Kyrgyz Republic has ratified the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Performances and Phonograms Treaty.

Art. 11.2 of the Law No. 27 of the Kyrgyz Republic states that State control and law enforcement bodies have the right to familiarise themselves with the information considered to be commercial secrets within the limits of their competence in accordance with the powers of control and supervision granted to them by law. Access to commercial secrets is provided to the financial intelligence agency in accordance with the laws of the Kyrgyz Republic in the field of combating the financing of terrorist activity and the legalisation (laundering) of criminal proceeds.
Nevertheless, Art. 11.3 and 11.4 establish that obtaining documents containing information considered to be commercial secrets shall be carried out only with the sanction of the prosecutor or his/her deputy and in accordance with the procedure agreed with the head of the relevant institution. Obtaining documents is carried out according to the investigator's decision. Officials of these bodies shall be held liable as provided by law for disclosing information constituting a commercial secret of an economic entity.

Law No. 27 of the Kyrgyz Republic provides a framework for the effective protection of trade secrets.

There is an obligation for passive infrastructure sharing in the country to deliver telecom services to end users. It is practised in the mobile sector and in the fixed sector based on commercial agreements.

The government owns shares in certain telecom companies. In particular, Alfa Telecom is fully owned by the State of Kyrgyzstan, while for Kyrgyztelecom Open Joint Stock Company (Kyrgyz Telecom OJSC) the ownership structure consists of 77.8% owned by the Ministry of Digital Development, 12.5% by the Social Fund and the remaining shares are owned by private individuals and entities.

The Kyrgyz Republic does not mandate functional or accounting separation for operators with significant market power (SMP) in the telecom market.

The Regulation on Licensing of Activities in the Field of Electric and Postal Communications governs the procedure for issuance, reissuance, suspension, renewal and cancellation of licenses for activities in the field of electronic communications. The regime is generally non-discriminatory although the licensing regime for Kyrgyztelecom Open Joint Stock Company (Kyrgyz Telecom OJSC) has some potentially restrictive obligations contained in Law No. 31 on Electric Communication. Art. 13 of this law designates Kyrgyz Telecom OJSC as a national telecommunications operator and provider of public telecommunications services and defines obligations and rights that Kyrgyz Telecom's licence must contain. Among these are the obligation to: (i) provide public telecommunications services to any person in any part of the Kyrgyz Republic where it is technically or economically possible and to justify the refusal or inability to provide services; (ii) develop a public telecommunications network; and (iii) manage national long-distance and international telecommunications services. The licence must also establish a procedure for regulating prices for the use of networks and services provided by Kyrgyz Telecom on an exclusive basis. While Kyrgyz Telecom is currently a state-owned enterprise, Art. 16 extends these obligations also to private entities that would participate in the privatisation of Kyrgyz Telecom or other public telecommunications network operator or public telecommunications service provider owned or controlled by the state.

The Kyrgyz Republic has appended the World Trade organization (WTO) Telecom Reference Paper to its schedule of commitments.

It is reported that the government may impose investment-specific requirements including a minimum number of local seats on a board of directors, particularly for large investors. This is despite Art. 4 of Law No. 66 establishes that the Kyrgyz Republic shall not permit discrimination in respect of investors on the basis of their citizenship, nationality, language, sex, race, religion, place of their economic activity and country of origin of investors or investments.

The Ministry of Digital Development's Service for the Regulation and Supervision of the Communications Sector is the telecommunications authority of the Kyrgyz Republic. It is reported that its decision-making process is not independent of the government.

It is reported that the government may impose certain requirements to investment such as a high percentage of local workforce employment.

According to Art. 25 of Law No. 69, patent applications must be submitted in the state or official language, which can be either Kyrgyz or Russian. Foreign applicants are permitted to file their applications in another language, provided they include a translation into one of the two official languages.

The Kyrgyz Republic is a signatory of the World Trade organization (WTO) Information Technology Agreement (ITA) of 1996, but is not a signatory of its 2015 expansion (ITA II).

Art. 4.3 of Law No. 27 stipulates that, to safeguard the domestic market of the Kyrgyz Republic, foster national economic development, and support local producers, the Cabinet of Ministers may implement preferences for goods of Kyrgyz origin in public tenders. Additionally, the Cabinet has the authority to impose bans or restrictions on the admission of goods from foreign countries.