Eurasian Patent Organization

TURKMENISTAN

The development of the system of industrial property protection in Turkmenistan

Turkmenistan is an independent, democratic, secular and law-governed state that formed by the will of the people.

In November 1995 Turkmenistan was declared a neutral nation by a Decree of the United Nations General Assembly.

The neutral nation of Turkmenistan possesses a significant scientific and technical potential. Over 6 thousand scientists are working in scientific establishments and higher education institutes. Alongside pure research, applied industry science is developing, represented by design engineers, and research and exploration establishments active in the areas of geology, oil and gas exploration and processing, and material science for earthquake-resistant construction. The spectrum of scientific research includes such promising developments and methods as the techniques of earthquake forecasting, theory and practice of nature management under arid conditions, research and development of alternative energy sources, and equipment and technology for chemical processing of raw materials.

The formation of the national system of industrial property in Turkmenistan started with the adoption of the Patent Law on October 1, 1993. The Law regulates relations of property and associated personal non-property relations that arise out of the creation, legal protection and use of inventions, industrial designs, trademarks and service marks.

Turkmenistan has been a member of WIPO since March 1, 1995, and is a party to the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property and the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT). It was the first state to accede to the Eurasian Patent Convention, thus initiating the formation of a new inter-state system of common patent invention protection. Today Turkmenistan is a full member of this Convention, with its own representatives in the Administrative Council, and also with national patent attorneys registered as Eurasian patent attorneys.

From 1995 to 1999 the Patent Office received 579 patent applications. Of these, 271 were filed by national and 308 by foreign applicants. Requests to re-register 331 former USSR inventions were also received. These included 280 from national applicants and 51 from foreign ones. Patent applications and requests received totaled 910. Information on the number of applications and requests for the period from 1995 to 1999 is given in the table format.

Information on applications for new inventions filed and requests for re-registration of inventions

Name of indicators	Number by years
	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	Total
Applications for inventions received.
of these:	147	230	102	53	47	579
from national applicants	72	63	52	41	43	271
from foreign applicants	75	167	50	12	4	308
including:
according to the PCT procedure	7	145	39	5	2	168
Requests received for the granting of a Turkmenistan patent on the base of titles of protection of the former USSR.	243	88	102	53	47	331
Of these:
from national applicants	198	82	-	-	-	280
from foreign applicants	45	6	-	-	-	51
Total number:	390	318	102	53	47	910

The granting of patents and provisional patents of Turkmenistan

	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999
Patents for inventions	1	228	92	93	68
Including:
to national applicants	1	228	31	2
to foreign applicants		-	61	91	68
Patents for inventions	1	9	113	55	27
Including:
to national applicants	1	9	103	55	27
to foreign applicants	-	-	10	-

Seminars organized by the Patent Office under the Cabinet of Ministers of Turkmenistan during 1996-1999

�	Name of seminar	Dates	Participants (type and number)	Speakers and lecturers	Seminar co-organizers
1.	Regional seminar on licensing	May 2-3, 1996	Staff of patent offices and patent attorneys of the CIS countries 68 persons	R.A. Agabaev and WIPO lecturers Bojan Pretnar, Heinz Bardehle, Marion Guth, and Bobrovszky Jeno	WIPO
2.	Regional seminar on the licensing of patents and transfer of technologies	May 6-8, 1996	Staff of patent offices and patent attorneys of the CIS countries 68 persons	EPO lecturers Jacques-Henri Gaudin and Miguel Herrera	EPO
3.	National seminar �Modern methods of patenting inventions and the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT)�	April 21-24, 1997	Employees of patent services, Ministries and Departments and Offices, patent attorneys and employees of Turkmenpatent 55 persons	WIPO employee V.E. Troussov	WIPO
4.	National seminar �Protection of industrial property in the market economy�	April 22-23, 1998	Entrepreneurs, bank employees, employees of the Department for the support of private enterprise, patent attorneys, and the employees of Turkmenpatent 86 persons	EPO lecturers Ted Blake, Peter Kolker and Mark Robinson	EPO and the Department for the support of private enterprise under the Cabinet of Ministers of Turkmenistan
5.	National seminar �The Madrid system of international registration of trademarks�	December 22-23, 1998	Employees of Turkmenpatent and patent attorneys 32 persons	WIPO employees Bruno Machado and Boris Khabirov	WIPO
6.	National seminar �Legal protection and the use of trademarks�	June 3-4, 1999	Employees of patent services, ministries, and Departments and Offices, entrepreneurs 70 persons	Turkmenpatent lecturers F. Guseynova, N. Sonin and O. Kirsta	Department for the support of private enterprise
7.	National seminar �Private enterprise and trademark as a tool for the sale of products and services�	July 27, 1999	Employees of patent services, ministries, Offices and Departments, and entrepreneurs 70 persons	Turkmenpatent lecturers F. Guseynova, N. Sonin, and O. Kirsta	Department for the support of private enterprise

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