| Applicant | Individuals and legal entities |
| Registrable | Inventions and utility models |
| Patentability criteria | Inventions: novelty, inventive step, industrial applicability
Utility models: novelty, industrial applicability |
| Objects of invention (utility model) | Inventions: product (device, substance, strain of microorganism culture, cells of plants and animals); process (method); new use of a known product or process
Utility models: product (device, substance, strain of microorganism culture, cells of plants and animals); process (method); new use of a known product or process (except of diagnostic, therapeutic and surgical methods of treatment of humans or animals) |
| Fee reduction | Reduced in case an inventor and an applicant are the same person |
| Validity of invention (utility model) | Inventions: 20 years from the filing date
Utility models: 5 years from the filing date and reneweble within 3 years period |
| Member of | PCT, Paris Convention, Eurasian Patent Convention |
| POA |
Simply signed copy of POA is required. No notarization or legalization is needed. |
| Patent Attorney |
Reqiored for non-resident applicants/holders |
| Language | Kazakh or Russian |
