ARMENIA LAW AND PRACTICE Contributed by: Aram Orbelyan, Narine Beglaryan, Artur Hovhannisyan, Lilit Karapetyan, Sarkis Knyazyan and Shushanik Stepanyan, Concern Dialog
relative grounds of refusal of trademark registra - tion, such as: • non-distinctiveness; • descriptiveness or genericism; or • being against public order or morals, etc. Trade marks are registered by the Intellectual Property Office of Armenia. The Office’s website has guidance on the procedure and samples of the necessary forms. The right-holder of a registered trade mark has the right to prohibit: • the use of a mark that is identical to its trade mark for the same products and/or services; • the use of an identical or similar mark for identical or similar goods and/or services if there is a likelihood of consumer confusion; and • the use of an identical or similar mark for dif - ferent goods and/or services if the trade mark is declared as well known in Armenia and the use of the mark may cause damage to the interests of the owner of the well-known trademark. The length of protection is ten years from the fil - ing date and can be renewed indefinitely every ten years. 7.3 Industrial Design An industrial design protects the unique and new appearance of an object. In the RA, the following are protected by the law: • a licensed (registered) industrial design, the right to which is approved by a patent; • an industrial design with international regis - tration in accordance with the law; and
• an unregistered industrial design if it has become public, in accordance with the law. Designs are registered with the Intellectual Prop - erty Office of Armenia. The Office’s website has guidance on the procedure and samples of the necessary forms. A right-holder has the right to prohibit use of a design without permission. Infringement can result in civil liability. The length of protection is five years from the filing date, and may be renewed every five years, but for no more than 25 years in total. 7.4 Copyright Copyright protects the unique outcome of a creative activity in the domain of science, litera - ture and art created individually or jointly with other authors, which are expressed in spoken, written or any other objectively perceivable man - ner, including those stored either permanently or temporarily in electronic format, regardless of the scope, significance, merits and purpose of creation. Subject matters of copyright are: • literary, scientific works, as well as computer programs; • works of painting, sculpture, graphics, design and other works of fine arts; • dramatic and dramatico-musical works, sce - narios, scenario sketches, librettos, and other works created for staging; • choreographic and pantomimic works; • musical works with or without words; • audiovisual works (cinematographic, televi - sion films, animation films and cartoon films, musical clips, advertisement, documentary and fact-documentary, and other films); • works of applied decorative art and stage graphics;
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