March 19, 2018 in Almaty held a visiting seminar

March 19, 2018 in Almaty at the Kazakh national University. Al-Farabi held a visiting seminar on"industrial design as an object of industrial property".

In the seminar participated the staff and students of the University in the amount of 39 people (including associate professors, candidates of Sciences, heads of departments, academic staff and employees of the branch "national Institute of intellectual property", Almaty).

As a lecturer, the chief expert of the analytical research Department on trademarks and industrial designs Aidarbekov N. T. on the topic "conditions of patentability of industrial design".

During the seminar the issues were considered:

- concept of industrial design;

- types of industrial designs;

- procedure for extending the validity of a patent for an industrial design;

- conditions of patentability of industrial design;

- examination of an application for an industrial design and others.

Also, the expert informed the participants about the forthcoming amendments and additions to some legislative acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on improvement of legislation in the field of intellectual property and the advantages of electronic filing of applications for industrial property.

At the seminar the participants were asked questions regarding the filing and examination of applications for the grant of a patent for an industrial design, the procedure for conducting business office work and correspondence with the expert organization, the procedure and the payment term for the Tariffs, etc.

At the end of the seminar, the representatives of this University thanked the organizers for the right of explanatory work on this object and wished productive work.