Title: | Article 234 of the Criminal Code (KZ-1) of 01/09/2008 |
Field of IP: | Patents |
Type of flexibility: | Criminal sanctions for patent infringement |
Summary table: |
Unauthorised Use of Another's Patent or Topography
Article 234
(1) Whoever, in performing business operations, uses a patent protected by another person without due authorisation or additional protection certificate, or a registered topography of the circuit of a semiconductor, or a new plant variety, protected by a plant variety right, shall be punished to imprisonment up to three years.
(2) Products manufactured on the basis of unauthorised use from the preceding paragraph shall be seized.