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<article article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.3" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">kulawr</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">Kutafin Law Review</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Kutafin Law Review</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2713-0525</issn><issn pub-type="epub">2713-0533</issn><publisher><publisher-name>MSAL</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.17803/2713-0533.2025.4.34.882-907</article-id><article-id custom-type="elpub" pub-id-type="custom">kulawr-727</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE LAW</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Towards the Uniformity and Consistency in Jurisprudence on the European and Eurasian Patents.</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title></trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2946-5744</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Kasyanov</surname><given-names>R. A.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Rustam A. Kasyanov, Dr. Sci. (Law), Professor, Department of Integration and Human Rights Law</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">r.kasyanov@inno.mgimo.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0009-0005-3504-8252</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Yazberdiev</surname><given-names>I. M.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Ihlas M. Yazberdiev, Postgraduate Student</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">ihlas.yazberdiev@gmail.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff xml:lang="en" id="aff-1"><institution>Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (MGIMO University)</institution><country>Russian Federation</country></aff><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2025</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>06</day><month>01</month><year>2026</year></pub-date><volume>12</volume><issue>4</issue><fpage>882</fpage><lpage>907</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright &amp;#x00A9; Kasyanov R.A., Yazberdiev I.M., 2026</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2026</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Kasyanov R.A., Yazberdiev I.M.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Kasyanov R.A., Yazberdiev I.M.</copyright-holder><license xml:lang="ru" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>Данная работа распространяется под лицензией Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.</license-p></license><license xml:lang="en" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.</license-p></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://kulawr.msal.ru/jour/article/view/727">https://kulawr.msal.ru/jour/article/view/727</self-uri><abstract><p>The paper analyzes dispute-resolution practice for European patents and evaluates mechanisms to ensure its uniformity, with emphasis on the functioning of the European Union. The European patent dispute system is complex and involves multiple adjudicative bodies — national courts of contracting states to the European Patent Convention, the European Patent Office’s Boards of Appeal, the Unified Patent Court, and the Court of Justice of the EU — which creates a need for tools to harmonize case law and consolidate European patent law. Using comparative legal analysis and statistical data on Eurasian patent disputes, the study assesses the applicability of European harmonization mechanisms to the Eurasian patent system and concludes that establishing a specialized supranational court for Eurasian patents would currently be premature. The analysis draws on foreign and Russian scholarly literature, national court practice across Europe, and decisions of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), the European Patent Organization (EPO) and the Court of Intellectual Property Rights.</p></abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>Unified Patent Court</kwd><kwd>European Patent Court</kwd><kwd>disputes on European patents</kwd><kwd>disputes on Eurasian patents</kwd><kwd>European patent</kwd><kwd>Eurasian patent</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><back><ref-list><title>References</title><ref id="cit1"><label>1</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="ru">Baillie, I.C. (1976). Where goes Europe? The European patent. Journal of Patent and Trademark Society, 58(3). Available at: https://tind.wipo.int/record/8609?ln=en [Accessed 03.01.2025].</mixed-citation><mixed-citation xml:lang="en">Baillie, I.C. (1976). Where goes Europe? The European patent. Journal of Patent and Trademark Society, 58(3). 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