Law on trademarks, service marks and places of origin of commodities.

The present Law regulates relations connected with registration, legal protection and utilization of trademarks, service marks and places of origin of commodities. Trademarks and service marks are symbols indicating commodities and services of legal person or enterprise without the status of legal person, or an individual entrepreneur shall be distinguished from the commodities of the same type and services of other legal persons, enterprises without the status of legal person, and individual entrepreneurs (art. 1). Legal protection of trademarks shall be carried out on the grounds of state registration in conformity with the present Law and international agreements concluded by the Republic of Armenia (art. 2). Verbal, graphic, volumetrical and other symbols and combinations thereof may be registered as trademarks. Trademark can be registered in any colour or any colour combination (art. 5). In the register of trademarks shall be recorded the following data : description of trademark, owner’s personal data, priority and registration date, the list of commodities to which the trademark is applicable, and also other data pertaining to the registration of trademark in conformity with the list validated by the authorized institution (art. 14). The registration of trademark shall be valid for the period of ten years from the date of presentation of application to the authorized institution. The validity can be extended for other ten years in conformity with the owner’s application presented in the course of the last year of the current registration (art. 16). Application form for the registration of trademark and obtaining the right of use of thereof shall specify only one designation of commodity for which registration is requested and shall indicate the place of manufacturing (geographical area) (art. 32). Preventive labelling shall authorize the owner of trademark to put along with the registration mark the wording «Registered place of origin of commodity» (art. 41). The Law consists of 3 Sections composed of 50 articles.