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Legislative Implementation of Flexibilities - Armenia

Title:Article 15 of the Law on Inventions, Utility Models and Industrial Designs of 10/06/2008
Field of IP:Patents
Type of flexibility:Utility models
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Provisions of Law

Article 15. Conditions for patentability of Utility Model

(1) Any new and industrially applicable solution that concerns a production (equipment, material) or a method (condition for patentability of utility model) shall be protected as a utility model in the order established by the Law.

(2) A utility model shall be considered to be new if it does not form separate part of the state of the art.

(3) The state of the art shall be defined to comprise any kind of information on technical solutions made available to the public anywhere in the world before the date of priority of the utility model concerned, as well as realization of these solutions in the Republic of Armenia. As well, the state of the art shall comprise the content of inventions and utility models by disclosed applications with earlier priority filed with the State Authorized Body, provided that the State Authorized Body subsequently publishes those applications or the patents granted on the basis thereof.

(4) The utility models shall not be considered patentable if:

(a) it is a technical solution on biological substance;

(b) it is a technical solution on chemical or pharmaceutical substances or means, as well as methods of human and animal curing;

(c) the subject matters mentioned in Article 10 (2) of this Law.

(5) The provisions of this Law on inventions, utility models shall be considered mutatis mutandis, unless otherwise provided by this Law.