National Phase of PCT: under Chapter I: 30 months; under Chapter II: 31 months.
Validity: twenty years from the filing date.
Annuities: the accumulated annuities are payable after receipt of the allowance decision; subsequent annuities are due on the anniversary of the filing date.
Opposition: is possible within six months from the publication of a patent application, and within six months following the publication of a granted patent.
Kinds of protection: trademarks and service marks (word marks, device marks and combinations thereof). Besides the original version, filing of word mark applications in the Azeri language, as well as in the Cyrillic alphabet is highly recommended, as the Russian language is still being a parallel language in the country.
Classification: International.
Obligation to use the registered mark: must be used; if not used within any five-year period after the registration (or last use) date, the mark can be cancelled upon request of an interested party; nominal use (advertising, publications) is accepted in absence of actual use.
Duration – renewals: 10-year period after the filing date or last renewal date (note: marks re-registered on the basis of the former Soviet Union registrations are due for renewal 10 years after the Azeri filing date, or the last renewal date in the former Soviet Union).
Opposition: possible, within a five-year term after publication of the registered trademark.
Duration – renewals: 10 years from the filing date - can be extended for additional five years.
Opposition: is possible within six months from the publication of an industrial design application, and within six months following the publication of a granted industrial design.
Duration – renewals: one year, renewable yearly.
Uniform dispute resolution procedure: none.
Area: : 86,600 sq. km.
Population: 9,686,000 (estimated 2014).
Capital: Baku with about 2 million inhabitants.
Language: Azeri.
Currency: Manat.
Azerbaijan used to be part of the former Soviet Union. The republic declared its independence on August 30, 1991. The Patent and License Department of the State Committee of Science and Technology was established in June 1993. The Office was re-organized, and the Patent Department of the State Committee for Standardization, Metrology and Patents established in August 2002.
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