The Bishkek District Court sustained a claim of Kyrgyzpatent to levy royalty from the National Russian Drama Theater named after Ch. Aitmatov in the amount 63 063 soms. Thus the suit came to the end that was continuing more then one year.

The kind of new fraud has appeared in Kyrgyzstan. In many countries it would be nonsense, but here nobody wonders.

To steal and to swindle

According to the State Intellectual Property Service, some enterprising people have invented an original way to become rich just in 2004. It is linked with legislative nuances in the field of trademarks protection. As is well-known a registered trademark under its designation should not be duplicated and products under this trademark would be protected.

Los Angeles — U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials seized 252,968 DVDs with counterfeit trademarks. The manufacturer’s suggested retail price of the shipment was estimated to be more than $7.1 million and the domestic value was $204,904.

Mr. Ulan Melisbek
Director of Kyrgyzpatent

The departing year was dynamic and intensive for me. I thank this year, first of all, as during this time I have got invaluable experience of a public institution’s leader and I have seen on the inside the State problems. It was complicated, taking into consideration that I was living a lot of time away from the native country. So, this year it was often necessary to take the bull by the horns in literal sense, making the following critical actions:

Since the year beginning Kyrgyzpatent’s officials have checked for about 100 thousand items of audiovisual production, imported to the Republic from foreign countries. None licensed. It means that our Republic is a kind of free economic zone for counterfeit production. Mr. Timur Adilov, Head of the Department for Research and Examination of Products and Goods containing IP, told about changes in this field and how copyright must be protected.

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Kabar, 12 November 2009. Seminar on protection of intellectual property rights took place in “Jannat” on Wednesday, 12 November, 2009. The press office of the State Service of Intellectual Property of the Kyrgyz Republic reported on this to the Kabar news agency.

The event was organized by the State Service of Intellectual Property of Kyrgyzstan (Kyrgyzpatent) together with the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe of and the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

RAND Research Company published a report under the promising title of “Pirate movies, organized crime and terrorism”, in which the authors were trying to trace the connection between these phenomena.

However, the study as it honestly states in the beginning, was carried out with the support of the Motion Picture Association, but the authors immediately brushed off any accusations of partiality, saying that their point of view might not coincide with the one of the customer.

According to the Press Service of the Financial Police of the Kyrgyz Republic, the Financial Police has initiated a criminal proceedings against the “Torrent” Internet Resource on dissemination of unauthorized copies of original software, audio and video materials.

As it was informed earlier, Mr. Sergey Pavlovskiy, President of the Association for Intellectual Property Protection, appealed on July 19, 2009 to the Financial Police to take measures regarding the owner of the “Torrent” Internet Resource.

Market analysis of video and audio production shows that the overall level of piracy in Bishkek is 89,23% .

Mr. Ulan Melisbek, Chairman of the State Patent Service of the Kyrgyz Republic, reported about this fact during the meeting of Interdepartmental Commission on Combat against Infringements
in the field of intellectual property, which took place on August 7.

Jyrgalbek Ajimatov is the patriot of Kyrgyz language. He translates Hollywood movies into Kyrgyz by his own strength. Also Jyrgalbek is the first to gloss the Kyrgyz-English phraseological dictionary. Jyrgalbek translates everything at home using his computer; his translations of foreign movies and cartoons are very popular among the population of Osh Province. “Why can not our Kyrgyz families watch movies in native language being at their own home?” – protests the young translator. This is the main subject of the interview of “Azattyk” with Jyrgalbek.