(221)                   Regarding Industrial Property
                            In The Kygyz Republic 

   The following notice is reprinted from the December
1993 edition of "Industrial Property" published by the World Intellectual
Property Organization, giving the status of industrial property protection
in the Kyrgyz Republic:
   
   The present situation of industrial property protection in the Kyrgyz
Republic is summerized below.

                              I. Legislation

 (1) Pending the enactment of the industrial property laws, the Government
of the Kyrgyz Republic adopted, on August 2, 1993, the Provisional
Regulations on Industrial Property, which cover inventions, utility
models, industrial designs and trademarks. It is possible, as of August 2,
1993, to file applicastions for the grant of patents for inventions and
for the registration of utility models, industrial designs and trademarks
with the Patent Department of the State Committee on Science and New
Technologies of the Kyrgyz Republic.

                   II. Application of International Treaties

   (2) The Kyrgyz Republic intends to become party to the Convention
Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), to the
Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, to the Madrid
Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks, to the
Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) and to the Nice Agreement Concening the
International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of the
Registration of Marks.
   (3) Announcements will be made as soon as the Kyrgyz Republic becomes
party to the treaties mentioned in paragraph (2), above, or to any other
treaties administered by WIPO. Details will be given at that stage of the
procedures to be followed to confirm the application to the Kyrgyz
Republic of certain international applications under the PCT and certain
international registrations under the Madrid Agreement.
   
                  III. Reregistration of Industrial Property
                  Titles Granted by the Patent Office of the
                    Soviet Union and Further Processing of
                             Pending Applications

   (4) The owner of a patent for invention, an inventor's certificate, an
industrial design patent or certificate granted by the Patent šcnOffice of
the Soviet Union and still in force may file directly with the Patent
Department of the State Committee on Science and New Technologies of the
Kyrgyz Republic before May 1, 1994, a request for the grant of a Kyrgyz
patent for invention, design patent or trademark certificate.
   (5) An applicant of an application for a patent for invention, for an
industrial design patent or for a trademark certificate filed before
August 2, 1993, with the express or implied intention of obtaining
protection also in the Kyrgyz Republic and pending with the Patent Office
of the Russian Federation may file with Patent Department of the State
Committee on Science and New Technologies of the Kyrgyz Republic before
May 1, 1994, a request that the application be further processed under
Kyrgyz legislation.

                          IV. Procedural Provisions

   (6) The procedures referred to in paragraphs (1), (4) and (5) are
subject to payment of the prescribed fees.

                        V. Address of the Patent Office

Patent Department of the State Committee on Science and New
Technology
87, Isanov St.
720001 Bishkek
Kyrgyz Republic
Telephone: (3312) 21 54 86
21 54 94

Facsimile: (3312) 21 25 91

                                                           BRUCE A. LEHMAN
                                       Assistant Secretary of Commerce and
                                    Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks

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