EAPO and RNIIIS

Within the framework of the IX Legal Forum of the BRICS countries, held in Moscow on the basis of MGIMO of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, on September 19, 2024, a ceremony was held to sign an Agreement on scientific and Innovative Cooperation between the Eurasian Patent Organization (EAPO), an international intergovernmental organization established in 1994 by the Eurasian Patent Convention (EAPC), and the autonomous non–profit organization "Republican Scientific-Research Institute of Intellectual Property" (RNIIIS), the only scientific specialized the Organization for Intellectual Property Issues in the EAEU and CIS countries, established in 2005 the Accounting Chamber of Russia, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation with the participation of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

 The President of the Eurasian Patent Office of the EAPO (EAPO) Grigory Petrovich Ivliev and Vladimir Nikolaevich Lopatin, Scientific supervisor (Director) of the RNIIIS, who spoke at the signing of the Agreement,  noted the importance of the Agreement for realizing the potential of the parties, taking into account the accumulated experience for further Eurasian integration through the intellectual property market and the development of a regional system of legal protection of industrial property within the framework of the Large Eurasian Partnership uniting the EAEU, CIS and BRICS countries, which account for more than half of the World's population and 60 percent of global GDP.

RNIIIS Press Service