National Phase of PCT: under Chapter I: 31 months; under Chapter II: 31 months.
Validity: short-term patent issued after a formal and preliminary examination: valid for 5 years; patent issued after full examination: valid for 20 years from the day following the filing date.
Annuities: accumulated and due after the grant of the patent; subsequent annuities are payable prior to the anniversary of the filing date.
Opposition: may be filed within six months after the publication of the official notification of grant.
Kinds of protection: trademarks and service marks (word marks, numbers, letters, digits, device marks, three-dimensional, and combinations thereof). Besides the original version, filing of word mark applications in the Cyrillic alphabet is highly recommended, Russian still being one of the parallel languages in this country.
Classification: International.
Obligation to use the registered mark: compulsory. If not used within any five-year period after the registration (or last use) date, the mark can be cancelled upon request of an interested party.
Duration - renewals: 10 years from the filing date, renewable for further periods of 10 years.
Opposition: within three months after the publication of the mark.
Duration - renewals: after formal examination: 5 years. Extension: four additional 5-year periods.
Opposition: may be filed within three months of publication of the data concerning the application (following the formal examination), and within thirty days after publication of the decision to grant the design.
Duration – renewals: one year, renewable yearly.
Uniform dispute resolution procedure: available (ICANN UDRP model) before WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center.
Area: 33,700 sq. km.
Population: 3,550,900 inhabitants (estimated 2017).
Capital: Kishinev, with 820,500 inhabitants.
Language: Romanian.
Currency: Moldovan Leu.
One of the ex-USSR republics, now an independent State with its own Patent Office - AGEPI - State Agency on Intellectual Property of the Republic of Moldova.
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