Eurasian Patent Convention

Eurasian Patent Convention
	Parties (purple), former parties (green) and signatories that did not ratify (blue)
Signed	9 September 1994
Location	Moscow, Russia
Effective	12 August 1995
Condition	ratification by three States
Signatories	10
Parties	8 (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan)
Depositary	Director-General of WIPO
Language	Russian

The Eurasian Patent Convention (EAPC), Template:Lang-ru, is an international patent law treaty instituting the Eurasian Patent Organization (EAPO).^[1] It was signed on September 9, 1994 in Moscow, Russia and entered into force on 12 August 1995.^[2]

History

After the Collapse of the Soviet Union, its successor states had no system for protection of intellectual property. A common patent system was perceived in a convention which was signed on 27 December 1991, but never entered into force.^[2] This system would provide for a true unitary patent that "may be granted, assigned or canceled in the territory of all the Contracting States with due regard to the invention patentability criteria provided for in the USSR legislation". The second version of the convention went less far: in line with the European Patent Convention, it provided for a single evaluation phase, but after approval, it would be converted in a bundle of national patents.

States parties

The convention was signed by 10 states in 1994, 8 of which became members one year later upon ratification.^[3]

Country	Signature	Ratification/Accession	Denunciation
Armenia	9 September 1994	27 November 1995
Azerbaijan	9 September 1994	25 September 1995
Belarus	9 September 1994	8 May 1995
Georgia	9 September 1994
Kazakhstan	9 September 1994	4 August 1995
Kyrgyzstan	9 September 1994	13 October 1995
Moldova	9 September 1994	16 November 1995	26 April 2012
Russia	9 September 1994	27 June 1995
Tajikistan	9 September 1994	12 May 1995
Turkmenistan		1 March 1995
Ukraine	9 September 1994