National Phase of PCT: under Chapter I: 31 months; under Chapter II: 31 months.
Validity: issued after full examination - valid for 20 years.
Annuities: are due from the second year after filing.
Opposition to granted patent: to be filed before a court.
Kinds of protection: word marks, device marks and other distinctive combinations thereof, in color or color combinations, holograms, sounds. Service marks are registrable. Besides the original version, filing of word mark applications in the Armenian script is highly recommended.
Classification: International.
Obligation to use the registered mark: compulsory. An interested third party may request the cancellation of a mark if it has not been used during three consecutive years after the registration date (to be filed before the court only); nominal use (advertising, publications) is accepted in absence of actual use.
Duration - renewals: 10-year period after the filing date, renewable for further 10-year periods.
Opposition: possible within a two-month period after publication of the application, or cancellation during the entire period of validity, or in some cases, within a period of five years after publication (if a prior registration exists).
Duration – renewals: 5 years from the filing date with possibility of renewals up to 25 years.
Opposition: as for patents.
Duration – renewals: one to five years, renewable.
Uniform dispute resolution procedure: before WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center.
Area: 29,800 sq. km.
Population: 3,000,000 inhabitants (estimated 2016).
Capital: Yerevan, with about 1,100,000 inhabitants (estimated 2016).
Language: Armenian.
Currency: Dram.
Armenia used to be part of the former Soviet Union. The Republic of Armenia was proclaimed an independent State by Parliament on September 21, 1991, following the adoption of the Declaration of Independence of August 23, 1990.
Member of the Eurasian Patent Convention since February 27, 1996.
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