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    GOVERNMENT APPROVES PACKAGE OF BILLS ON REGULATION OF TRADEMARKS

    NOYAN TAPAN
    OCTOBER 22, 2009
    YEREVAN

    At the October 22 sitting, the Armenian government approved a
    package of the following bills: the bill on trademarks, the bill on
    geographical indications, the bill on making additions and amendments
    to the RA Civil Code, abd the bill on making additions and amendments
    to the RA Law on State Duty. Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan said that
    adoption of the bills is conditioned by the necessity to improve the
    system of legal protection of trademarks and to bring the Armenian
    legislation on intellectual property into line with the EU legislation.

    He said some enterprises have problems related to the package, adding
    that the example of European countries shows how such problems should
    be dealt with and it is necessary to follow their example.

    "There is another problem which was raised during the recent visit of
    a delegation from Kharkov. In particular, the director of a famous
    Kharkov plant asked us to help with the sale of their traditional
    goods such as chocolate and cakes in Armenia. They have difficulty
    selling their goods here because their rival has registered these
    trademarks in Armenia," the prime minister said, adding that no
    products are manufactured under this brand in our country: the aim
    is simply to force the rivals out of the competition field. According
    to T. Sargsyan, such complaints have been also received from Russian
    partners who said that if the problem is not solved, they will take
    similar measures against Armenian producers.

    During a briefing held following the government sitting, RA Deputy
    Minister of Economy Vahe Danielian stated that the improvement of
    legal protection of trademarks means first of all improvement of the
    mechanisms for ensuring legal protection. There is a necessity to
    envisage such a procedure of providing legal protection to trademarks
    which will allow the holders of rights that emerged earlier to learn
    about and, if necessary, to object to the registration of trademarks
    whose use would violate their rights. In fact, this problem is solved
    in the bill envisaging that within two months after the publication
    of information about the registered trademarks, any interested person
    may file a complaint against their registration, as a result of which
    a desision will be made either to declare the registration of the
    given trademark fully or partly invalid or to leave it in force.
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