National Phase of PCT: under Chapter I: 31 months; under Chapter II: 31 months.
Validity: (after full examination) 20 years from the filing date.
Annuities: beginning with the 1st annuity from the filing date. The accumulated annuities are required to be paid after the patent is granted and published (within two months from the publication date).
Opposition: may be presented by any person at any time during the patent validity.
Kinds of protection: trade and service marks, word marks, device marks and combinations thereof, three-dimensional and sound marks. Besides the original version, filing of word mark applications in the Cyrillic alphabet is highly recommended, as the Kazakh language uses the Cyrillic alphabet, and Russian still being a parallel language in the country.
Classification: International.
Obligation to use the registered mark: must be used; if not used within any three-year period after the registration (or last use) date, the mark can be cancelled upon request of an interested party; nominal use (advertising, publications) is accepted in absence of actual use.
Duration - renewals: 10-year periods after the filing date or last renewal date.
Opposition: provided for.
Duration - renewals: after a formal and full examination - 15 years from the filing date, renewable for an additional period of 5 years.
Opposition: provided for.
Duration - renewals: one year, renewable.
Uniform dispute resolution procedure: none, but an administrative procedure other than UDRP is available before Kaznic.
Area: 2,717,300 sq. km.
Population: 15,522,000 (estimated 2011).
Capital: Astana with about 250,000 inhabitants; biggest city, industrial and cultural center: Almaty, with about 1,300,000 inhabitants.
Languages: Kazakh and Russian (as a means of international communication).
Currency: Tenge.
Kazakhstan used to be a part of the former Soviet Union. The republic declared its independence on December 16, 1991. The State Patent Office of Kazakhstan was established on June 23, 1992.
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