At least 4,667 violations in the field of intellectual property were registered in the EAEU countries last year. The Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) reported.
According to its data, the number of counterfeit goods detected in 2023 in the states of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) amounted to 5.8 million units, Director of the Department for the Development of Entrepreneurial Activities of the EEC, Yernar Bakenov, reported to members of the Advisory Committee on Intellectual Property. According to him, «the leading positions in counterfeiting in the EAEU member countries are occupied by clothing and footwear, games and toys, car parts, food products, alcoholic beverages, household appliances and electronics, and accessories.»
The Commission presented a number of analytical documents, including statistical indicators from 2019 to 2023. They 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 practice in the field of protecting intellectual property rights in the EAEU countries over the past year.
Yernar Bakenov also informed that an analytical review in the field of intellectual property in the EAEU states, as well as a report on the state of law enforcement practice in the field of protecting intellectual property rights in the union countries for 2023, will be published in the near future.
The participants considered proposals for the draft action plan for the implementation of the declaration on the further development of economic processes within the EAEU until 2030 and until 2045 «Eurasian Economic Path» in the field of intellectual property. The practice of providing legal protection for information constituting production secrets (know-how) in the union states, and the specifics of implementing the agreement on trademarks, service marks and appellations of origin of the union’s goods were discussed.
The meeting 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 countries.
