Based on the administrative regulations for the provision of state services for the registration of trademarks and service marks, images, words, signs in a specific form, and other signs or their combination in any one color or different colors may be registered as trademarks.

         Which trademarks are not registered?

     signs with images of state emblems, flags, and state awards;

     official names of states, abbreviated or full names of international or intergovernmental organizations;

     official control, guarantee stamps, and hall-marks, seals;

     images of distinguishing and differentiating marks of state services used in the Republic of Uzbekistan;

     signs consisting only of a surname;

     generally accepted abbreviated names and abbreviations of organizations and sectors;

     signs that have come into common use as symbols for a certain type of goods;

     signs that are generally recognized symbols and terms;

     names of goods;

     signs indicating the raw material and composition;

     signs indicating the weight, volume, price, or date of production of goods;

generic names;

     certification marks registered in the established manner;

     signs repeating industrial designs when the right to them in the Republic of Uzbekistan belongs to other persons;

     signs repeating the names of famous scientific works, literature, and art works, their characters or phrases, works of art or scenes from them without obtaining the consent of the person who owns the copyright or their legal successors (heirs).

What requirements should be in the application?

         The application includes:

     an application for trademark registration;

     an image of the sign indicated in the application;

     a list of goods for which trademark registration is requested, grouped in accordance with the International Classification of Goods and Services (NICE) for the registration of marks.

         When the application relates to a collective mark, an agreement on the use of the collective mark between the participants of the association of legal and (or) natural persons is attached to the application.

         In providing state services, a patent duty is paid in the amount provided for in the Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan "On state duty" and is distributed in the manner established by legislative acts. Payment of the patent duty is carried out in electronic form through a unified billing system.