LAW OF TURKMENISTAN

of June 8, 2019 No. 142-VI

About names of places of goods origin

This Law governs the relations arising in the field of legal protection and use of names of places of goods origin.

Chapter I. General provisions

Article 1. Basic concepts

In this Law the following basic concepts are used:

1) counterfeit goods – goods, their labels and packaging on which the registered name of the place of goods origin or similar to it to extent of mixing designation is illegally used;

2) examination – the procedure of consideration by authorized body in the field of legal protection of names of places of goods origin – Public service on intellectual property of the Ministry of Finance and Economy of Turkmenistan of the request, and also other documents relating to state registration of the name of the place of goods origin and right to use by the specified name or rights to use by earlier registered name of the place of goods origin;

3) the name of the place of goods origin – the designation representing or containing modern or historical, the official or unofficial, complete or reduced name of geographical object, and also the designation derivative of this name and which became known as a result of its use concerning goods which special characteristics only or are mainly determined by environment and (or) ethnographic factors, characteristic of this geographical object. The name of geographical object which entered the general use in Turkmenistan as the designation of goods of certain type which is not connected with the place of its production is not recognized the name of the place of goods origin;

4) the certificate on right to use by the name of the place of goods origin (further – the certificate) – the document certifying right to use by the name of the place of goods origin;

5) the State register of names of places of goods origin (further – the State register) – the document containing data on names of places of goods origin and rights to use by them, information on special characteristics of goods for which the name of the place of goods origin, and also other data relating to state registration of names of places of goods origin is registered;

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