48th session of the Administrative Council of the Eurasian Patent Organisation held in Dushanbe

The 48th session of the Administrative Council of the Eurasian Patent Organisation was held in Dushanbe. The National Centre for Patent and Information of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of the Republic of Tajikistan informed Khovar about the meeting.

Representatives of the states party to the Eurasian Patent Convention took part, including Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and the Russian Federation, as well as the Eurasian Patent Office and the World Intellectual Property Organization.

The session reviewed key issues relating to the Eurasian Patent Organisation, including its annual report for 2025, the draft budget for 2027, accession to the Riyadh Agreement on legislation in the field of industrial designs dated 2024-11-22, and the proposal to award the V.I. Blinnikov gold medal for contribution to inventive and patent activity.

The meeting also discussed the organisation’s status as an International Searching Authority and an International Preliminary Examining Authority under the Patent Cooperation Treaty, together with the election of the chair of the Administrative Council and his deputies. In the end, the Republic of Armenia was elected as the new chair of the Administrative Council, and it was decided that the next session would be held in 2027 in Moscow.