Intellectual Property Laws of Turkmenistan and state bodies of intellectual property system

Government: Unitary presidential republic

Area: 491,210 km²

Population: 5.6 mln people

GDP (PPP): $113 billion

Currency: Turkmen new manat (TMT)

Time zone: UTC+5

• Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works;

• International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, etc.

• Civil Code of Turkmenistan;

• Law On Copyright and Related Rights;

• Law On Scientific Intellectual Property;

• Law On Publishing, etc.

• Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT);

• Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs;

• Strasbourg Agreement Concerning the International Patent Classification;

• Locarno Agreement Establishing an International Classification for Industrial Designs;

• Nice Agreement Concerning the International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of the Registration of Marks;

• Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks;

• Eurasian Patent Convention;

• Agreement concerning the Measures of Protection of Industrial Property and Establishing the Interstate Council for the Industrial Property, etc.

• Law On Trademarks, Service Marks and Appellations of Origin;

• Law On the Legal Protection of Algorithms, Electronic Computer Programs, Databases and Topographies of Integrated Circuits;

• Law On Legal Protection of New Varieties of Plants;

• Customs Code of Turkmenistan;

• Law On Seed Production;

• Law On Foreign Investments, etc.

Telephone number: +993 (12) 39 46 86

E-mail: tmpatent@online.tm

Website: minfin.gov.tm