Medium- and Long-Term Objectives of Intellectual Property Law in the Eurasian Region

The article discusses the priority strategic tasks for the modernization of the intellectual property sector in the Eurasian region. Special attention is paid to solving the tasks of improving regional and national legal regulation in this area. Taking into account the importance of the results of creative activity for universal development, the study notes the need for the widest possible involvement of patentable results of creative activity in patenting and exclusion procedures and, thereby, their protection in the mode of production secrets (know-how). Attention is drawn to the need to improve approaches to material stimulation of creative activity in general and invention in particular, to the expediency of achieving a balance of interests of users, copyright holders and authors of protected objects by increasing the level of guaranteed payments due to them. The issue of harmonization of the norms of national and regional patent law and the related issue of improving the system of acts regulating relations in the field under consideration, including through the use of guidelines and a clearer definition of their legal status, is being considered. The expansion of the range of regional legal protection objects and the creation of Eurasian judicial jurisdiction in the field of intellectual property are named as medium-term objectives of intellectual property law within the Eurasian region.