Dmitry Klimenko

As in most European countries – where the respective national patent system coexists with a wider European system – the national patent system in Russia coexists with the Eurasian patent system, which comprises eight contracting states. The legislative basis of the Russian patent system is the Civil Code. The Eurasian patent system is based on the Eurasian Patent Convention (1994), which includes (in addition to Russia) seven members of the Commonwealth of Independent States: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan.