of November 26, 1999 No. ZR-15
About patents
Accepted by National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia on October 26, 1999
This Law governs the property and personal non-property relations connected with creation, legal protection and use of the invention, useful model and industrial design (further - also object of industrial property).
1. The property and personal non-property relations connected with legal protection and use of the invention, useful model and industrial design are regulated by the Constitution of the Republic of Armenia, the Civil code of the Republic of Armenia, this Law and other legal acts.
2. If international treaties of the Republic of Armenia establish other regulations, then these regulations are applied.
1. The patent authority of the Republic of Armenia (further - Department) according to this Law accepts requests for objects of industrial property, carries out expertize of requests, grants patents, performs publishing activities on application of this Law and public information, provides legal protection of objects of industrial property, and also performs other activities provided by regulations on it.
2. Department has Appeal council which resolves the matters of argument connected with legal protection of objects of industrial property.
3. Appeal council acts on the basis of the provision approved by Department.
1. The right to the invention, useful model, industrial design is protected by the law and is confirmed by the patent.
2. The patent the exclusive right on use of object of industrial property, priority of object and authorship in respect of object makes sure.
3. The patent for the invention is effective before the expiration of 20 years from the date of application if it is issued based on examination of the invention on being (the main patent), or before the expiration of 10 years if it is issued without conducting examination of the invention in essence (provisional patent), the patent for industrial design - before the expiration of 15 years, and the patent for useful model - before the expiration of 10 years.
4. The amount of the legal protection provided by the patent for the invention and useful model is determined by their formula, and amount of the legal protection provided by the patent for industrial design - set of the essential signs displayed in photos of product (prototype, the drawing) and listed in the description of industrial design.
5. Use of inventions, useful models, the industrial designs recognized by the state confidential and the publication of information about them is performed in the procedure established by the legislation of the Republic of Armenia.
6. Useful models and industrial designs which use contradicts interests of society, the principles of humanity and morals are not subject to legal protection of the invention.
1. The invention is protected in the procedure established by the law if it is new, has inventive level and is industrially applicable (conditions of patentability of the invention).
2. The invention is considered new if it is not separate part of level of the equipment.
3. The invention has inventive level if for the specialist it explicitly does not follow from equipment level.
4. Level of the equipment includes any data on decisions (separate parts) in the field of the equipment which became public in the world to number, month, year (further - date) priority of this invention. Level of the equipment includes also essence of the inventions and useful models with earlier priority opened by the applications submitted to Department on condition of publication afterwards by Department of these requests or the patents granted on their basis.
5. Patenting is not interfered by public disclosure of essence of the invention by the author (applicant) or other person who directly or indirectly obtained from it information (this circumstance the applicant shall prove) if it is performed within 12 months preceding date of application for the invention, and in case of purchase of earlier priority - within 12 months preceding date of this priority.
6. The invention is industrially applicable if it can be made or used in the industry, agricultural industry, health care and other industries.
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The document ceased to be valid since January 9, 2005 according to item 4 of article 45 of the Law of the Republic of Armenia of December 29, 2004 No. ZR-175