• to obtain a national certificate, it is necessary to apply to the RGKP NIIS (Kazpatent) - in this case the protection regime will be valid only in the territory of Kazakhstan;
• to secure protection in several countries, it is necessary to apply under the Madrid system - a foreign company may submit documentation to the patent office of its country, if it is a party to the Madrid Agreement;
• transfer of national application to international status is allowed - in this case, the company needs to submit an application and specify a list of countries in which protection is sought.

The contents of the application, for any variant of registration, must include a statement, a designation and its description, a list of product groups according to the classifier of the Nice Classification. A trademark in Kazakhstan can be registered in text, graphic, combined or other form.

A prerequisite for registration is to undergo expert examinations. When carrying out formal examination, the correctness of the forms and forms will be checked, as well as the completeness of the set of documents. The list of measures during the expert examination of the designation will be considerably broader:

• official information search in the registers of Kazpatent and WIPO;
• Experts will check the distinctiveness of the trademark, the absence of identity and similarity with similar objects that have already received protection;
• the absence of bans or restrictions on trademark registration will be checked.

If Kazpatent experts have any claims or comments on the merits of the submitted designation and its description, a refusal may be issued. It will be impossible to make changes in the content of the application at the stage of examination of the designation. To eliminate the risks of refusal or delay in registration, contact the specialists of our company. We will conduct a preliminary examination of the application and information search, we will provide and eliminate any reasons for refusal.

With a positive result of all examinations we register the trademark. The information about the rightholder and the registered object will be included into the national Kazpatent registry and/or similar WIPO registry. The right holder will be issued a registration certificate, which will be valid for 10 years with the possibility of extension.