The Eurasian Patent Office has announced amendments to its official fee schedule and Patent Regulations, which will enter into force on February 1, 2026. The changes affect invention and industrial design applications and introduce stricter procedural rules, particularly in relation to deadline extensions.

Official fees for inventions will increase by approximately 7% to 25%, while fees for industrial designs, unchanged in the previous adjustment, will rise more significantly, with average increases of 30% to 50%. A notable procedural change concerns responses to official actions in invention cases: the total extension period will now be capped at 24 months, whereas previously no overall limit applied. The cost of such extensions has increased substantially, with extension fees amounting to approximately EUR 2,900 for the first year and EUR 10,000 for the second year. Extensions granted before February 1, 2026, will remain valid, and maintenance fees are not affected.

The regulatory amendments also introduce substantive updates. For inventions, the list of excluded subject matter has been expanded to cover certain ethically sensitive technologies, patent publications are no longer treated as non-prejudicial disclosures, and the rules on patent term extension have been clarified. The EAPO may additionally request patent search results from other offices for related family applications.

For industrial designs, appeals may now be filed against both refusal and grant decisions, the period for challenging a Eurasian design patent has been extended to the full term of validity, and a new regulatory chapter on international design applications under the Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement has been introduced, to take effect at a later stage.

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