National Phase of PCT: under Chapter I: 31 months; under Chapter II: 31 months.
Validity: issued after formal and full examination - valid for 20 years.
Annuities: are to be paid after the publication of the granted patent; subsequent annuities are payable after the anniversary of the filing date.
Opposition: may be presented by any physical or legal person within three months of publication in the Patent Office Gazette.
Kinds of protection: trademarks and service marks (word marks, device marks and combinations thereof; three-dimensional marks, sound marks, marks perceived by smell, holographic marks, luminous marks). Besides the original version, filing of word mark applications in the Cyrillic alphabet is highly recommended, as the Uzbek language uses the Cyrillic alphabet, and Russian still being a parallel language in the country.
Classification: International.
Obligation to use the registered mark: compulsory. A trademark, which is not used continuously during the last five-year period of its validity, may be cancelled upon request filed by an interested party; nominal use (advertising, publications) is accepted in absence of actual use.
Duration - renewals: 10-year period after the filing date or last renewal date (note: marks re-registered on the basis of the former Soviet Union registrations are due for renewal 10 years after the Uzbek filing date, or the last renewal date in the former Soviet Union).
Opposition: yes (objections).
Duration - renewals: after formal and novelty examination: 10 years from the filing date. Renewable for one additional period of 5 years.
Opposition: may be presented by any physical or legal person within three months of publication in the Patent Office Gazette.
Duration – renewals: one year, renewable.
Uniform dispute resolution procedure: none.
Area: 447,400 sq. km.
Population: approx. 32,500,000 inhabitants (estimated 2017).
Capital: Tashkent, with approx. 2,456,000 inhabitants.
Language: Uzbek (official), Russian (still used).
Currency: Uzbek sum.
Uzbekistan used to be part of the former Soviet Union. The republic declared its independence on September 1, 1991. In July 2011 the Agency on Intellectual Property of the Republic of Uzbekistan was established, in which the State Patent Office (established on October 1, 1992) is incorporated.
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