As Ulan Melisbek informed the press service of the State Intellectual Property Service shortly after appearance of information of his being in the territory of the U.S. Embassy.

“After appearing of this message on websites of the Kyrgyz Republic’s news agencies, I started receiving phone calls with questions about whether I intend to ask for political asylum - said the Director of Kyrgyzpatent. - In this connection I would like to make a statement that I do not intend to leave the country and will stay at my place until it will be considered reasonable.”

Today on April 10, 2010 around noon, Director of the State Intellectual Property Service, Mr. Ulan Melisbek was attacked. This information became known from his phone call to Kyrgypatent staff.

Ulan Melisbek, Director of the State Intellectual Property Service disseminated a statement on his readiness to resign due to the recent events in the country. Below is the publication of his statement.

«Dear compatriots, colleagues, friends!

Please let me address to you in these turbulent and challenging times and share my thoughts and feelings about the ongoing events in the country.

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

Deficiency of law and defects of enforcement policy create a serious barrier for intellectual property effective protection. These issues were discussed by participants of the Round Table on the National Strategy development in the field of IP, which was held in the Conference hall of the State Customs Service on March 2, 2010.

On March 2, 2010 in the course of weekly visit of the WIPO delegation represented by Mr. Ron Marchant, the WIPO independent consultant, Mr. Michal Svantner, Director of the Division for Certain Countries in Europe and Asia (WIPO) and Mr. Alexandr Matveev, Senior Consultant of the Division, the excursion of Kyrgyzpatent buildings for the delegation was arranged. Director Ulan Melisbek, Mr. Daniar Sydykov, Deputy Director, and Mr. Bakyt Kenenbaev, State Secretary were the guides.

On March 1, 2010 the delegation from the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and Kyrgyzpatent leadership met with Mr. Uchkunbek Tashbaev, Deputy Head of the Central Agency for Development, Investments and Innovations.

The WIPO delegation was represented by Mr. Michal Svantner, Director of the Division for Certain Countries in Europe and Asia, Mr. Ron Marchant, Independent Consultant and Mr. Alexander Matveev, Senior Counselor of the Division for Certain Countries in Europe and Asia.

The fact that the rules of outdated Soviet legislation, which we got together with the independence have 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.