The Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan on Administrative Responsibility (CAR) has been amended and supplemented by the following rules regarding the violation of rights to intellectual property.
Article 177 of Code on Administrative Responsibility is presented as follows:
Illegal use of someone else's trademark, service mark, appellation of origin or company name
Illegal use of someone else's trademark, service mark, appellation of origin of goods or designations similar to the degree of confusion to them for similar goods (services) or illegal use of someone else's company name –
entails the imposition of a fine on citizens from five to ten, and on officials - from ten to twenty minimum wages.
The same offenses committed repeatedly within a year after the application of an administrative penalty, –
entail the imposition of a fine on citizens from ten to twenty, and on officials - from twenty to thirty minimum wages».
Administrative liability is introduced for violation of copyright and related rights, as well as rights to an invention, utility model and industrial design
Article 177-1. Infringement of copyright and related rights
Illegal use of works or objects of related rights, as well as reproduction, distribution, bringing to public knowledge of counterfeit copies of works or objects of related rights or indication of false information on copies of works or objects of related rights about their manufacturers, about the places of their production, as well as about copyright and related rights holders –
imposes a fine on citizens from one to five, and on officials - from five to ten minimum wages with the confiscation of counterfeit copies of works and objects of related rights, as well as materials and equipment used for their reproduction and distribution, and other instruments of committing the offense.
The same offenses committed repeatedly within a year after the application of an administrative penalty, –
impose a fine on citizens from five to ten, and on officials - from ten to twenty minimum wages with confiscation of counterfeit copies of works and objects of related rights, as well as materials and equipment used for their reproduction and distribution, and other instruments of committing the offense.
Article 177-2. Violation of the rights to the invention, utility model and industrial design
Unauthorized production, use, import, offer for sale, sale, other introduction into civil circulation or storage for this purpose of a product or product containing the corresponding patented invention, utility model, industrial design, as well as the application of a method protected by a patent for an invention or introduction into civil circulation or storage for this purpose of a product manufactured directly by the method protected by a patent for an invention, –
entail the imposition of a fine on citizens from five to ten, and on officials - from ten to twenty minimum wages.
The same offenses committed repeatedly within a year after the application of an administrative penalty, –
entail the imposition of a fine on citizens from ten to twenty, and on officials - from twenty to thirty minimum wages.
The above changes and additions come into force within three months from the date of their official publication (dated 03.05.2019)
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