Bishkek
January 14, 1998 # 7

The Law of the Kyrgyz Republic "On Trademarks, Service Marks and Appellations of Places of Origin of Goods"

Section I. General provisions
Section II. Trademark and service mark
Section III. Registration of a trademark
Section IV. Collective mark
Section V. Use of a trademark
Section VI. Transfer of a trademark
Section VII. Termination of a legal protection
Section VIII. Appellation of a place of origin
Section IX. Registration and granting of the right to use appellation of origin
Section X. The use of the appellation of origin
Section XI. Termination of a legal protection of the appellation of the place of origin
Section XII. Final provisions

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Section IV.
COLLECTIVE MARK

Article 18. Rights to a Collective Mark

Legal entities, representing unions, economic associations, concerns and other unions of legal entities (hereinafter referred to as the associations) may file applications for the collective mark meant for designation of goods produced and released by them, that possess unified qualitative or other common features.

An application for a collective mark shall be accompanied with two copies of the Charter of the collective mark which includes the information on the name, location of the association, the list of legal entities which have the right to use the trademark, the purpose of its registration, the list and common qualitative or other general characteristics of the goods which will be denoted by the collective mark, the terms of its use, the order of monitoring its use and the responsibility for violation of the Charter of a collective mark.

Article 19. Registration of a Collective Mark

The registration of a collective mark shall be carried out in accordance with Article 12 of this Law. In addition to this, the Register and the certificate of a trademark shall be added with the information on legal entities which have the right to use the collective mark, reference to the Charter and its date. These data shall be published in the Official Bulletin of Kyrgyzpatent. The owner of a collective mark shall notify Kyrgyzpatent about the changes in the Charter of the collective mark.

If the collective mark is used on the goods, which do not possess common qualitative or other common characteristics, the validity of its registration may be terminated before the due time in full or in part on the basis of the ruling made by court, accepted on the application from any person.

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