Dear Applicants,
On February 8, 2024, the Minister of Justice of the Republic of
Kazakhstan signed an order amending and supplementing the order
dated August 29, 2018, No. 1349 "On Approval of the Rules for
the Examination of Applications for Breeding Achievements,
Industrial Property Objects, Trademarks, Service Marks,
Geographical Indications, Appellations of Origin of Goods, and the
Registration of Topographies of Integrated Circuits"
(hereinafter referred to as the Rules).
The main addition to the Rules is the provision allowing
applicants to reduce the review period for a trademark application
from seven to three months under the accelerated examination
procedure.
In the context of dynamically developing market relations and
the development of electronic trading platforms, the practice of
accelerated trademark examination is widely used in developed and
developing countries such as Singapore, the USA, Japan, China, the
UK, India, and Georgia.
