Single Trademark Of The EAEU

The Senate of Kazakhstan approved the ratification of the Treaty on Trademarks, Service Marks and Appellations of Origin of Goods of the Eurasian Economic Union dated 03.02.2020 (Treaty on the TK EEU) on March 18, 2021.

What does it mean?
The Treaty will become a part of supranational legislation in the sphere of intellectual property and will regulate the regional system of legal protection of trademarks. As soon as the agreement comes into force it will be possible to get a single trademark of Eurasian Economic Union which will be valid on the territories of member countries (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Armenia, Belarus, Russia).

What does the treaty stipulate?
- the possibility of transformation of the national application into the application for a trademark of the EEU, provided the convention priority is observed;