We offer our skills and experience in the following fields:

It is most important that you reveal your “intellectual wealth”. We will help register and professionally protect your intellectual property, allowing you to successfully defeat unfair competition.

You can create a designated trademark for your goods and services and use it unregistered. But if you want your competitors to observe your exclusive rights, and likewise you observe theirs, trademark registration is essential. You can manage a registered trademark like any other property: in other words, it may be sold, pledged, or transferred to another person. As regards trademarks, we offer the following:

• search of registered trademarks on the National Institute of Intellectual Property database;
• drafting and submission of trademark registration applications;
• obtaining, amendment and extension of trademark certificates;
• registration of designated trademarks abroad (in signatory states of the Madrid Agreement, as well as in many other countries);
• drafting of and legal support for trademark assignment agreements, as well as licence contracts and privacy agreements;
• representation and protection of clients’ interests at the Board of Appeals of the Committee on Intellectual Property Rights.

Copyrights protect works of science, literature and art, including computer software and databases, which are used everywhere and at every minute on radio and television, in newspapers and books, in cinema, theatres and concert halls. Associated rights protect the creative products of actors, musicians, bandmasters and producers, as well as soundtracks, broadcasts and telecasts. The commercial success of a product depends on the full and proper implementation of copyrights and associated rights.  Mistakes in contracts do not only threaten a project, but can result in a company’s financial collapse. To meet these demands, we offer the following:

• deposition and registration of IP in the Committee of Intellectual Property Rights of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Kazakhstan;
• copyright registration in other countries, at the client’s discretion;
• drafting and registering of copyright agreements.

In a market economy, especially during the Government’s programme of industrial innovation established in the Republic of Kazakhstan, the introduction of new technological, pharmaceutical and other industrial products become increasingly important. The guarantee that the possessor of a new invention, utility model, industrial design and/or breeder’s rights will have exclusive rights to their IP is essential. We offer the following services:

• preliminary evaluation of the registrability of the IP;
• search of the National Institute of Intellectual Property database;
• drafting and submission of registration applications;
• obtaining of patents for utility models and breeder’s rights;
• obtaining of preliminary patents and patents for inventions and industrial designs;
• amendments to and extension of patents;
• obtaining of permits to the use of breeder’s rights;
• arrangement for patenting in any country in the world;
• registration of an international application for an invention patent, in the frame of the regional patent system under the Eurasian Patent Convention and PCT (Patent Cooperation Treatment);
• managing of PCT applications at the national stage of patenting;
• drafting of and legal support for assignment agreements, as well as licence contracts and privacy agreements;
• representation and protection of clients’ interests at the Board of Appeals of the Committee on Intellectual Property Rights.

Many companies are unaware that they hold intellectual property, and therefore take no steps towards to protect it. To prevent these oversights, our highly-qualified lawyers will provide IP due diligence for your company and submit recommendations on intellectual property protection.

Know-how – procedural knowledge or the closely-held “trade secrets” relating to new technology – is an effective method used by entrepreneurs for the protection of their exclusive rights to any innovation. Unlike patenting, know-how is not limited in its terms and does not require the disclosure of any information about the innovation. As a rule, companies that hold know-how maintain a dominant position in the market. Companies can actively buy know-how on a contractual basis and have the opportunity to use recent scientific and technological advances that reap doubtless commercial benefits. In this field, we provide legal services for the use of know-how, and legal protection that includes legal advice, dispute settling, and the drafting of licence contracts and/or privacy agreements.