News: Trademark registration in Uzbekistan

Registration of trademark in Uzbekistan

In Uzbekistan, registration of trademark is managed by the Agency for Intellectual Property of the Republic of Uzbekistan. It also regulates the other legal aspects relating to intellectual property. According to the legislation of the republic, legal protection of the trademark is carried out only after its official registration.

Law&Trust International, which is major specialist in the foregoing matters, will help with the registration of trademark in the Republic of Uzbekistan.

Patenting of trademark in Uzbekistan

Legal entity or natural person engaged in entrepreneurial activities can submit application in order to register trademark in Uzbekistan. The application submitted to the Patent Office of the Republic of Uzbekistan should undergo several stages, namely:

1. Formal examination. This stage is carried out within one month.
2. Examination of the designation applied for. Regulation of terms for this procedure is not fixed.

The application for trademark registration in Uzbekistan can be submitted both in Uzbek and Russian.

The main feature of filing the application in the Republic of Uzbekistan remains a huge difference in the amounts of state fees for foreign applicants and residents of the country. Foreigners pay much more.

After payment of the prescribed fee, the Agency for Intellectual Property of the Republic of Uzbekistan registers the certificate for trademark within 3 days.

Features of registering a brand name in Uzbekistan

It should be noted that due to the peculiarities of the Uzbek legislation, trademarks repeating the brand names known in the territory of the country and belonging to other persons who obtained the right to these trademark before the application was filed are not registered in the republic. If the rightholder has not exercised his exclusive right to the trademark for five years from the date of registration, this right can be revoked.

Another unusual feature is that the trademark with the expired term can not be re-registered on behalf of another person for subsequent three years after the end of the validity of the document for the right to own the brand. Such provision in the legislation of the state applies to cases where the owner refused the trademark before the expiration of the validity of the certificate.

Information on registered trademarks is published in the official bulletin of the Agency for Intellectual Property of Uzbekistan. There is no public access to the database of registered trademarks on the Internet, and this is another feature of the state register in Uzbekistan.

Law&Trust International will help to solve any difficulties arising in the process of registration of trademark in Uzbekistan, and also will considerably save your time. The professionalism of our lawyers and vast experience in registering trademarks abroad will minimize the time for obtaining certificate.