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The Patent System of Kyrgyzstan

Intellectual Property Agency of the Kyrgyz Republic was established by the Decree of the Government of July 15, 1993 as the Patent Department under the State Committee on Science and New Technologies. In January 1995 the above-mentioned Department was transformed into the Main Department of Intellectual Property of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Kyrgyz Republic.

Patent system of the Kyrgyz Republic began functioning with adopting of the "Temporary Regulations on Industrial Property of the Kyrgyz Republic" of August 2, 1993.

On March 04, 1996 the Main Department of Intellectual Property was converted into State Department on Science and Intellectual Property under the Government of Kyrgyz Republic (Kyrgyzpatent).

Nowadays, the following ten laws of the Kyrgyz Republic have been adopted and put into effect:

• "Patent Law" of the Kyrgyz Republic
• Law of the Kyrgyz Republic "On Trademarks, Service marks and Appellations of Origin"
• Law of the Kyrgyz Republic "On Copyright and Related Rights"
• Law of the Kyrgyz Republic "On Legal Protection of Computer Programs and Database"
• Law of the Kyrgyz Republic "On Legal Protection of Topologies of Integrated Circuits"
• Law of the Kyrgyz Republic on Legal Protection of Selective Achievements"
• "On Trade Secrets"
• Civil Code Part II Section "Intellectual Property"
• "On Service Inventions, Utility Models and Industrial Designs"
• "On Trade Names"

The following laws are being developed:

• "On secret inventions, utility models and industrial designs"
• "On Patent Attorneys"

Furthermore, Kyrgyzpatent fulfils close cooperation with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). From February 14, 1994 Kyrgyz Republic is a member of the World Intellectual Property Organization and its main unions:

• Paris Union for Industrial Property (151 Member States)
• Madrid Union for the International Registration of Marks (49 Member States)
• PCT Union (98 Member States)

The instruments on accession to the following agreements have been deposited to WIPO Director General of September 10, 1998:

• Nice Agreement Concerning the International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of the Registration of Marks
• Locarno Agreement Establishing an International Classification for Industrial Designs
• Strasbourg Agreement Concerning the International Patent Classification
• Vienna Agreement Establishing an International Classification of the Figurative Elements of Marks
• WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT) (1996)
• Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works