WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION  
ORGANISATION MONDIALE DU COMMERCE  
ORGANIZACIÓN MUNDIAL DEL COMERCIO  IP/N/1/ARM/I/1/Add.1 
10 April 2008 
 (08-1665) 
Council for Trade-Related Aspects of 
Intellectual Property Rights Original:   English/ 
 anglais/ 
 inglés 
 
 
MAIN DEDICATED INT ELLECTUAL PROPERTY 
LAWS AND REGULATIONS NOTIFIED UNDER 
ARTICLE 63.2 OF THE AGREEMENT 
 
ARMENIA 
 
Addendum  
 
 
 The present document reproduces the text1 of the Law on Trademarks, Service Marks and Appellations 
of Origin, adopted on 20 March 2000, entry into force 15  April 2000, amended as of 1 January 2008, as notified 
by Armenia under Article 63.2 of the Agreement (see document IP/N/1/ARM2). 
 
Conseil des aspects des droits de propriété 
intellectuelle qui touchent au commerce  
 
PRINCIPALES LOIS ET RÉGLEMEN TATIONS CONSACRÉES À LA 
PROPRIÉTÉ INTELLECTUELLE NO TIFIÉES AU TITRE 
DE L'ARTICLE 63:2 DE L'ACCORD 
 
ARMÉNIE 
 
Addendum  
  
 Le présent document contient le texte
1 de la Loi sur les marques de fabrique ou de commerce, les 
marques de services et les appellations d'origine, adoptée le 20 mars 2000, entrée en vigueur le 15 avril 2000 et modifiée le 1
er janvier 2008, telle qu'elle a été notifiée par l'Armé nie au titre de l'article 63:2 de l'Accord (voir le 
document IP/N/1/ARM/2). 
 
Consejo de los Aspectos de los Derechos de Propiedad 
Intelectual relaciona dos con el Comercio  
 
PRINCIPALES LEYES Y REGLAMENTOS DEDICADOS A LA 
PROPIEDAD INTELECTUAL NO TIFICADOS EN VIRTUD 
DEL PÁRRAFO 2 DEL ARTÍCULO 63 DEL ACUERDO 
 
ARMENIA 
 
Addendum  
 
 
 En el presente documento se reproduce el texto1 de la Ley de marcas de fábrica o de comercio, marcas 
de servicios y denominaciones de origen, que fue adoptada el 20 de marzo de 2000, entró en vigor el 15 de abril de 2000 y ha sido modificada el 1º de enero de 2008, que Armenia ha notificado en virtud del párrafo 2 del 
artículo 63 del Acuerdo (véase el documento IP/N/1/ARM/2).
 
                                                      
 1 In English only. The text in the original language is available for consultation by interested 
Delegations at the WTO Secretariat./En anglais seulemen t.  Les délégations intéressées peuvent consulter le 
texte dans sa langue d'origine, au Secrétariat de l'OM C./En inglés solamente.  Las delegaciones interesadas 
podrán consultar en la Secretaría de la OMC el texto en su idioma original. IP/N/1/ARM/I/1/Add.1 
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Law on Trademarks, Service Marks and Appellations of Origin 
 
Section 1 - TRADEMARKS AND SERVICE MARKS  
Chapter 1 - Trademarks, Service Marks and their Legal Protection
 
Chapter 2 - Registration of a Trademark  
Chapter 3 - Collective Mark  
Chapter 4 - Use of a Trademark  
Chapter 5 - Transfer of a Trademark  
Chapter 6 - Termination of Legal Protection of a Trademark  
 Section 2 - APPELLATION OF ORIGIN  
Chapter 7 - Appellation of Origin and its Legal Protection
 
Chapter 8 - Registration and Provision of the Right to Use an Appellation  
Chapter 9 - Use of an Appellation  
Chapter 10 - Termination of Lega l Protection of an Appellation  
 
Section 3 - FINAL PROVISIONS  
Chapter 11 - Final Provisions  
  
Section 1 - TRADEMARKS AND SERVICE MARKS 
 
Chapter 1: Trademarks, Service Marks and their Legal Protection 
 
Article 1. Trademarks and Service Marks 
 
Trademarks and service marks (hereinafter “trademark”) represent the designation by means of which 
the goods and services of a particular legal entity  or individual manufacturer are correspondingly 
distinguished from the same type of goods and ser vices (hereinafter “goods”) of other legal entities 
and individual manufacturers.  Article 2. Legal Protection of a Trademark  
 
Legal protection for a trademark in the Republic of  Armenia shall be granted on the basis of state 
registration (hereinafter “registration”) in the established by this Law order, or on the bases of 
recognizing the mark well-known in the Republic of  Armenia, or pursuant to the international 
agreements to which the Republic of Armenia is party. 
The right to a trademark shall be protected by the Law. 
 Article 3 Registration Certificate of a Trademark  
 1. A trademark may be registered in the name of a legal person or an organization, a physical person 
or an entrepreneur.  
 
2. A certificate on registration shall be granted to a registered trademark (hereinafter, trademark certificate). The certificate shall be granted to the person on whose name the trademark is registered 
(hereinafter, trademark owner).   
3. The trademark certificate confirms the fact of registration of a trademark, its priority, as well as the 
exclusive right of a trademark in respect to the goods listed in the trademark certificate.    IP/N/1/ARM/I/1/Add.1 
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Article 4.  Exclusive Right to a Trademark 
 (1) The exclusive right to a trademark shall emanate from the time of its being granted legal protection and shall belong to its owner.  
(2) The owner of a trademark shall have the exclusiv e right to own, use and dispose of the mark, and 
also to prohibit its use by other persons. No person sh all have the right to use a trademark protected in 
the Republic of Armenia, without the authorization of the owner of the trademark.  (3) The owner of a registered trademark shall have  the exclusive right to prohibit third parties from 
producing, using, importing, selling and proposing fo r sale a trademark or a good designated by that 
mark, in the process of commercial activity, without his authorization, and also the marketing by other 
means or storage for the same purpose of the good desi gnated by the mark or of the trademark, as well 
as the performance of the acts envisaged by Article 22 (1) and (2) of this Law, if the trademark is 
identical or similar to the point of confusion with  his trademark and is used in relation to goods 
(a) registered under his trademark; 
(b) of the same type as goods registered under his trademark.  (4) It shall be forbidden to use, in the pro cess of commercial activity, a particular designation 
representing a reproduction, imitation or translation of a designation, similar to the point of confusion 
with a trademark recognized and generally known in  the Republic of Armenia in relation to specific 
goods, and which may be used without the owner’s permission in relation to: 
(a) identical goods or those of the same type; (b) goods not of the same type which, by creati ng a misleading impression, force a link to be assumed 
between these goods and the owner of a well-known tr ademark, provided that such use may harm the 
latter’s interests. 
These provisions shall also extend to cases where an essential part of a designation is a reproduction 
of such a well-known trademark or its imitation to the point of confusion.  (4.1) Infringement of exclusive rights of a tradem ark owner (illegal use of a trademark) shall be 
deemed the use, without permission of its owner, of a trademark in civil circulation in the Republic of 
Armenia or a mark confusingly similar to it for t hose goods, for identification of which the trademark 
is registered or for goods similar thereto, among th em the application (presentation) of a trademark or 
a mark confusingly similar to it: a) on goods, labels, packages of those goods, if th ose goods are produced, sold or proposed for sale, 
are exhibited in exhibitions or fairs or are put into  the Republic of Armenia civil circulation by other 
means or are kept (stored) and (or) are transpor ted or imported into the Republic of Armenia; 
b) during providing services or carrying out works; 
c) in documents necessary for putti ng goods into civil circulation; 
d) in advertisements and sales proposals of goods; e) in Internet or other global computer networks , in particular in any addressing means, among them 
in domain names. Those goods, the packages, labels thereof, on whic h the trademarks are used illegally shall be 
considered fake, imitated. 
 (5) Paragraph 5 of Article 4 is invalid as of 13.01.2003. 
 (6) Where an agent or representative of an owner of a trademark, which is protected in one of member 
states of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property (hereinafter the “Paris 
Convention”) has filed an application of registration or has registered it in the Republic of Armenia on 
his behalf without permission of the mark owner the latter is entitled to: a) prohibit its registration; b) demand the cancellation of the registration of the mark if it has already occurred; 
c) prohibit the use of the mark by the agent or the representative if he has not given permission for IP/N/1/ARM/I/1/Add.1 
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such a use. Pursuant to subparagraph (a) of th is paragraph the trademark owner may enjoy his right in the process 
of the application examination un til the occurrence of the state registration of the trademark through 
filing the appropriate request to the Authorized Body.  
Article 5. Types of Trademark  
 (1) Verbal (including words, numbers, letters, na mes, catchwords), pictorial, three-dimensional 
(packages of goods, the appearance of the good and th e surface), sound and other marks imaging, or a 
combination thereof, may be registered as a trademark. 
 
(2) A trademark may be registered in any color or combination of colors.   
Chapter 2: Registration of a Trademark 
 Article 6.  Application for Registration of a Trademark  
 (1) An application for registration of a trademark (her einafter “an application”) shall be filed with the 
Assigned by the Government of the Republic of Arme nia (hereinafter “the Authorized Body”) person 
(hereinafter—up to the end of this Part—“an appli cant”), in the name of whom the registration of a 
trademark is sought. 
 
(2) An application may also be filed through the re presentative of the applicant or a patent attorney 
registered with the Authorized Body.  (3) Foreign legal entities and individual manufacturers shall manage affairs relating to the registration 
of trademarks, through patent attorneys registered wi th the Authorized Body. The authority of a patent 
attorney shall be confirmed by a power of attorney issued by the person in whose name registration of 
the trademark is requested.  (4) The procedure for certifying and registering patent attorneys shall be established by the 
Authorized Body. 
 
(5) The activities of patent attorneys shall be govern ed by the Statute approved by the Government of 
the Republic of Armenia.  (6) An application shall relate to one trademark only and shall contain: 
(a) a request for registration of the trademark, including the applicant’s name and his place of 
residence or business; (b) an image of the claimed mark and its descrip tion, as well as the color and color combination; 
(c) a list of goods grouped in accordance with the classes of the International Classification of Goods 
and Services, for which registration of the mark is claimed.  
(7) The application shall be accompanied by a: 
(a) receipt for payment of the requisite fee for fili ng the application and carrying out an examination; 
(b) the regulations for the collective mark, wher e an application is filed for such a mark; 
(c) a document confirming the authority of a patent a ttorney or a representative (power of attorney), if 
an application is filed through such an attorney. 
 
(8) The application shall be filed in Armenian. Th e documents attached to the application may be 
submitted in another language. In this case, appli cants from the Republic of Armenia shall submit 
their translation into Armenian together with the application and foreign applicants—within two 
months of the application filing date. 
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(9) The requirements for application documents shall be established by the Authorized Body. 
 Priority of a Trademark  7. (1) The priority of a trademark shall be established according to the year, month and day 
(hereinafter “ the date”) on which an appli cation is filed with the Authorized Body. 
 (2) The priority of a trademark may be established acc ording to the date on which the first application 
is filed in one of the States parties to the Paris C onvention (convention priority), if the application is 
filed with the Authorized Body within six months of the date in question. 
 
(3) The priority of a mark displayed among the exhibits at official, or officially recognized, international exhibitions, on the te rritory of one of the States parties to the Paris Convention, may be 
established according to the date on which the e xhibit began to be displayed at the exhibition 
(exhibition priority), if the application is filed with the Authorized Body within six months of the date 
in question. 
 (4) An applicant wishing to enjoy the right of convention or exhibition priority shall, when filing an application or within two months of the day on which the application is filed with the authorized State 
body, inform that body accordingly and shall att ach documents attesting to the right to this 
requirement, or submit these documents to the Author ized Body within three months of the date on 
which the application is filed. 
 (5) The priority of a trademark may be established according to the priority date of a trademark 
having international registration, in accordance w ith the international agreements to which the 
Republic of Armenia is a party. 
 
(6) If, in the course of an examination, it is est ablished that designations submitted for registration, 
which are identical or similar to the point of confus ion, and coincide partially  or fully with a list of 
goods, have the same priority date, a designation (or one of the designations similar to the point of 
confusion) may be registered in relation to the goods  coinciding, in the name of one of the applicants, 
in accordance with an agreement reached between the applicants. 
Applications relating to goods coinciding shall, with in six months of the day on which the Authorized 
Body receives appropriate notification, be considered to have been withdrawn, if the applicants do not 
reach agreement on the registration of the d esignation relating to the goods coinciding. 
 Article 8. Examination of an Application  
 
(1) The examination of an application, including a preliminary examination and an examination of the 
claimed mark shall be carried out by the Authorized Body.  (2) An applicant may, within two months of the da y on which the application is filed until a decision 
is taken thereon, at his own initiative make additions , clarifications and corrections to the application 
materials. 
 (3) An applicant may, in the course of an exam ination until a decision is taken to register a 
designation, submit a request to change the applicant for the application in question.  
(4) If additional materials substantially change the designation submitted for registration, or if the list 
of goods stated in the application includes goods that  are not of the same type, those materials will not 
be considered and may be filed by the applicant as an  independent application. In this case the priority 
of the mark shall be designated with the receiving date of additional materials if the new application 
has been filed within three months after that date and the first application is not withdrawn as of its 
filing date.  IP/N/1/ARM/I/1/Add.1 
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 (5) During an examination the Authorized Body may request the applicant to provide additional 
materials without which the examination cannot be  carried out. The additional materials shall be 
submitted within two months of the day on which the relevant request is received. 
 
(6) The period in question may, at the applicant’ s request, be extended by a maximum of six months, 
provided the request to extend the period has been received before the end of the two months referred 
to above. Where the requested materials are not  submitted within the prescribed period, the 
application shall be considered to have been withdrawn and the applicant shall be informed 
accordingly. 
 
(7) An application may, at the applicant’s request , be withdrawn at any stage of the examination. 
 (8) Where a trademark registration is sought for two or more goods, the applicant may, before the 
decision on trademark registration is made, as well as during the appellation process of the 
examination decision according to Article 13 of this Law, file a request on di viding the application in 
two or more applications (split applications) th rough sharing the goods among the split applications. 
In this case the split applications preserve the filing da tes of the first application and the priority date 
of the mark sought.   Article 9. Preliminary Examination  
 
(1) The preliminary examination of an application shall be conducted within one month of the day on 
which the application is filed. In cases where a request  is submitted, in accordance with Article 8(5) of 
this Law, the period in question shall be inte rrupted until such time as a response is received. 
 
(2) In the course of preliminary examination th e presence of documents necessary and meeting the 
stated requirements are examined. In case the app lication does not meet the stated requirements the 
applicant is requested to provide corrected or mi ssing documents within a period of two months, 
applying the provisions of Article 8 (6) of this Law.  In case the application meets the stated requirements the Authorized Body states the date of filing the 
application and takes a decision on taking the application for examination.  
 
(3) The Authorized Body states the date of filing of the application with the date of receiving the 
following data and elements:  1) an application from which it is obvious or may be supposed that registration of trademark is 
claimed, 
2) a designation allowing to identify the applicant, 
3) a designation allowing to contact the applicant or  his patent attorney or representative, if any, 
4) the sufficiently clear image of the trademark for which registration is claimed, 5) the list of goods and/or services for which registration is claimed, 6) the payment receipt for filing of the application. In case the mentioned data and elements are not recei ved at the same time the Authorized Body shall 
state the date of filing of the application by  the date of receiving of the last datum. 
 Article 10. Examination of a Claimed Designation  
 (1) A claimed designation shall be examined within six months of the completion of the preliminary 
examination. During the examination, the priority of  the trademark shall be established and it shall be 
verified whether the claimed designation meets at least the requirements of Article 11 and Article 
12(1) of this Law.  (2) On the basis of the outcome of an examination,  a decision shall be taken to register the claimed 
trademark for all goods or some of them mentioned in the application or to refuse its registration.  IP/N/1/ARM/I/1/Add.1 
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 (3) The applicant may, within two months of the day on which a decision to refuse to register a designation is received, submit a request for re -examination and shall pr ovide details of the 
justification therefore.  
(4) The period in question may, at the applicant’ s request, be extended by a maximum of six months, 
if the request to extend the period has been receive d before the end of the two months referred to 
above.  (5) An examination decision to register a designa tion may be reviewed by the Authorized Body as a 
result of the receipt of an application for a designa tion enjoying an earlier priority and identical or 
similar to the point of confusion, in relation to goods of the same type or in connection with the 
registration of an appellation of origin.  Article 11. Absolute Grounds for Refusal of Trademark Registration  
 
1. A trademark cannot be registered if it consists of  such signs that have not distinctive features and 
consist elements that: a) have come into general use as signs ch aracterizing a definite type of goods,  
b) are well-known symbols and terms; c) indicate the type, kind, quality, quantity, properties and value of goods, purpose of creation of 
goods, as well as the place and time of production and distribution thereof;  
f) exclusively represent the outward form of the good, which: - derives essentially from the nature of the product; - is necessary for achieving any technical effect  and characterizes the function of the good; 
- gives a substantial value to the good. 
The signs specified in the paragraphs "a" to "d" of  this paragraph may be included in the trademark as 
non-protect able elements, if they do not c onstitute the predominant part of the mark 
The requirements of this paragraph shall not apply to marks which have obtained distinctive features 
in the result of using.  1.1 A trademark cannot be registered, according to international treaties, if it reproduces state 
Emblems, flags and national symbols, full or a bbreviated names of international organizations, 
official emblems and hallmarks denoting contro l and guarantee, seals, rewards and other 
distinguishing signs or signs which confusingly resem ble with the mentioned ones. Such signs may be 
included in the trademark as a non-protected element with the consent of the owner or a relevant 
authorized body;  
(Article 11.1 is supplemented on 21.12.2004) 
 2. (Article 11.2 has no effect from 21.12.2004)  3.As trademark cannot be registered also signs imparting or containing: a) Information that leads or is su sceptible to lead the consumer in c onfusion with regard to the product 
or the manufacturer,  
b) A geographical indication and are filed for goods that are not originated from the area bearing this indication, if the use of the said indication is suscep tible to lead the consumer in confusion as for the 
real origin of the product;  c) A geographical indication ascertaining wines, fo r wines not originated from the area bearing the 
geographical indication specified or a geographical  indication ascertaining spirits, for sprits not 
originated from the area bearing the geographical indi cation specified, even if the real origin of the 
product is indicated or the geographical indication is  used in a translated version or in conjunction 
with such expressions as "sort", "type", "style", "imitation" and others.  
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4. Signs likewise cannot be registered as trademark if: a)are contrary to public interest, principles of humanity and morality or rules for preventing unfair 
competition (customs of commence). b) are incompatible with the national or spiritual values   
5. The provisions of this article, paragraph 1, su b-paragraph "f", as for the production area of products 
(geographical indication), do not apply to collectiv e marks registered according to article 21 of the 
present Law.  Article 12. Other Grounds for Refusal of Trademark Registration  
 
1. Signs identical or confusingly similar to th e following cannot be registered as trademarks: 
a) a trademark already registered in the name of a nother person or filed for registration with an earlier 
priority in the Republic of Armenia, for identical or similar goods (if the applications are not withdrawn or refused);  
b) trademarks already registered in the name of other persons protected without registration with an 
earlier priority, according to international treaties, for identical or similar goods;  c) trademarks of other persons being considered well-known, protected for the identical or similar 
goods in the Republic of Armenia, according to this Law;  d) an appellation of origin of goods or geographical indication being protected in the Republic of 
Armenia, with the exception of cases when they  are included as a non protected element in a 
trademark of persons having the right to use the said appellation;  
e) certification, collective or guarantee mark s registered in a prescribed procedure. 
f) trade names, protected in the Republic of Armenia,  if the right to use the trade name was acquired 
before the priority date of a trademar k filed for registration for similar goods;  
(second part of item f) is cancelled). 
 
2. Shall not also be registered as trad emarks which reproduce the following:  
a) (Article 12.2 sub-paragra ph "a” is cancelled on 21.12.2004) 
b) Industrial designs with an earlier priority, the righ t for the use of which in the Republic of Armenia  
belongs to other persons; c) Works and titles of works of science, literature  and art, or citations and fragment, heroes from 
them, well known in the Republic of Armenia, without the consent of the owner of copyright, if that 
rights are obtained before the priority date of that trademark; this sub-paragraph shall not to those woks of art or citations or heroes from them, which are 
geographical indications. d) Names, surnames, pseudonyms and their deriva tives, portraits or facsimile of known personalities, 
without the permission of those personalities, their heirs or the permission given in prescribe 
procedure by the Government of the Republic of Armenia, e) portraits of people without their consent or the consent of their heirs.  3. The consent of the trademark owner indicated in sub-paragraphs “a”, “b” or “c” of this article may 
be ground for registration of a trademark confusingl y similar to that mark in a procedure prescribed 
by the authorized body  
 4. (Paragraph 4 is cancelled).  5. The provisions of the paragraph 1 of this article shall not apply to identical geographical 
appellations for ascertainment of wines, if they are accompanied in conjunction with complementary 
distinctive elements, provided that the requirement s set forth in the article 11, paragraph 3, sub-
paragraph "b", of this Law are observed.    IP/N/1/ARM/I/1/Add.1 
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Article 13. Appeals Against Examiners’ Decisions and Renewal of Deadlines Missed by 
Applicants  
 
(1) Where he does not agree with the decision taken as a result of a preliminary or re-examination, an 
applicant may, within three months of the day on wh ich he receives the decision, submit an appeal to 
the Authorized Body Board of Appeal (hereinafter “the Board of Appeal”). 
 (2) The Board of Appeal may examine an appeal in accordance with the pro cedure established by the 
Authorized Body.  
(3) Where he does not agree with the decision taken as a result of a preliminary or re-examination, or 
a decision reached by the Board of Appeal, an a pplicant may refer the matter to the courts in 
accordance with the established legal procedure.  (4) An applicant may familiarize himself with the ma terials indicated in an examiner’s decision. The 
applicant may, within one month of the day on whic h the decision is received, request copies of these 
materials if they are not attached to the above decision.  (5) On the basis of a request filed by the appli cant, the Authorized Body  may renew the deadline 
provided for by Article 8(3) and (6) of this Law a nd paragraphs (1) and (3) of  this article, and missed 
by the applicant, within three months of its expiry, provided that the prescribed fee is paid. 
 
Article 14. Registration of a Trademark 
 The Authorized Body shall, on the basis of a decision to register a trademark within one month of 
receiving a receipt for payment of the prescribed f ee, enter a trademark in the State Register of 
Trademarks of the Republic of Armenia (hereinafter —up to the end of this Part—“the Register”). The 
Register shall contain the trademark image, informati on on its owner, the priority date and registration 
of the trademark, a list of goods for which the trad emark is registered, and other information approved 
by the Authorized Body, as well as subsequent amendments thereto. 
The registration date of a trademark shall be cons idered its actual state registration date in the 
Register.  
 
Article 15.  Issue of a Trademark Certificate  
 A trademark certificate shall be issued by the Author ized Body within one month of the day on which 
the trademark is entered in the Register. The form  of the certificate and a list of the information 
contained therein shall be determined by the Authorized Body. 
 Article 16. Period of Validity of Trademark Registration and Registration Split 
 (1) The registration of a trademark shall be valid fo r 10 years from the filing date of the application 
with the Authorized Body. 
 
(2) The period of validity of trademark registrati on may be extended repeatedly, on each occasion for 
10 years. The validity of trademark registration sha ll be extended at the request of its owner, filed 
during the final year of the current period of validity of registration.  
(3) The validity of the registration may also be exte nded at the request of the trademark owner, filed 
within six months of the expiry of the period of validity of the trademark’s registration, provided that an additional fee has been paid.  (4) The Authorized Body shall enter in the Register details of the extension of the period of validity of 
registration of a trademark and, at the owner’s request, in the trademark certificate. IP/N/1/ARM/I/1/Add.1 
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The Authorized Body shall within a period of three months publish information on renewal of 
trademark registration validity in its Official Bulletin.   (5) Where a trademark is registered for two or  more goods during the validation period of its 
registration as well as during the process of recognizing the registration invalid in accordance with 
Article 28 of this Law the owner of the mark may f ile an application with the Authorized Body on 
splitting that registration into two or more registra tions (split registration) through sharing those goods 
among the split registrations. In this case the split regi strations preserve the filing dates of the first 
registration and the priority date of the mark sought.   
Article 17. Entry of Amendments in the Register  
 (1) A trademark owner shall inform the Authorized Body of any change in the name, a reduction in 
the list of goods. The trademark owner may as well in form the Authorized Body about change in the 
individual non-substantive elements  (name of the owner, place of residence or location, size of the 
good, volume, quantity, ingredients) of the trademark, without changing the essence. 
 (2) Amendments shall be entered in the Register and a trademark certificate shall be issued at the 
request of the trademark owner, provided that the prescribed fee has been paid. Publication of Registration Information  
18. The Authorized Body shall publish information relating to the registration of a trademark and 
provided for by Article 14 of this Law, in its offici al journal and within three months of the day of 
registration. Registration of a Trademark Abroad  
19. (1) Legal persons and individual manufacturer s in the Republic of Armenia may register a 
trademark abroad or register it internationally.  (2) An application for international registration of  a trademark shall be filed through the Authorized 
Body.   Chapter 3: Collective Mark 
 
Article 20. Collective Mark  
 (1) A trademark of any economic association,  intended to designate goods possessing combined 
qualitative or other general characteristics, and manufactured and/or produced thereby shall be 
regarded as a collective mark.  (2) A collective mark and the entitlement  to its use shall not be assigned. 
Registration of a Collective Mark  
21. (1) The regulations for a collective mark shall be attached to an application for registration of such 
a mark and shall contain the name of an economic a ssociation, the name of a legal person authorized 
to register the collective mark in their own name, a list of legal persons entitled to use this mark, the 
purpose of registration, the names of the goods desi gnated by the collective mark, and their combined 
qualitative or other general character istics, conditions of use of th e collective mark, procedure for 
monitoring its use, and responsibility for infri nging the regulations of the collective mark. 
 (2) In addition to the information provided for by Ar ticle 14 of this Law, deta ils of the legal persons 
entitled to use a collective mark shall also be entere d in the Register and the Certificate. These details, 
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general characteristics, for which the collective mark is registered, shall be published in the 
Authorized Body’s Official Journal.  (3) The owner of a collective mark shall inform the Authorized Body of any amendments made to the 
collective mark regulations. 
 
(4) In cases where a collective mark is used on g oods which do not have common qualitative or other 
general characteristics, the validity of registration ma y be terminated prematurely either in full or in 
part, on a court decision based on a request by any person.  
(5) A collective mark or application therefore in  accordance with the procedure established by the 
Authorized Body may correspondingly be converted into a trademark or an application for such a mark of a legal person or individual manufacturer, and vice versa.  
Chapter 3.1 Legal Protection of Well-Known Marks  
 
Article 21.1  Well-known Trademark  
 1. A trademark may be recognized well-known in th e Republic of Armenia based on the application 
of a natural person or legal entity, which is gr anted protection based on registration in the order 
prescribed by this law, by virtue of the Republic of Armenia international agreements, as well as a 
trademark used but not protected in the Republic of Armenia. 
 2. A trademark of a particular person mentioned in  paragraph 1 of this Article shall be recognized 
well-known for certain goods if as a result of broad use of those goods it has, as of the indicated date, recognized well-known within a certain circle of public , as a distinguishing (identification) feature of 
the mentioned goods. 
 3. A trademark may not be recognized well known if it has become well- known for similar goods 
after the priority date of similar or confusingly similar marks protected in the Republic of Armenia. 
 Article 21.2 Legal Protection of Well-known Trademark  
 
1. According to paragraph 1 Article 21.1 of this Law an application on recognizing a mark well know 
shall be considered by the Board of Appeal. The form of the request, the attached documents and 
requirements thereto as well as the order of the request consideration shall be defined by the 
Authorized Body.  
 
2. (Paragraph 2 is cancelled).  3. The well-known trademark shall be included into  the list of trademarks recognized well known in 
the Republic of Armenia (hereinafter “list”) by the Authorized Body. The list shall include the 
trademark recognized as well-known, the name of its owner, and the place of residence or location, 
the date of being recognized as well-known, as well as  the goods for which that mark is recognized 
well-known.   4. The well-known trademark certificate shall be gran ted by the Authorized Body within one month 
after including the well known mark in the list. The form of the certificate and the list of information 
to be mentioned therein shall be defined by the Authorized Body.  
 5. The legal protection to a well-known trad emark shall be granted without time limit. 
 6. The Authorized Body shall within three months after the date of including the information provided 
in paragraph 3 of this Article in the lis t publish it in its Official Bulletin.  IP/N/1/ARM/I/1/Add.1 
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  Article 21.3  Volume of Legal Protection of Well-known Trademark  
 1. The trademark recognized as well-know is granted legal protection as that granted to trademarks 
under this Law.  
 2. The protection granted to the well-known trademark is not limited by time.  3. The protection granted to the well-known tradem ark shall as well extend to the goods which are not 
similar to goods mentioned in Article 21.1 (2), if th e use of a trademark or a mark confusingly similar 
to the well-known mark by a third person s upposes relation between those goods and the goods 
belonging to the owner of the well-known trademark, taking into account the fact that such a use may 
prejudice the interests of the owner of the well-known trademark.  
4. Pursuant to paragraph 3 of this Article the owner of the well-known trademark has the right to 
submit a claim to the court to withdraw partly or in whole the validity of the trademark identical or 
confusingly similar to his mark, if his mark has a priority date of being recognized as well-known. In 
such case the permanent use of that trademark to  produced goods or provided services during three 
years prior to the claim shall serve as a bases for refusal of the claim. 
 
5. Pursuant to paragraph 3 of this Article the owner of the well-known trademark has the right to 
prohibit third persons, in the order established by this Law, the use of a trademark identical or 
confusingly similar to his mark and the use of the trademark registered by priority date mentioned in 
paragraph 4 of this Article if that mark was used  no more than three years as well as the use of a non-
registered trademark.  
 
Chapter 4: Use of a Trademark 
 
Article 22. Use of a Trademark and the Consequences of its Non-Use 
 (1) A trademark shall be considered to be used wh en it is placed on goods for which the trademark is 
registered, and/or their packaging. 
 (2) A trademark shall also be considered to be used when it is applied in advertising, publications, and 
also official forms, signboards, displays of exhibits  at exhibitions and fairs organized in the Republic 
of Armenia, only in cases where the mark cannot be displayed on goods and/or their packaging. 
 
(3) Legal persons and individual manufacturers acti ng as intermediaries may, on the basis of an 
agreement, use their trademark in addition to that of the manufacturer of the goods or instead of it. 
 4. The validity of a trademark registration may, on the bases of a request from any person, by the 
decision of the Board of Appeal, be terminated prem aturely in relation to all the goods for which it is 
registered, or to a part of them, if within five year s after the date of registration, or in the case of later 
filing within five years preceding to it, the mark  has not been used or has been used in a non-
reasonable volume by the holder or person w ith such an entitlement, according to a licensing 
agreement and pursuant to Article 26 of this Law.  The evidence of use of the trademark shall be 
provided by the holder or by a person entitled to u se the mark by licensing agreement. The decision of 
the Board of Appeal may be appealed in the court within six months after the decision is taken.  
 (5) The validity of the registration of a trademark may not, based on paragra ph 4 of this Article, be 
terminated in relation to all goods or part thereof, if:   IP/N/1/ARM/I/1/Add.1 
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(a) the trademark owner or person entitled to use th e trademark has cited reasons relating to the fact 
that the non-use of the trademark is the result of  circumstances which are insurmountable, unforeseen 
and beyond his control; (b) the trademark was used by its owner or by a pe rson entitled to use it such that it differs from that 
registered only in relation to individual elements  which do not change its distinguishing features; 
(c) in the Republic of Armenia the trademark was placed on goods and/or their packaging exclusively 
for export purposes.  (6) (Paragraph 6 is cancelled).  
Article 23. Restriction of Rights of a Trademark Owner  
 (1) The owner of a trademark may not prohibit thir d persons from using, in the process of commercial 
activity: (a) their title (name, pseudonym) or address; 
(b) designations characterizing the form, quality, quantity, cost, purpose of creation (provision) and 
other features of a good, and also designations characterizing the time and place of production and 
manufacture (provision) of a good; (c) a trademark, where this is required to indicate the purpose of creation (provision) of a good, in particular as auxiliary or spare parts, if they ar e used without harming the lawful interests of the 
trademark owner and of third persons , and without misleading the user. 
 
(2) The owner of a registered trademark may not proh ibit the use by other persons of a given mark in 
relation to goods which the mark owner introduced, or  which were introduced with his consent, into 
the economy in any country with this designation, if the characteristics of these goods in the marketing process were not subject to change eith er naturally or as a result of interference. 
 
Article 24.  Preventive Labeling  
 A trademark owner may place, next to the trademark,  a preventive mark confirming registration of the 
trademark in question in the Republic of Armenia—in the form of an ® in a circle or the individual 
Latin letter R, or also in the form of the e xpressions “Trademark” or “Registered trademark.” 
 
Chapter 5: Transfer of a Trademark 
 
Article 25. Assignment of a Trademark 
 
A trademark may be assigned by agreement to other persons for all the goods, or a number thereof, 
stated in the trademark certificate. The assignment  of a trademark shall not be permitted, where this 
might be the reason for misleading the user as regards the good itself or its manufacturer.  Article 26.  Permission to Use a Trademark  
 
(1) A trademark owner (licensor) may, on the basis of a licensing agreement, give another person 
(licensee) permission to use the trademark.  (2) The licensing agreement shall indicate that the quality of the licensee’s good shall not yield to the 
quality of the licensor’s good and that the licensor shall monitor compliance with this requirement. 
 
(3) Permission to use a trademark shall not be give n, where this may be the cause of the user being 
misled as regards the place where the good is produced.   IP/N/1/ARM/I/1/Add.1 
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Article 27. Registration of an Agreement to Assign  a Trademark and a Licensing Agreement  
 An agreement to assign a trademark and a licensing agre ement shall be registered with the Authorized 
Body. An unregistered agreement shall be considered invalid. Decisions relating to agreements to assign a trademar k and licensing agreements may be appealed in 
the Board of Appeal and (or) by a court procedure. 
 Article 28. . Recognition of Legal Protection of Trademark as Invalid  
 (1) The registration of a trademark or granting of legal protection to it in the Republic of Armenia 
based on its international registration ma y be appealed and recognized invalid:  
a) totally or partially during the whole period of its  validity, if it is provided in contravention of the 
requirements of Articles 11 of this Law, or within 5 years after the publication of the information on 
granting of legal protection to the trademark in the Official Bulletin if the legal protection is granted 
in contravention of the requiremen ts of Articles 12 of this Law  
b) totally, during the whole period of legal protec tion, if it is granted in contravention of the 
requirements of paragraph 1 of Articles 3 of this Law c) totally, during the whole period of legal protection, if it is granted in any of member states of the 
Paris Convention in the name of the agent or  representative of the trademark holder without 
permission of the latter.   
(2) Recognition of a trademark as well known in th e Republic of Armenia may be appealed and 
recognized invalid totally or partially within the peri od of its legal protection if it is in contradiction 
with the requirements of Article 21.1 of this Law.  (3) The appeal having the bases and time limit provide d by subparagraphs “a” and “b” of paragraph 1 
of this Article may be submitted to the Board of Appeal by any person. 
The appeal having the bases and time limit provi ded by subparagraph “c” of paragraph 1 of this 
Article may be submitted to the Board of Appeal by a person who is the holder of the mark in any 
member states of the Paris Convention. The appeal for recognizing a trademark well known with the bases and time limit provided by 
paragraph 2 of this Article to the Board of Appeal may be submitted by any person. 
Any decision taken by the Board of Appeal on clai ms submitted according to this paragraph may be 
appealed in the court procedure within six months after the decision is taken. 
 4. (Paragraph 4 is cancelled).  Chapter 6: Termination of Legal Protection of a Trademark 
 
Article 28. Recognition of Trademark Registration as Invalid  
 (1) The registration of a trademark may be recognized as invalid either fully or partially during the whole of the period of its validity, if it is produced  in contravention of the requirements of Articles 3 
and 11 of this Law, or used dishonestly, in partic ular in accordance with Article 6septies of the Paris 
Convention, and also within five years of the da y on which information on the registration of the 
trademark is published in the Official Journal—based on the requirements of Article 12 of this Law.  (2) Any natural or legal person may submit an appeal  to the Board of Appeal regarding recognition of 
the registration of a trademark as invalid. The Bo ard of Appeal shall examine the appeal in 
accordance with the procedure estab lished by the Authorized Body. 
 (3) An Board of Appeal decision may, within six mont hs of the day in which it is taken, be challenged 
in the courts. 
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(4) In accordance with paragraph (1) of this article , the registration of a trademark may be recognized 
as invalid either fully or partially, also at the Authorized Body’s instigation and according to the 
procedure approved thereby.  Article 29. Cancellation of Registration and Re-regis tration of a Trademark and Termination of 
Legal Protection  
 
(1) The Authorized Body shall cancel the regi stration of a trademark in the following cases: 
(a) the period of validity of trademark registrati on, provided for by Article 16 of this Law, has 
expired; 
(b) in accordance with Article 21(4) of this Law, on a court decision the registration of a collective 
mark is terminated prematurely as a result of the use of the collective mark on goods which do not 
have common qualitative or other general characteristics; (c) in accordance with Article 22(4) of this Law, on a court decision the validity of a trademark is 
terminated prematurely as a result of the trademark not being used; 
(d) registration of a trademark is recognized as i nvalid—in accordance with Article 28 of this Law; 
(e) the trademark owner goes into liquidation; (f) following a request by any person, on a court decision a trademark is recognized as having been 
converted into a designation and as having become gene rally used to designate goods of a particular 
type; (g) in connection with the registration of an appe llation of origin for a good identical or confusingly 
similar to the trademark, if within one year after registration of the appellation of origin the trademark 
holder is not granted a right to use the appellation of origin for that good; (h) the owner of the trademark has rejected the said mark.   1.1 The legal protection of a trademark shall be terminated if: 
a) the registration of a mark has been withdr awn pursuant to paragraph 1 of this Article; 
b) the granting of the legal protection to a trademar k has been recognized invalid pursuant to Article 
28 of this Law.  1.2 The legal protection of a trademark recognized  well known in the Republic of Armenia shall be 
terminated pursuant to subparagraphs “b”-“g” of pa ragraph 1 of this Article as well as pursuant to 
paragraph 2 of Article 28 of this Law, where r ecognizing a trademark well known in the Republic of 
Armenia is withdrawn. The legal protection of a well-known trademark may be terminated also according to the decision of the Board of Appeal in the case of review of c onditions necessary for recognizing a mark well known. 
The above appeal may be submitted to the Board of Appeal by any person. 
 
2. Paragraph 2 of Article 29 has no effect as of 21.12.2004  
Section 2 - APPELLATION OF ORIGIN 
 
Chapter 7: Appellation of Origin and its Legal Protection 
 
Article 30. Appellation of Origin 
 (1) An appellation of origin (hereinafter “appellati on”) shall be the name of a country, populated area, 
locality or other geographical location (hereinafter “geographical location”), used to designate a good, 
the particular features of which are exclusively or mainly defined by natural conditions and/or human 
factors characteristic of the geographical location in question.  (2) The appellation may be the historical name of a geographical location.  
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(3) A name which, although constituting or contai ning the name of a geographical location, has not 
come into general use in the Republic of Armenia as a means of expressing the designation of a particular type of good, unconnected with the place in which it is produced, shall not be recognized as 
an appellation.  
Article 31.  Legal Protection of an Appellation  
 (1) Legal protection for an appellation in the Republic  of Armenia shall be granted on the basis of its 
registration in accordance with the procedure establis hed by this Law, or in accordance with the 
international agreements to which the Republic of Armenia is party. 
 
(2) The appellation shall be protected by law.  (3) The appellation may be filed for registration by: (a) one or more legal persons or individual ma nufacturers producing the good in question in the 
locality indicated in the application; 
(b) organizations protecting users’ rights; (c) other competent authorities involved in the production of the good in question.  (4) A legal person or individual manufacturer filing an  appellation for registration shall be entitled to 
use it, if the good he produces meets the re quirements of Article 30(1) of this Law. 
 
(5) The right to use this appellation, registered in accordance with the established procedure, may be 
granted to any legal person or individual manufact urer producing the good in the same geographical 
location and with the same features.  
(6) Registration of the appellation shall be valid indefinitely. 
 (7) A name, which designates the geographical location of actual production of a good and gives the user a false impression as to how the good appears to have been produced in another geographical 
location of the same name, shall not be subject to legal protection as an appellation of origin. 
 
(8) In the case of geographical designations of the same name which individualize wines, each shall 
be subject to legal protection, if they contain a ppropriate distinguishing additions, and provided that 
the requirements of paragraph (5) of this article and the rightful interests of producers have been 
satisfied.  Chapter 8: Registration and Provision of the Right to Use an Appellation 
 
Article 32.  An Application for Registration and the Right to Use an Appellation  
 (1) An application for registration and/or the right to use an appellation (hereinafter “an application”) 
shall be filed with the Authorized Body by legal persons and/or individual manufacturers (hereinafter 
“an applicant”), indicated in Article 31(3) of this Law. 
 (2) An application may be filed in accordance with the procedure established by Article 6(2) of this 
Law, in accordance with the requirements of paragraphs (3) to (5).  
(3) An application shall relate to a single appellation and shall contain: 
(a) a request for registration and/or provision of th e right to use the appellation, containing details of 
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(c) an indication of the good for which registration and/or provision of the right to use the appellation are requested, with an indication of the name of th e place (geographical location) in which the good is 
produced; (d) documents clearly identifying the borders of the geographical location, in relation to which the appellation is applied; 
(e) a description of the particular features (basic physical, chemical, microbiological and/or 
organoleptic characteristics) of the good (whe re necessary—also of the raw material); 
(f) where necessary—a description of the local or iginal method by which the good is produced; 
(g) details of special labeling connected with the appellation.  
(4) The following shall be attached to the application: 
(a) for applicants from the Republic of Armenia— a certificate from the local government authority 
stating that the applicant is in the geographical lo cation in question and produces the good, the special 
features of which are defined by natural conditions  and/or human factors characteristic of the 
geographical location in question (for the applicants  indicated in Article 31(3)(a) of this Law); 
(b) for foreign applicants—a document attesting to th eir right to use an appellation in the country in 
which the good originates; (c) a receipt for payment of the prescribed f ee for filing an application and conducting an 
examination; (d) a document confirming the capacity of a patent atto rney (power of attorney), if the application is 
filed through such an attorney. 
 
(5) An application shall be filed in Armenian. The documents attached to the application may be filed 
in a different language. In this case, applicants from the Republic of Armenia shall be obliged to 
submit their translation into Armenian together w ith the application, and foreign applicants—within 
two months of the day on which the application is filed. 
 
(6) The requirements for application documents shall be established by the Authorized Body. 
 Article 33.  Examination of an Application  
 (1) An application shall be examined, including a preliminary examination and examination of the 
claimed appellation, by the Authorized Body. 
 (2) An applicant may, from the day on which the app lication is filed with the Authorized Body until a 
decision is taken on it, make amendments, clarificatio ns and corrections to the application materials at 
his own initiative. 
 
(3) If the additional materials change substantiv ely the appellation filed for registration, these 
materials shall not be considered and may be estab lished by the applicant as a separate application. 
 (4) During the examination, the Authorized Body ma y request from the applicant additional materials, 
without which the examination cannot be conducted. The additional materials shall be filed within 
two months of the day on which the request is received. 
 (5) At the applicant’s request, the period in question may be extended by not more than six months, if 
the request to extend the period has been received prior to the expiry of the aforementioned two-
month period. Where the requested materials are not submitted within the prescribed period, the 
application shall be considered to have been withdrawn. 
 (6) The preliminary examination of the application shall be conducted within one month of the day on 
which the application is filed with the Authori zed Body. Where the request is dispatched in 
accordance with paragraph (4) of this article, the period in question shall be interrupted until such 
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 (7) During the preliminary examination the content of  the application shall be verified, along with the 
presence of the requisite documents, and also their compliance with the established requirements. On 
the basis of the results of the preliminary examina tion, the applicant shall be  informed as to whether 
the application will be considered. 
 
(8) According to the application considered, an examination of the claimed appellation shall be 
conducted, during which its compliance with the requ irements of Article 30 of this Law shall be 
verified.  
(9) Following the examination, the Authorized Body shall take a decision to register the appellation 
and to provide the right to use it, or to refuse to register the appellation and not to provide the right to use the previously registered appellation.  (10) Where the applicant does not agree with an exam ination decision, he may, within two months of 
the day on which he receives the decision, file a request for a re-examination to be carried out, and 
shall explain the relevant grounds.  (11) The period in question may, at the applicant’s request, be extended by not more than six months, 
if the request to extend the period has been receive d prior to expiry of the aforementioned two-month 
period. 
 
(12) At the applicant’s request, an application ma y be withdrawn at any stage of the examination. 
 Article 34. Appeal Against an Examiner’s Decision and Renewal of Deadlines Missed by the 
Applicant  
 
(1) Where he does not agree with any decision based on examination, an applicant may, within three 
months of the day on which he receives the decision,  submit an appeal to the Board of Appeal. The 
Board of Appeal shall examine the appeal in  accordance with the procedure approved by the 
Authorized Body.  
(2) Where he does not agree with any decision based on examination, or a decision taken by the Board 
of Appeal, an applicant shall have the right to s ubmit a claim to the court within six months after 
receiving the decision.  The Authorized Body may renew the deadline provided  for by Article 33(4) and paragraph (1) of this 
article, and missed by the applicant, within three m onths of its expiry, based on a request filed by the 
applicant and subject to payment of the prescribed fee. 
 Article 35. Grounds for Refusing to Register an Appellation  
 A name may not be registered as an appellation of origin, which:  
(a) has been filed for registration by pers ons lacking the requisite authorization; 
 (b) does not meet the requirements  of Article 30 of this Law; 
 (c) is identical or similar to the point of confusio n to an appellation already registered or filed for 
registration in the Republic of Armenia, for goods of the same type; 
 (d) is not compatible with the interests of societ y, principles of humanity and morality, or the customs 
of fair competition (business practice);  
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 (f) is not protected, the protection of which has been  terminated, or whose use is not permitted in the 
country of origin;  (g) is misleading, in particular as regards the ch aracter, quality or geographical origin of the good, 
even if the appellation is literally authentic acco rding to the sense of the geographical location of 
origin of the good (in the case of identical appella tions), but creates a false impression for the user 
whereby the good has been produced in a different  geographical location. In the case of identical 
names, an appellation may be registered, if on the mark of the good some kind of distinguishing feature is clearly and visibly displayed, so as to preclude the user from being misled, for example by 
the name of the country or region of origin. 
 Article 36. Registration of an Appellation and Issue of a Certificate 
for the Right to use the Appellation  
 (1) The Authorized Body shall, on the basis of a decision to register an appellation and within one 
month of receiving a receipt for payment of the prescribed fee, enter the appellation in the State 
Register of Appellations of Origin of the Republic  of Armenia (hereinafter “the Register”). The 
Register shall contain the appellation, the particulars of the holder of the certificate for the right to use 
the appellation (hereinafter “the certificate”), the designation of the good for which the appellation in 
question is registered, a description of its particular  features, other information according to a list 
drawn up by the Authorized Body relating to the registration and provision of the right to use the 
appellation, and also subsequent  changes to the information. 
 (2) The certificate shall be issued by the Authori zed Body within one month of the day on which the 
appellation is entered in the Register. 
 
(3) The form of the certificate and the content of the information contained therein shall be 
determined by the Authorized Body.  Article 37. Period of Validity of a Certificate for the Right to use an Appellation  
 
(1) A certificate shall be valid for a period of 10 y ears from the date on which the application is filed 
with the Authorized Body.  (2) The period of validity of a certificate may, at th e request of its holder, be extended repeatedly, on 
each occasion for 10 years, if certificates from th e appropriate competent authorities are submitted 
together with the request, concerning the fact that the certificate holder is in the geographical location 
in question and that the good with the features indi cated in the certificate is produced. A request to 
extend the period of validity of the certificate shall be submitted during the final year of the current 
period of its validity.  (3) The period of validity of a certificate may also be extended at the request of the holder, submitted 
within six months of the expiry of the certificate’s period of validity, provided that an additional fee 
has been paid.  (4) The Authorized Body shall enter details of the extension of the period of a certificate’s validity in 
the Register and, at the holder’s request, on the certificate. 
 
Article 38. Inclusion of Amendments in the Register  
 (1) A certificate holder shall inform the Authorized Body of a change in his appellation or family 
name, first name and patronymic, as well as of cha nges relating to the registration of and right to use 
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 (2) Changes shall be entered in the Register and on a certificate at the request of the certificate holder, 
provided that the prescribed fee has been paid.  Article 39. Publication of Information on the Registration and Provision of the Right to Use an 
Appellation  
 
The Authorized Body shall, within three months of  the day of registration, publish in its Official 
Journal, information concerning an appellation and entered in the Register in accordance with  
 
Article 36 of this Law (excluding informa tion relating to special features of a good). 
 Article 40.  Registration of an Appellation Abroad  
 (1) Legal persons and individual manufacturers in  the Republic of Armenia may register an 
appellation abroad. 
 (2) An application for registration of an appellation abroad shall be filed following the registration and 
acquisition of the right to use the appellation in the Republic of Armenia.   
Chapter 9: Use of an Appellation 
 
Article 41. Use of an Appellation  
 (1) The use of an appellation shall be considered to  be its application on a good and packaging, in 
advertising, pamphlets, invoices, forms and also other documentation linked to the introduction of the 
good into the economy. 
 (2) Any use of an appellation which, in accordance w ith Article 10bis of the Paris Convention, may be 
qualified as an act of unfair competition, shall not be permitted.  (3) The use of any means which makes a relevant indication or which gives the user the impression 
that the good in question has been produced in a diffe rent geographical location, rather than the actual 
location in which it was produced, shall not be perm itted for the purposes of designating or displaying 
goods.  (4) The use of a registered appellation by persons  who do not possess an appropriate certificate, even 
if the genuine place of origin of a good is indicated  or an appellation is used in translation or in 
combination with such expressions as “kind,” “type,” “imitation,” and the like, shall not be permitted, 
just as the use of an identical designation for any good which may mislead the user as regards the 
place of origin and special features of the good shall not be allowed.  (5) In the case of identical names, an appellation of origin may be used, if it is combined with some 
clearly and visibly displayed distinguishing feature, which precludes the user from being misled as 
regards, for example, the name of the country or region of origin.  (6) Any legal person or individual manufacturer may, in the process of commercial activity, use: 
 
(a) a registered appellation for goods introduced into the economy in any country by a person in 
possession of a certificate for the use of the appellation,  if in the marketing process the characteristics 
of these goods were not changed natura lly or by way of interference; 
 (b) his name and address or the name and address of the predecessor in title’s right to manufacture, 
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 (7) An appellation may, within three years of the day on which it is registered in the Republic of Armenia, be used by the owner of a trademark identic al or similar to the point of confusion with the 
appellation, if it is registered no later than six m onths prior to the day on which the appellation was 
registered. During the period in question, any person  may use, in the process of commercial activity, a 
registered appellation for goods introduced into the economy in any country by the owner of the 
trademark in question or with his consent, if in  the marketing process the characteristics of these 
goods have not been changed naturally or by way of interference.  (8) The citizens of the Republic of Armenia or na tural and legal persons pe rmanently resident or 
residing in the country, and who have used in th e Republic of Armenia geographical designations 
from another country, which individualize wines or alcoholic drinks and are connected with goods 
and services:  (a) uninterruptedly for a minimum of 10 years, prior to April 15, 1994, or 
 
(b) in good faith before April 15, 1994 may use or continue to use in such a way in the Republic of Armenia the geographical designations in 
question for goods and services of the same type.  (9) Persons who lawfully or honest ly use geographical designations which, on the territory of the 
Republic of Armenia, have received legal protection, shall be granted the right to continue to use the 
geographical designation in ques tion, provided for viticultural purposes including for wines 
containing a geographical designation from another c ountry, and prior to the entry into force of the 
World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement, where this  coincides with the habitual name of the sort 
of grape growing on the territory of the Republic of Armenia. 
 
(10) The rights relating to a trademark, similar or id entical to an appellation of origin, shall continue 
to be preserved, if the latter is honestly filed for registration or is registered  
 (a) prior to the date on which the provisions of  the WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of 
Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS Agreement) ar e applied in the Republic of Armenia, or  
(b) prior to the acquisition of protection for this appellation in its country of origin. 
 (11) The requirements for lega l persons, individual manufacturers,  organizations and competent 
authorities, contained in Article 31(3) of this Law a nd relating to the use or registration of a trademark 
shall be submitted within five years of the unlaw ful use of a protected appellation becoming widely 
known in the Republic of Armenia, provided that the name is honestly registered. 
 (12) A certificate holder may not assign the right to use an appellation to other persons.  Article 42. Preventive Marking  
 
A certificate holder may place a preventive marking alongside an appellation so as to authenticate the 
registration of a given appellation in the Republic of Armenia, in the form of the expression “Registered Appellation of Orig in” in full or abbreviated. 
 
Chapter 10: Termination of Legal Protection of an Appellation 
 
Article 43. Recognition of Registration of an Appellation and of the Certificate for the Right to 
Use the Appellation as Invalid  
 
(1) The registration of an appellation may be recogni zed as invalid, if it is made in violation of the 
requirements established by this Law. IP/N/1/ARM/I/1/Add.1 
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 (2) A certificate may be recognized as invalid, if it is issued in violation of the requirements established by this Law.  (3) Any person may submit to the Board of Appeal or  courts an appeal against the registration of an 
appellation and the issue of a certificate for the ri ght to use the appellation on the grounds stated in 
Articles 30, 31 and 35 of this Law. The Board of Appeal shall examine the appeal in accordance with 
the procedure approved by the Authorized Body.  (4) The decision of the Board of Appeal may be cha llenged in the courts within six months of the day 
on which it is received. 
 Article 44. Recognition of the Lapse of Registration of an Appellation and Validity of a 
Certificate for the Right to Use the Appellation  
 (1) The Authorized Body shall recognize the validity of the registration of an appellation as having 
lapsed, if (a) the registration of the appellation is recognized as invalid in accordance with Article 43 of this 
Law; (b) the conditions which are typical of the geographi cal location in question have ceased to exist and 
the good can no longer be produced with the features indicated in the State Register. The registration 
of an appellation in the name of individual manuf acturers living outside the Republic of Armenia and 
of foreign legal persons shall, apart from on the gr ounds stated, be recognized as having lapsed also 
where the rights to use the appellation in question in  the country in which the good is produced have 
been lost by the persons concerned.  
(2) The Authorized Body shall recognize a certific ate for an appellation as having lapsed, if 
(a) the certificate is recognized as invalid in  accordance with Article 43 of this Law; 
(b) the good has lost the special f eatures indicated in the Register; 
(c) the validity of the registration of an appellati on is recognized as having lapsed in accordance with 
paragraph (1) of this article; (d) the certificate holder has gone into liquidation; 
(e) the certificate holder has submitted a request to the Authorized Body for the certificate to be 
withdrawn.  
 
Section 3 - FINAL PROVISIONS  
 
Chapter 11: Final Provisions 
 
Article 45. State Fees  
 For the registration of a trademark or an appellation,  as well as the filing of an application to obtain a 
certificate for the right to use an appellation, and th e performance of other related legal acts, fees shall 
be levied, the types, levels and procedures for payment of which shall be prescribed by law. 
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Article 46. Settlement of Disputes Relating to the Implem entation of this Law Disputes relating 
to the implementation of this Law shall be settl ed by the courts, including those concerning the  
 
(a) infringement of the exclusive right to a trademark; (b) conclusion and execution of a licensing agreem ent and also a trademark assignment agreement; 
(c) unlawful use of an appellation. 
 Article 47.  Liability for the Unlawful Use of a Trademark and an Appellation 
 (1) The use of a trademark or a designation similar th ereto to the point of confusion, and also the use 
of an appellation or designation similar thereto to the point of confusion, which does not comply with 
the requirements of Articles 4 and 41 of this Law, shall incur liabilit y in accordance with the 
procedure established by the legislation of the Republic of Armenia.  (2) In the case of unlawful use of a trademark, the civil rights concerned shall, apart from the 
requirement to terminate the unlawful use and to compensate for the lo sses incurred, shall be 
protected by means of:  (a) the infringing party publishing the court decision in order to re-establish the reputation of the injured party; (b) removing from the good or its packaging the unlawfu lly used trademark, or the designation similar 
thereto to the point of confusion, by means excluding the risk of it being placed again on the good or 
its packaging; (c) destroying the images of the trademark or designa tion similar thereto to the point of confusion; 
(d) where the methods provided for by subparagra phs (b) and (c) cannot be used, removing or also 
destroying, without any form of compensation, the good and/or packaging, unlawfully labeled with 
the trademark, excluding as a consequence the likelihood of causing some kind of harm to the 
trademark owner.  (3) At the request of the holder of a certificate for the right to use an appellation of origin, or of a 
public organization, a person unlawfully using the re gistered appellation or designation similar thereto 
to the point of confusion shall: 
(a) terminate the use thereof and provide compensati on for all the losses caused, and also contribute to 
the local budget the sum of the profit received in excess of the compensation for the losses, and 
resulting from the unlawful use of the appellation; (b) publish the court decision in order to re- establish the reputation of the injured party; 
(c) remove from the good, its packaging, form  and other documentation the unlawfully used 
appellation or designation (means of expression) simila r thereto to the point of confusion, so as to 
exclude the risk of it being placed again on the good or its packaging; (d) destroy the manufactured images of the appellation; (e) where the requirements of subparagraphs (c) and (d) of this paragraph cannot be satisfied, the good 
and/or packaging unlawfully labeled with the appe llation shall be removed or destroyed without any 
form of compensation. 
 
(4) In the case of unlawful use of a trademark or a ppellation of origin, the civil rights concerned shall 
be protected, for the purposes of reducing the furt her threat of infringements, by removing the 
material objects (materials, equipment, means of advertising and so on), serving as the basis of the infringement, if the majority of the objects c oncerned were used for the purposes indicated. 
 
(5) Any person, whose rights in relation to a trad emark or appellation of origin are infringed or may 
be infringed, may request the courts to demand fro m the owner of the unlawfully used trademark or 
good, or the holder of the appellation, informa tion on third parties involved in the production and 
dissemination of such goods, as well as on how  the goods were obtained and disseminated. 
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(6) In accordance with the proce dure established by the legislation of the Republic of Armenia, 
liability shall be borne by: (a) the person owning the unlawfully used trad emark or good—the holder of the appellation who 
refuses to provide information as to how such goods were obtained; (b) any person who makes a false statement as to th e true rights owner of a trademark or appellation, 
or unlawfully removes from the good (or its packaging) , the trademark or appellation, or by means of 
deception presents himself as the rights owner of the trademark or appellation; (c) a person using the preventive marking together with a trademark or appellation of origin not 
registered in the Republic of Armenia, if this ma rking does not reflect some kind of reference to the 
existence of registration in another country, or this  trademark or appellation relating to the goods in 
question is not actually registered in the said country. 
 Article 48.  The Rights of Foreign Individual Manufacturers and Legal Persons  
 (1) Foreign individual manufacturers and legal persons shall enjoy the rights prov ided for by this Law 
and shall be equally liable with individual ma nufacturers and legal persons in the Republic of 
Armenia, in accordance with the in ternational agreements to which the Republic of Armenia is a party 
or on the basis of the principle of reciprocity.  (2) The right to register and use an appellation in the Republic of Armenia shall be granted to 
individual manufacturers and legal persons of States granting a similar right to individual 
manufacturers and legal persons in the Republic of Armenia. 
 Article 49.  International Agreements 
 If the international agreements to which the Re public of Armenia is a party make alternative 
provisions to those specified by this Law, the prov isions of the internati onal agreements shall be 
applied.  Article 50. Transitional Provisions  
 (1) The validity of registration of the trademarks regi stered prior to the entry into force of this Law, 
and also the registration of the appellations of origin  and certificates for the right to use those marks, 
shall continue to be valid.  (2) Applications for the registration and/or use of tr ademarks and appellations of  origin, filed with the 
Authorized Body prior to the entry into force of th is Law, and consideration of which is incomplete, 
shall be examined in accordance with  the requirements of this Law. 
 (3) The Law of the Republic of Armenia on Tradem arks, Service Marks and Appellations of Origin, 
adopted on May 12, 1997, is hereby repealed.  5. The appeals having the bases provided by subp aragraph “b” of paragraph 4 of Article 11 and 
subparagraph “b” of paragraph 1 of  Article 28 of this Law may be submitted to the Board of Appeal 
since July 1, 2005.  6. Subparagraph 3 of Article 7 a nd subparagraph 3 of Article 12 of this Law shall come into force 
since October 1, 2005. 
 
7. With applications filed with the Authorized Body in contravention of the requirements of 
paragraph 1 Articles 3 of this Law a) the examination shall be continued with considera tion of the provisions provided by this Law if the 
examination of those applications are not fulfille d yet or the decision of the examination is in 
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b) the Authorized Body shall register the tr ademark notifying the applicant in written on the 
requirements of paragraph 3 of Article 3 if the d ecision on registration of the trademark is already 
taken and the applicant has in the prescribed ma nner submitted the fee payment order receipt for 
registration of the mark in the order established by the Law.  President of the Republic of Armenia      R. Kocharyan  
 
Entry into force: April 15, 2000 
 
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