The question on a special reward establishing of the State Intellectual Property Service for companies and organizations, which show the greatest activity at applications filing for patents, promote domestic trademarks to foreign market and popularize knowledge in the field of IP among youth, was discussed in the regular brainstorming in Kyrgyzpatent.

This question was considered on April 1 during the work meeting of Mr. Ulan Melisbek, Director of the State Intellectual Property Service with patent attorneys.

Mr. Ulan Melisbek, Director of the State Intellectual Property Service of the Kyrgyz Republic, by invitation of the Project “Open Kyrgyzstan” will answer to your questions, concerning to intellectual property system in Kyrgyzstan and Kyrgyzpatent activities.
You may ask your question to Mr. Ulan Melisbek on the discussion forum page of “Open Kyrgyzstan” web-site: http://j.mp/bCRZcm

The fact that the rules of outdated Soviet legislation, which we got together with the independence has to be changed, I recently witnessed myself. Imagine an employee who for seven years is registered in our office, but have actually worked for two years the longest. But even in this period actually she did nothing. Division’s task, in which she was listed, before the abolition was to review inventions for the possibility of presence of a state secret. For 20 years, by the way, in Kyrgyzstan, such a precedent has not been recorded. Thus, the employee simply did nothing.

In the 11th issue of official bulletin “Intellectual Property” November 2009 among different the patent under the applicant’s responsibility for industries design was published : “Keyboard with kyrgyz alphabet”, Mr. Nurmukamed Abdykadyrov, young businessman is an author and right holder of the patent.

How did you come up with an idea for such keyboard?

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:

The Round Table on “kg” domain zone administration, which took place last week, was organized by the National Alliance of Business Association (NABA) and ended up with a great discomfiture. Mr. George Sadowsky, the representative of ICANN – the organization managing the Internet addresses - who was invited to participate in this event, recently had to make the declaration that part of his statements during the Round Table (filtered into Kyrgyzstan’s mass media too) were misrepresented or interpreted incorrectly. Well, let’s start it step by step…

Wordplay

The Executive Workshop of the Application of Management Techniques in the Delivery of IP Services took place in Gatineau (Canada) from October 19 to 23, 2009.

The Workshop was organized by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in cooperation with the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO).

Mr. Ulan Melisbek, Director of the State Service of Intellectual Property of the Kyrgyz Republic participated in this event.

On October 13 the ninth exhibition-competition of works its students and aspirants in the National Art Academy of Kyrgyzstan opened. In the exhibition all art Bohemia were participated. Reporters of the “Vecherniy Bishkek” were invited to attend the creative action in order to find bright talents.
As usual before let interested public in, Aqsaqals started the action. But Mr. Ulan Melisbek, Head of Kyrgyzpatent was the first to have a speech, because the event was organized by this organization and provided with substantial money prize.

On October 15, 2009 Kyrgyzpatent administration met the heads of business community – members of the National Alliance for Business Associations (NABA). The topic of the meeting was the administration rights redelegation of the national domain zone “KG” to Kyrgyzpatent.