National Phase of PCT: under Chapter I: 30 months; under Chapter II: 31 months.
Validity: Short-term patent (if full examination is not requested): issued after formal examination – valid for 10 years as of the filing date. Patent: issued after full examination – valid for 20 years.
Annuities: are accumulated and paid with the granting fee, and for subsequent years, on the anniversary of the filing date (or International filing date for PCT).
Opposition: possible during the entire term of protection, through the Patent Office Appeal Board.
Kinds of protection: trademarks and service marks (word marks, device marks and combinations thereof). Besides the original version, filing of word mark applications in the Cyrillic alphabet is highly recommended, the Russian language still being a parallel language in the country.
Classification: International.
Obligation to use the registered mark: compulsory, 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 period after the filing date or last renewal date.
Opposition: possible.
Duration – renewals: 5 years from the filing date, renewable for two additional periods of 5 years.
Opposition: possible during the entire term of protection, through the Patent Office Appeal Board.
Duration – renewals: 10 years, renewable.
Uniform dispute resolution procedure: none.
Area: 488,100 sq. km.
Population: 5,411,012 inhabitants (estimated 2018).
Capital: Ashgabad, with about 810,000 inhabitants.
Language: Turkmen (official), Russian.
Currency: Manat.
Turkmenistan used to be part of the former Soviet Union. The republic declared its independence on October 27, 1991. The Patent Office of Turkmenistan (Turkmenpatent) was established in December 1993. Turkmenistan is a Neutral State; so declared officially by U.N.O. on December 12, 1995.
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