Five years of the Eurasian system for the protection of industrial designs

In 2026, the Eurasian industrial design system marks its fifth anniversary. Over the past five years, it has become an effective regional mechanism for protecting design innovations, enabling applicants to obtain legal protection across the eight member states of the Eurasian Patent Organization (EAPO) through a single application procedure.

The Eurasian system provides protection for a wide range of design solutions, including packaging, labels, composite products, sets (kits) of articles, typefaces, graphical user interfaces, and independent parts of products. This broad scope makes the system attractive to manufacturers, designers, software developers, and other rights holders seeking protection in the Eurasian region.

One of the key advantages of the system is the possibility of including up to 100 industrial designs in a single application, provided they belong to the same class of the Locarno Classification. Upon successful examination, a single Eurasian industrial design patent may provide protection in all eight EAPO member states: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan.

Over the past five years, the Eurasian industrial design system has experienced significant growth. The number of applications increased from 92 in 2021 to 566 in 2025, while the number of industrial designs covered by those applications rose from 190 to 1,233. The number of granted Eurasian design patents also increased substantially, from 7 in the first year of operation to 531 in 2025.

The system’s international reach has expanded considerably, with the number of applicant countries growing from 9 in 2021 to more than 30 today.

To date, the Eurasian Patent Office has received more than 2,000 applications covering over 4,800 industrial designs. These figures demonstrate the growing importance of the Eurasian system as an efficient tool for protecting product designs across the Eurasian region.

As the Eurasian industrial design system continues to develop, it offers businesses and designers an increasingly effective mechanism for protecting design assets across multiple jurisdictions through a single regional procedure.

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