, a designated office, and an elected office under the Patent Cooperation
Treaty (PCT).
More legal information about intellectual property-related laws and regulations of EAPO can be foundon WIPO Lex.

Online Patent Register and Online Gazette
EAPO has an Online Register and an Online Gazette.

Features and search functionalities
The online patent register contains information on issued patents only and has a Russian and English
interface. It can be accessed without any restrictions.
Through the patent register you can retrieve information on Legal Status and Fee Payment (for each
designated country), and access the Full Publications.
The patent register can also be searched by PCT Application/Publication Number, byApplicant/Inventor Name (in Russian characters) and by Priority Data.
Dossier/File Wrapper Information is not available for general public.
The online gazette is published monthly in Russian. Its current coverage is from 2007 to present. Every
issue is available for viewing in HTML and PDF formats, and can also be retrieved by searching theEurasian publication server at this link.
Retrospective collection of Official Gazette (1996-2006) is available in PDF format.

Additional Information
Particularities of patent protection given by EAPO
Protection through Supplementary Protection Certificates (SPCs) is not available, but instruments ofPatent Term Extension are possible under the EAPO procedures on extending the term of a Eurasianpatent in compliance with the national legislation of each member country.

Search tips
PCT documents can be searched by PCT Application/Publication Number, e.g. "WO2002014296".
An example of Legal Status is, e.g., “Early termination of a Eurasian patent due to non-payment of thefee for maintaining a Eurasian patent in due time “for patent 005047.
Fee Payment information is available for each designated country in a table; therefore other Legal
Status can be inferred for individual contracting parties, e.g. termination due to non-payment of themaintenance fee in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and theRepublic of Moldova on 17.08.2005, for patent 5202.
Full Publications can be obtained, e.g. for patent 5202, for applications (A1) or granted patents (B1)from the Online Register or from the Publication Server.
Search in English is available (for patents only) in the English version of the EAPO patent database
EAPATIS at this link. On EAPATIS one can search among a number of internal and external sources. Free
access is limited to EAPO and CIS patents, Espacenet and Patentscope, while paid access is provided to anumber of national patents databases.
Search results show the links to the above-mentioned resources (Online Register and Eurasianpublication server).