Turkmenistan and World Intellectual Property Organization – the legal basics for cooperation

The policy pursued by our Hero Arkadag, which is aimed at the widespread introduction and use of advanced information and communication technologies in the national economy, is also of great importance in international cooperation. At present, the World Intellectual Property Organization is the United Nations Office on the Issue of Intellectual Property Use as the Key to Promoting Innovation and Creativity in Science and Economics.

If we look at the history of the organization, the World Intellectual Property Organization was established in 1967 by a special resolution of the United Nations General Assembly. Every year on April 26, the World Day of Intellectual Property, which is one of the largest celebrations in our state, is widely celebrated.

Turkmenistan’s national intellectual property system has been in operation since 1993. The adoption of a number of new legislative acts in this area since 2008 and the establishment of the State Service for Intellectual Property by the Decree of the President of Turkmenistan in 2013, as well as the adoption of the 2015 Program for the Development of the Intellectual Property System of Turkmenistan for 2015-2020 This is a clear indication that the country is paying close attention to the development of this system.

Since the inception of the National Intellectual Property System, Turkmenistan has made great strides in international cooperation in the field of international conventions and agreements on intellectual property. Turkmenistan is a member of 12 international conventions and agreements on intellectual property.

1. World Intellectual Property Convention;
2. Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property;
3. Patent Cooperative Agreement;
4. Eurasian Patent Convention on Inventions;
5. Protocol to the Madrid Agreement on International Trademark Registration;
6. Strasbourg Agreement on International Patent Classification;
7. Locarn Agreement on International Classification of Industrial Designs;
8. Nissa Agreement on International Classification of Goods and Services for Trademark Registration;
9. Vienna Convention on the International Classification of Trademarks;
10. Nairobi Convention on the Protection of Olympic Symbols;
11. Geneva Declaration of the Hague Agreement on International Registration of Industrial Designs;
12. Berne Convention for the Protection of Literature and Art.

The work carried out in this area is carried out in accordance with a number of national laws and international treaties signed by our state, which ensures the legal protection of industrial property.

Gulsenem Hommadova,

Teacher of the department
International law and comparative law
of Institute of International Relations
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan.

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