National Phase of PCT: under Chapter I: 30 months; under Chapter II: 31 months.
Validity: issued after a formal and full examination – valid for 20 years.
Annuities: are to be paid after the publication of the granted patent.
Opposition: not provided for.
Kinds of protection: trademarks and service marks (word marks, device marks and combinations thereof, 3-dimensional marks, sound and light marks). Besides the original version, filing of word mark applications in the Cyrillic alphabet is highly recommended, as the Tajik language uses the Cyrillic alphabet, and Russian still being a parallel language in this country.
Classification: International.
Obligation to use the registered mark: compulsory. A trade mark which is not used during any three-year period after the registration date (or the last date of use), 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.
Opposition: provided for.
Duration – renewals: after formal and novelty examination: 10 years from the filing date. Extension: additional period of 5 years.
Opposition: not provided for.
Duration – renewals: one year, renewable.
Uniform dispute resolution procedure: before WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center.
Area: 143,100 sq. km.
Population: 8,051,500 inhabitants.
Capital: Dushanbe.
Language: Tajik (Farsi).
Currency: Somoni.
Tajikistan used to be a part of the former Soviet Union. The republic declared its independence on September 9, 1991. The Patent Office of Tajikistan (National Center for Patents and Information) was established in August 1993.
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