Preventive measures against trademark infringements

Our national system of intellectual property protection and enforcement is almost 30 years old!

In the beginning, the main target was to re-register the trademarks of the former Soviet Union, the registration of trademarks of both national and foreign companies started intensively in Kazakhstan.

Then as time went by, infringements appeared. These infringements included counterfeiting, illegal import of goods produced for other countries (parallel importation), use of designations confusingly similar to the registered trademarks.

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