Registration period – about 10-12 months from the date of filing. Proof of registration – Certificate Procedures feature – From the date of filing you should regularly monitor trade mark applications to check whether any of them conflict with your trade mark.
Step | Term | Official notification |
Filing an application | 1 day | Notification with entr. number, Name of applicant, Date and time of filing |
Formal examination | 1 month | Official notification about priority date |
Substantive examination | 8 month | Official notification of granting/refusal |
Granting the Certificate | 1 month after payment for granting | Certificate |
1. The Applicant details
Legal Entity | Physical person |
The full official name (Engl. translitaration) | The Name (as it is in the passport and/or Engl. transliteration) |
A Legal address | An address |
2. The image of the TM (jpg), The verbal elements, other 3. Goods and services / classes NCL 11-2018 (we‘ll help you to choose the classes for your goods/services) 4. POA (scanned copy without legalization)
Representation by a trademark attorney Foreign applicants must perform the trademark prosecution in Kazakhstan through an agent, a registered in Kazakestan trademark attorney.
Priority document The priority document must be submitted within three months from filing a trademark application in Kazakhstan.
Translation. Foreign applicants must perform the trademark prosecution in Kazakhstan through an agent, a registered in Kazakhstan trademark attorney.
Opposition period against trademark application in Kazakhstan is not stipulated.
Registration period – about 3-5 years from application filing date.
Proof of registration – Certificate.
Term of validity – 20 years from the application filing date. Patent for invention can be extended for additional 5 years if the object of the patent is a medicine, a pesticide, when the use of the product requires the permission of the competent authority.
What can be protected: product (device, substance, microorganism strain, plant and animal cell culture, etc.); method (process of affecting a material object with material resources); including use of a product or method for a new purpose and use of a new product for the specific purpose.
Step | Term | Official notification | Deadline |
Filing application | 1 day | Notification with registration number, name of applicant, date and time of filing. | Direct filing with claiming priority – 12 months from priority date1. PCT national phase entry in Kazakhstan – 31 months from the priority date. |
Formal examination | 4-6 months from application filing date | Request to submit corrected or missing documents / Notification of completion of formal examination. | Responding to formal examination request – 3 months from date of receipt2. |
Substantive examination | 2-4 years from filing of petition to proceed substantive examination | Substantive examination Request / Decision of grant/refusal. | Filing petition to proceed substantive examination – within 3 months from the receipt of Notification of completion of formal examination. Responding to Substantive examination request – 3 months from date of receipt2. |
Grant and Publication | within 6 months from grant fees payment | Certificate | Payment of grant and publication fees – 3 months from Grant decision receipt3. |
Annuity fees | each year | Invitation to pay annuity fees | Annuity fee for each subsequent year is paid during the previous year4. First annuity payment includes payment for the previous years starting from application filing date. |
1 – This term may be extended for 2 months, upon corresponding fee payment.
2 – This term may be extended for 6 months, upon corresponding fee payment.
3 – This term may be extended for 3 months, upon corresponding fee payment.
4 – Validity of the patent can be renewed within 3 years after expiration of payment period, upon corresponding fee payment and payment annuity fees that were missed.
Registration period – about 10-12 months from from application filing date.
Proof of registration – Certificate.
Term of validity – 5 years from the application filing date. Patent for utility model can be extended for additional 3 years.
What can be protected: product (device, substance, microorganism strain, plant and animal cell culture, etc.); method (process of affecting a material object with material resources); including use of a product or method for a new purpose and use of a new product for the specific purpose; with the exception of diagnostic, therapeutic and surgical methods for treating humans or animals.
Step | Term | Official notification | Deadline |
Filing application | 1 day | Notification with registration number, name of applicant, date and time of filing. | Direct filing with claiming priority – 12 months from priority date1. PCT national phase entry in Kazakhstan – 31 months from the priority date. |
Formal examination | 4-6 months from application filing date | Request to submit corrected or missing documents / Decision of grant/refusal. | Responding to formal examination request – 3 months from date of receipt2. |
Grant and Publication | within 6 months from grant fees payment | Certificate | Payment of grant and publication fees – 3 months from Grant decision receipt3. |
Annuity fees | each year | Invitation to pay annuity fees | Annuity fee for each subsequent year is paid during the previous year4.First annuity payment includes payment for the previous years starting from application filing date. |
1 – This term may be extended for 2 months, upon corresponding fee payment.
2 – This term may be extended for 6 months, upon corresponding fee payment.
3 – This term may be extended for 3 months, upon corresponding fee payment.
4 – Validity of the patent can be renewed within 3 years after expiration of payment period, upon corresponding fee payment and payment annuity fees that were missed.
1. Applicant details.
Legal Entity | Natural person |
Full official name (English transliteration) | Name (as per passport and/or English transliteration) |
Legal address | Address |
2. Inventor details.
Natural person |
Name (as per passport and/or English transliteration) |
Address |
3. Number of International publication (PCT procedure) or Application materials: claims, description, abstract, drawings (non-PCT procedure; international application wasn’t published).
4. Kazakh or Russian translation of the application (we prepare by ourselves).
5. POA (no legalization or notarization required).
6. Certified copy of the priority application (if priority is claimed).
Representation by the invention attorney: Foreign applicants must perform the invention/utility model prosecution in Kazakhstan through an agent, a registered in Kazakhstan invention attorney.
POA and Kazakh or Russian translation of the application must be submitted within 2 months from the date of filing.
Priority documents must be submitted within 6 months from the date of filing.
The procedure of copyright registration in Kyrgyzstan usually takes about 3-4 months.