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Laws

(With further amendments and supplements)
Adopted on
November 6, 2000

Law of the Republic of Armenia on Protection of Economic Competition

• Chapter 1 - General Provisions
• Chapter 2 - Anticompetitive Agreements
• Chapter 3 - Monopolistic Or Dominant Position
• Chapter 4 - Concentration
• Chapter 5 - Unfair Competition
• Chapter 6 - The State Body For Protection Of Economic Competition
• Chapter 7 - Liability For Violation Of This Law
• Chapter 8 - Final Provisions

Chapter 1: General Provisions

This Law regulates the economic and personal non-economic relationships connected with the creation, legal protection and utilization of invention, utility model and industrial design. The main conceptions used in this Law are:
Paris Convention – Paris Convention on industrial property protection, signed on March 20, 1883 with all further amendments and supplements.
WIPO – World Intellectual Property Organization
PCT – Patent Cooperation Treaty, signed on June 19, 1970, with PCT and Administrative instructions and further amendments and supplements.
Eurasian Convention – Eurasian Patent Convention, signed in Moscow on September 9, 1994.
TRIPS Agreement – Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, signed in Marrakech on April 15, 1994.
Locarno Agreement – Locarno Agreement on Industrial Design International Classification, signed in Locarno on October 8, 1968.
Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs – Hague Agreement on International Deposit of Industrial Designs, renamed as “Hague Agreement on International Registration of Industrial Design” on July 2, 1999.
Industrial Property Subject Matter – invention, utility model and industrial design.
State Authorized Body - State Body authorized by the Government of the Republic of Armenia to exercise functions concerning issuance of industrial property protection documents (patents and certificates) as well as other functions provided by this Law and its Statutes.
Applicant – natural or legal person, organization, in whose name the patent on invention or utility model or certificate on industrial design is requested.
Rightholder – a person, in whose name the patent on invention or utility model is granted, or industrial design is registered (exclusive right holder).
Application - Application seeking patent on invention, utility model or certificate on industrial design.
International application – application filed in compliance with PCT, according to which the applicant has met the requirements of the State Authorized Body provided by Article 22 of the above Treaty.
Eurasian application – application on Eurasian patent, filed in compliance with Article 15 (1) of the Eurasian Patent Convention.
Representative – a person authorized in the State Authorized Body to represent the applicant, rightholder or other interested person.
Date – day, month, and year.
Mutatis mutandis – for the purpose of respective amendments within the meaning of TRIPS agreement.
National Phase – international application examination according to National Legislation.

• a person or several persons are entitled to dispose of (including by trading, trust management, joint activity contracts, commission or other transactions), whether directly or indirectly, more than a half of the authorized capital or share of an organization as a result of a contract (concerted practices), according to the procedure defined by the legislation;
• a person or persons obtain, either on a contractual basis or otherwise, the possibility to predetermine the decisions (including conditions for conducting entrepreneurial activity) adopted by other person or persons, or to exercise the powers of executive body;
• a person is entitled to appoint a sole executive body and (or) more than a half of the composition of a collective executive body, and (or) more than a half of the composition of an organization’s management body has been elected upon his/her proposal;
• a natural person exercises the powers of an organization’s executive body;
• the same natural persons, their spouses, parents, children, brothers, sisters and (or) other persons, who are elected upon proposal of the same organization, constitute more than a half of the composition of two or more organizations’ management bodies, or upon proposal of the same organizations are elected in the composition of more than a half of their management bodies;
• the same natural persons, their spouses, parents, children, brothers, sisters and (or) legal entities are entitled to dispose of more than a half of shares in the authorized capital of more than one organizations;
• natural persons and(or) organization(s) dispose of, either independently or through their representatives, more than a half of shares in the authorized capital of one organization, and simultaneously the same natural persons, their spouses, parents, children, brothers, sisters, or persons proposed by the same organization constitute more than a half of the composition of an organization’s management body;
• natural persons are spouses, parents, children, brothers or sisters.