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Laws	Constitution / Basic Law (Date of current version) Constitution of the Republic of Uzbekistan (2011) Main IP Laws: enacted by the Legislature (Date of current version) Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan No. ZRU-312 of December 26, 2011 Amending Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Uzbekistan for the Purpose of Improving the Intellectual Property Legal Framework (2011) Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan No. 267-II of August 30, 2001 on Trademarks, Service Marks and Appellations of Origin (as last amended by the Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan No. ZRU-312 of December 26, 2011) (2011) Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan No. 218-II of May 12, 2001 on the Legal Protection of Topographies of Integrated Microcircuits (as last amended by the Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan No. ZRU-312 of December 26, 2011) (2011) Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan No. 1060-XII of May 6, 1994 on the Legal Protection of Computer Programs and Databases (as last amended by the Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan No. 312 of December 26, 2011) (2011) Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan No. 1062-XII of May 6, 1994 on Inventions, Utility Models and Industrial Designs (as last amended by Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan No. ZRU-312 of December 26, 2011) (2011) Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan No. ZRU-111 of September 19, 2007 Amending the Law on Trademarks, Service Marks and Geographical Indications (2007) Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan No. ZRU-51 of September 18, 2006 on Trade Names (2006) Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan No. 42 of July 20, 2006 on Copyright and Related Rights (2006) Consolidated Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan No. 210-I of August 30, 1996 on Selection Achievements (approved by the Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan No. 395-II of August 29, 2002) (2002) IP-related Laws: enacted by the Legislature (Date of current version) Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan No.69-II of May 25, 2000 on the Guarantees of Freedom of Entrepreneurial Activity (as consolidated by the Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan No. ZRU-328 of May 2, 2012) (2012) Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan No. ZRU-319 of November 14, 2011 on Competition (2011) Civil Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan 1996 (Extract) (as last amended by the Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan No. 312 of December 26, 2011) (2011) Tax Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan 2007 (Extract) (2007) Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan No. 541-I of December 26, 1997 on Mass Media (Extract) (as last amended by the Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan No.78 of January 15, 2007) (2007) Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan No. 267-I of August 29, 1996 on Seed Culturing (as last amended by the Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan No. ZRU-31 of April 6, 2006) (2007) Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan on Administrative Responsibility 1997 (as last amended by the Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan No.114 of September 20, 2007) (Extract) (2007) Penal Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan 1994 (as last amended by the Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan No. 93 of April 25, 2007) (2007) Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan No. 260-II of August 29, 2001 on Stock Exchange (as last amended by the Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan No. 59 of October 10,2006 (Extract) (2006) Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan No. 723-I of December 25, 1998 on Advertising (as last amended by the Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan No. 59 of October 10, 2006) (Extract) (2006) Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan No. 719-I of December 24, 1998 on Investment Activity (as last amended by the Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan No. 59 of October 10, 2006) (2006) Customs Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan 1997 (as last amended by the Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan No. 59 of October 10, 2006) (Extract) (2006) Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan No. 165-I of December 21, 1995 on Tribal Animal Breeding (as last amended by the Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan No.482-II of April 25, 2003) (2003) Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan No. 274-I of August 30, 1996 on Publishing Activities (as last amended by the Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan No. 447-II of December 13, 2002) (Extract) (2002) Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan No. 152-XII of October 31, 1990 on Property in the Republic of Uzbekistan (as last amended by the Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan No. 447-II of December 13, 2002) (Extract) (2002) Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan No. 400-I of April 24, 1997 on Guarantees and Freedom of Access to Information (as last amended by the Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan No.175-II of December 15, 2000) (Extract) (2000) Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan No. 609-I of April 30, 1998 on Foreign Investments (as last amended by the Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan No. 832-I of August 20, 1999) (1999) Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan No. 402-I of April 24, 1997 on the Protection of Professional Activity of the Journalist (Extract) (1997) IP Laws: issued by the Executive (Date of current version) Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers No.166 of June 8, 2011 on Adopting Measures for Organizing the Activity of the Agency for Intellectual Property of the Republic of Uzbekistan (2011) Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers No. 204 of September 9, 2008 Amending Certain Resolutions of the Government of the Republic of Uzbekistan (2008) Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers No. 209 of June 14, 2002 concerning the Organizational Structure and Functions of the State Patent Office of the Republic of Uzbekistan (as last amended by the Resolution of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan No. 853 of May 1, 2008) (Annex) (2008) Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers No. 263 of December 21, 2006 concerning the Establishment of Rates for the International Registration of Trademarks as in accordance with the Protocol to the Madrid Agreement concerning the International Registration of Marks of June 27, 1989 (2006) Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan No. 436 of August 7, 2006 concerning Measures for Improving Coordination and Management of Scientific and Technological Developments (2006)

Implementing Rules/Regulations	Intellectual Property (Date of current version) Resolution of the State Committee for State Property Management of the Republic of Uzbekistan No. 1953-1 of June 18, 2012 on Repealing the Resolution concerning the Approval of the Rules on Valuation of Subjects of Intellectual Property (2012) Resolution of the State Committee for State Property Management of the Republic of Uzbekistan No. 2371 of June 18, 2012 concerning the Approval of National Standards for Property Valuation No. 13 'Valuation of Intellectual Property' (2012) Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers No. 72 of March 15, 2012 on the Implementation of the Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan No. ZRU-312 of December 26, 2011 Amending Certain Legislative Acts the Republic of Uzbekistan for the Purpose of Improving the Intellectual Property Legal Framework (2012) Instruction No. 1361-2 of September 30, 2011 of the Director General of the Intellectual Property Agency of the Republic of Uzbekistan on Amendments to the Rules on Filing and Examination of Applications for Obtaining a Patent on a Utility Model (2011) Order No. 1402-1 of September 30, 2011 of the Director General of the Intellectual Property Agency of the Republic of Uzbekistan on Amendments to the Rules on Filing and Examination of Applications for the Registration of Computer Programs and Databases (2011) Order No. 1443-1 of September 30, 2011 of the Director General of the Intellectual Property Agency of the Republic of Uzbekistan on Amendments to the Rules on Filing and Examination of Applications for a Patent on a Selection Achievement (2011) Order No. 1481-1 of September 30, 2011 of the Director General of the Intellectual Property Agency of the Republic of Uzbekistan on Amendments to Rules on the Registration of Agreements Assigning the Exclusive Right to Inventions, Utility Models, Industrial Designs, Selection Achievements, Trademarks, Service Marks, License Agreements Granting the Right to Use, and Agreements on the Absolute or Partial Assignment of the Exclusive Right to Integrated Microcircuit Topologies and Assignment of the Exclusive Right to Computer Programs and Databases (2011) Order No. 1629-1 of September 30, 2011 of the Director General of the Intellectual Property Agency of the Republic of Uzbekistan on Amendments to the Rules on Filing and Examination of the Application by the Patent Owner for Granting of the Right to the Open License and the Publication of Information on such an Application (2011) Order No. 1678-1 of September 30, 2011 of the Director General of the Agency for Intellectual Property of the Republic of Uzbekistan on Amendments to the Rules concerning the Extension of the Term of Patents on Utility Models, Industrial Designs and Patents relating to Medications and Pesticides (2011) Order No. 1793-1 of September 30, 2011 of the Director General of the Intellectual Property Agency of the Republic of Uzbekistan on Amending the Rules concerning the Extension of the Term of the Patent on the Selective Achievement in the Republic of Uzbekistan (2011) Order No. 1889-1 of September 30, 2011 of the Director General of the Intellectual Property Agency on Amending the Order concerning the Approval of Rules on Filing of Appeals to the Board of Appeal of the State Patent Office of the Republic of Uzbekistan (2011) Order No. 1937-1 of September 30, 2011 of the Director General of the Intellectual Property Agency of the Republic of Uzbekistan on Amendments to the Rules on Restoration of Lapsed Patents (2011) Order No. 1988-1 of September 30, 2011 of the Director General of the Intellectual Property Agency of the Republic of Uzbekistan on Amendments to the Rules of Filing and Examination of Applications for Registration of Trademarks and Service Marks (2011) Rules No. 1988 of July 29, 2009 on Filing and Examination of Applications for the Registration of Trademarks and Service Marks (2009) Rules No.1397 of April 7, 2009 on Restoration of Lapsed Patents (2009) Rules No. 1889 of January 24, 2009 on Filing of Appeals to the Board of Appeal of the State Patent Office of the Republic of Uzbekistan (2009) Regulation on Official Publications (2009) Requirements for Designing of the Official Bulletin of the State Patent Agency and Documents for Publication (2009) Rules No. 1329-2 of March 7, 2009 on Filing and Examination of Applications for Obtaining a Patent (2009) Resolution on Official Publications issued by the State Patent Office of the Republic of Uzbekistan (Annex to the Order No. 72 of September 11, 2008 of the Director of the Patent Agency) (2008) Order on the Procedure for Granting of Patents, Selection Achievements, Certificates of Registration for Trademarks, Geographical Indications, Computer Programs, Databases and Topologies of Integrated Circuits (2008) Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers No. 89 of May 7, 2008 Amending Certain Resolutions of the Government of the Republic of Uzbekistan (2008) Rules on Extension of the Term of the Patent on the Plant Selective Achievement in the Republic of Uzbekistan (2008) Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers No.10 of January 19, 2008 concerning Minimal Rates of Remuneration for Certain Uses of Literary and Artistic Works (2008) Rules No. 1402 of September 6, 2004 on Filing and Examination of Applications for the Registration of Computer Programs and Databases (2008) Rules on Records of Well-known Trademarks in the Republic of Uzbekistan (2007) Rules on the Procedure for Issuance of a Certificate for a Well-known Trademark (2007) Rules on the Records of Inventions in the State Register (2007) Rules No. 1678 of May 5, 2007 on Extension of Terms of Utility Models, Industrial Designs and Patents for Medications and Pesticides (2007) Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers No.8 of January 8, 2007 on Approval of Remuneration Rates relating to Copyright and other Types of Remuneration (2007) Rules No. 1185 of October 1, 2002 on Filing and Examination of Applications for the Registration of Geographical Indications (as last amended by the Order No. 72 of October 17, 2007 of the Director General of the Patent Office) (2007) Rules No. 1629 of October 14, 2006 on Filing and Examination of Applications for Granting the Right to Open License and Procedure for the Publication of Applications (2006) Regulation concerning the State Fund of Patent Documentation of the State Patent Office of the Republic of Uzbekistan (Annex to the Order No. 56 of July 17, 2006 of the Director General of the State Patent Office) (2006) Rules concerning the Use of the State Fund of Patent Documentation of the State Patent Office of the Republic of Uzbekistan (Annex to the Order No. 56 of July 17, 2006 of the Director General of the Patent Office) (2006) Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers No. 65 of April 20, 2006 Approving the Regulation on Patent Fees (2006) Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers No. 298 of July 1, 2003 Approving the Regulation concerning the Board of Appeal of the State Patent Office of the Republic of Uzbekistan and the Regulation concerning Patent Attorneys (as last amended by the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers No. 65 of April 20, 2006) (2006) Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers No. 209 of June 14, 2002 concerning the Organizational Structure and Functions of the State Patent Office of the Republic of Uzbekistan (as last amended by the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers No. 65 of April 20, 2006) (2006) Instructions on the Revocation Procedure of Patents, Selection Achievement Patents and Registration Certificates for Trademarks, Geographical Indications and Topologies of Integrated Circuits (2005) Rules No. 1481 of June 17, 2005 on the Registration of Agreements Assigning the Exclusive Right to Inventions, Utility Models, Industrial Designs, Selection Achievements, Trademarks, Service Marks, License Agreements Granting the Right to Use, and Agreements on the Absolute or Partial Assignment of the Exclusive Right to Integrated Microcircuit Topologies and to the Computer Programs and Databases (2005) Rules on Records of Topographies of Integrated Circuits in the State Register (2005) Rules on Records of Patent Attorneys in the State Register (2005) Rules on Granting of the Patent Duplicate, Patent Duplicate for Selection Achievement, the Registration Certificate of a Trademark, Geographical Indications, Computer Programs, Databases or Topologies of Integrated Microcircuits (Annex to the Order No. 35 of April 11, 2005 of the Director General of the Patent Office) (2005) Rules on Records of Computer Programs in the State Register (2005) Rules on Records of Databases in the State Register (2005) Rules on Records of Geographical Indications in the State Register (2005) Rules on Records of Trademarks in the State Register (2005) Rules No. 1443 of January 14, 2005 on Filing and Examination of Applications for the Grant of Plant Selection Achievement Patent (2005) Rules No. 1361 of May 20, 2004 on Filing and Examination of Applications for the Registration of Industrial Designs (2004) Rules No. 1343 of April 29, 2004 on Filing and Examination of Applications for Obtaining a Patent on a Utility Model (2004) Rules concerning the Procedure of Attestation and Registration of Patent Attorneys (2003) Rules on Records of Animal Breeds in the State Register (2003) Rules on Records of Industrial Designs in the State Register (2003) Rules on Records of Plant Varieties in the State Register (2003) Rules on Records of Utility Models in the State Register (2003) List of Botanical and Zoological Sorts and Kinds of Plant Varieties and Animal Breeds Protected in the Republic of Uzbekistan (2003) Rules No.1168 of August 27, 2002 on Filing of Applications for the Registration of Topologies of Integrated Microcircuits and the Procedure of Examination by the State (2002)

Treaty Approvals	Laws / Decrees (Date of current version) Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan on the Accession of Uzbekistan to the Protocol to the Madrid Agreement concerning the International Registration of Marks, signed at Madrid on June 27, 1989 (2006) Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan on the Denunciation of the Madrid Agreement concerning the International Registration of Marks signed in Madrid on April 14, 1891 (2006) Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan on the Accession of Uzbekistan to the Locarno Agreement Establishing an International Classification for Industrial Designs, signed in Locarno on October 8, 1968 (2006) Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan on the Accession of Uzbekistan to the Patent Law Treaty, adopted by the Diplomatic Conference in Geneva on 1 June 2000 (2006)

IP Legal Literature	Announcement on the Extension of the Time Limits Indicated in the Announcement on the Protection of Industrial Property in Uzbekistan (1994) Announcement on the Protection of Industrial Property in Uzbekistan (1993)

Treaty Membership	WIPO-Administered Treaties (Entry into force of the Treaty for the Contracting Party) Summary Table of Membership of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the Treaties Administered by WIPO, plus UPOV, WTO and UN Singapore Treaty on the Law of Trademarks ... Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks (December 27, 2006) Locarno Agreement Establishing an International Classification for Industrial Designs (July 19, 2006) Patent Law Treaty (July 19, 2006) Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works (April 19, 2005) Strasbourg Agreement Concerning the International Patent Classification (October 12, 2002) Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Micro-organisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure (January 12, 2002) Nice Agreement Concerning the International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of the Registration of Marks (January 12, 2002) Trademark Law Treaty (September 4, 1998) Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization (December 25, 1991) Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property (December 25, 1991) Patent Cooperation Treaty (December 25, 1991) IP-related Multilateral Treaties (Entry into force of the Treaty for the Contracting Party) Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities ... WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (August 13, 2012) Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (April 29, 2008) Helsinki Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (December 3, 2007) Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (February 16, 2005) International Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) (November 14, 2004) United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (December 1, 1997) International Convention on the Harmonization of Frontier Controls of Goods (February 27, 1997) Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property (June 15, 1996) Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict (May 21, 1996) Convention on Transit Trade of Land-locked States (March 8, 1996) International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (December 28, 1995) Convention on Biological Diversity (October 17, 1995) Convention (I) for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field (April 8, 1994) Convention (II) for the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea (April 8, 1994) Convention (IV) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War (April 8, 1994) Protocol (I) Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the protection of victims of international armed conflicts (April 8, 1994) Protocol (II) Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of Non-International Armed Conflicts (April 8, 1994) United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (March 21, 1994) Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage (September 1, 1991) IP Regional Treaties (Entry into force of the Treaty for the Contracting Party) Agreement on the Producing of a Regional Informational Patent Publication on CD-ROM (May 22, 2001) Agreement on Mutual Preservation of Inter-State Secrets in the Area of Legal Protection of Inventions (January 31, 2000) Agreement on Measures for the Prevention and Repression of the Use of False Trademarks and Geographical Indications (June 4, 1999) Agreement on Cooperation in the Repression of Offenses in the Field of Intellectual Property (January 19, 1999) Agreement on Cooperation in the Field of the Protection of Copyright and Neighboring Rights (May 6, 1995) Agreement concerning the Measures of Protection of Industrial Property and Establishing the Interstate Council for the Industrial Property (March 12, 1993) Regional Economic Integration Treaties (Entry into force of the Treaty for the Contracting Party) Free Trade Agreement between Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Kazakhstan, the Russian Federation, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and the Kyrgyz Republic (December 30, 1994) IP-relevant Bilateral Treaties (Entry into force of the Treaty for the Contracting Party) Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Uzbekistan and the Government of the Republic of Azerbaijan on Cooperation in the Field of Protection of Industrial Property ... Agreement between the State Patent Office of the Republic of Uzbekistan and the Patent Office of the Republic of Latvia on exchange of information in the field of protection of industrial property rights (October 6, 2008) Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Uzbekistan and the Government of the Russian Federation on Mutual Protection of Rights of Intellectual Property used and received in the Course of Bilateral Military-Technical Cooperation (November 28, 2007) Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Government of the Republic of Uzbekistan on cooperation in the Field of Protection of Intellectual Property Rights (March 20, 2006) Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Uzbekistan and the Government of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of Intellectual Property Rights (November 8, 1999) The Partnership and Cooperation Agreement Establishing a Partnership between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Uzbekistan, of the other part (July 1, 1999) Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Uzbekistan and the Government of the Republic of Turkey for Protection of Copyrights and Similar Rights (April 13, 1998) Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Uzbekistan and the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine in the Field of Protection of Intellectual Property Rights (February 19, 1998) Agreement between Government of the Republic of Uzbekistan and Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the Field of Industrial Property Protection (June 2, 1997) Agreement between Government of the Republic of Uzbekistan and Government of the Republic of Kyrgyzstan in the Field of Industrial Property Protection (December 24, 1996) Agreement between the Patent Office of the Republic of Uzbekistan and the Office of Industrial Property of the Czech Republic on Cooperation in the Field of Industrial Property (November 27, 1996) Agreement between the Government of the French Republic and the Government of the Republic of Uzbekistan on the Reciprocal Promotion and Protection of Investments (June 17, 1996) Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Uzbekistan and the Government of Georgia in the Field of Industrial Property Protection (May 28, 1996) Agreement between the Government of the Russian Federation and the Government of the Republic of Uzbekistan on Cooperation in the Field of Industrial Property (July 27, 1995) Agreement between the State Patent Office of the Republic of Belarus and the State Patent Office of the Republic of Uzbekistan on Cooperation in the Protection of Industrial Property (January 31, 1995) Agreement between National Patent Information Centre Republic of Tajikistan and the State Patent Office Republic of Uzbekistan on Cooperation in the Protection of Industrial Property (November 1, 1994) Trade and Economic Cooperation Agreement between Switzerland and Uzbekistan (July 22, 1994)

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