Law No. 7 on trademarks, service marks and places of origin of commodities. Pays/Territoire Kirghistan Type du document Législation Date 1997 Source FAO, FAOLEX Sujet Alimentation et nutrition Mot clé Traçabilité/traçage du produit Emballage/étiquetage Enregistrement Contrôle de qualité alimentaire/innocuité des produits alimentaires Aire géographique Asie, Asie Centrale, CEI (Communauté des États indépendants), Europe et Asie Centrale, Nations en développement sans littoral, Asie du Nord Entry into force notes The Law enters into force from the date of its official publication. Résumé The present Law regulates relations connected with registration, legal protection and utilization of trademarks, service marks and places of origin of commodities. Trademarks and service marks are symbols serving for the distinction of commodities (service) produced by some legal or natural persons from similar commodities (service) produced by other legal or natural persons. Verbal, graphic, volumetrical and other symbols and combinations thereof may be registered as trademarks. Trademark can be registered in any colour or any colour combination (art. 2). Legal protection of trademarks shall be carried out on the grounds of state registration in conformity with the present Law and international agreements concluded by the Republic of Kyrgyzstan (art. 3). In the register of trademarks shall be recorded the following data : description of trademark, owner’s personal data, the list of commodities to which the trademark is applicable listed in conformity with the International classification of commodities and services for the registration of trademarks (art. 6). The registration of trademark shall be valid for the period of ten years from the date of presentation of application to the authorized institution. The validity can be extended for other ten years in conformity with the owner’s application presented in the course of the last year of the current registration (art. 15). Preventive labelling shall authorize the owner of trademark to put along with the registration mark indicating that the designation has been registered in the Republic of Kyrgyzstan (art. 21). Place of origin of commodities is country name, inhabited area, inhabited locality or other geographic object the particular properties of which are determined by typical natural conditions and human factors simultaneously proper to the given geographic object. Historical name of a geographic object may be used as place of origin of commodities. Indication, even if it contains the name of a geographic object but being in common use in the Republic of Kyrgyzstan as common name of a certain type of commodities, cannot be used as the name of the place of origin of commodities (art. 27). Registration of the place of origin of commodities and granting the right of use thereof shall be carried out by the State register of the places of origin of commodities on the grounds of decision taken by expertise (art. 32). The registration of trademark shall be valid for the period of ten years from the date of presentation of application to the authorized institution. The validity can be extended for other ten years in conformity with the owner’s application presented in the course of the last year of the current registration (art. 33). The Law consists of 12 Sections composed of 44 articles. Texte intégral Russe