National Phase of PCT: under Chapter I: 31 months; under Chapter II: 31 months.
Validity: issued after preliminary and full examination - valid for 20 years from the filing date.
Annuities: are due beginning with the third annuity.
Opposition: not regulated.
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, as the Kyrgyz 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 is accepted in absence of actual use.
Duration - renewals: 10-year period after the filing 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 Kyrgyz filing date, or the last renewal date in the former Soviet Union).
Opposition: not provided for.
Duration - renewals: after complete examination: 10 years from the filing date. Renewable for one additional period of 5 years.
Opposition: not regulated.
Duration – renewals: one year, renewable.
Uniform dispute resolution procedure: none.
Area: 198,500 sq. km.
Population: 6,140,200 inhabitants (estimated 2017).
Capital: Bishkek, with about 1 million inhabitants.
Languages: Kyrgyz, Russian.
Currency: Kyrgyz Som (KGS).
The Kyrgyz Republic used to be a part of the former Soviet Union. The Republic declared its independence on August 31, 1991. The Patent Department of the Ministry of Education and Sciences was established on June 15 1993 and is currently reorganized into the State Service of Intellectual Property and Innovation under the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic (Kyrgyzpatent).
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