4,667 intellectual property infringements were identified in the EAEU in 2023

On October 9, a meeting of the Advisory Committee on Intellectual Property under the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) was held. The main purpose of the Eurasian Economic Commission is to ensure the conditions for the functioning and development of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), to develop proposals for the further development of integration.

Ernar Bakenov, Director of the Department for the Development of Entrepreneurship of the EEC, reported that in 2023, 5.8 million counterfeit goods were identified in the Eurasian Economic Union countries. He also noted that the leading positions in counterfeiting in the EAEU member states are occupied by clothing and footwear, games and toys, car parts, food products, alcoholic beverages, household appliances and electronics, accessories.

A number of analytical documents were submitted for consideration by the Committee participants, including statistical indicators from 2019 to 2023. The documents include an analytical review for the last five years with proposals for the development of the intellectual property sphere within the Union and recommendations for improving the legal framework in the states, as well as a report on monitoring law enforcement practices in the field of protecting intellectual property rights in the EAEU countries for 2023.

These documents will be published on the official website of the EAEU.

The meeting considered the practice of providing legal protection for information constituting production secrets («know-how») in the EAEU countries, the specifics of implementing the Treaty on Trademarks, Service Marks and Appellations of Origin of Goods of the Union.

The Committee participants also discussed the launch of a unified customs register of intellectual property objects, the formation of coordinated approaches to combating violations of intellectual property rights on the Internet, and the creation of a search service for industrial property objects protected in the EAEU states.