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General Information

Area: 86.600 sq. km.
Population: 8,314,000.
Capital: Baku with about 2,000,000 inhabitants.
Language: Azeri.
Currency: Manat.

GENERAL REMARKS

Azerbaijan used to be part of the former Soviet Union. The republic declared its independence on August 30, 1991. The Patent and License Department of the State Committee of Science and Technology was established in June 1993. The Office was re-organized, and the Patent Department of the State Agency for Standardization, Metrology and Patents established in August 2002.

Former USSR industrial property rights filed prior to December 25, 1991, could be re-registered in Azerbaijan until December 31, 1995, and the corresponding Azeri Certificates of Registration have already been issued for all cases registered on the basis of the former Soviet Union rights.

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Patents of Invention

LEGAL BASIS

• Patent Law of July 25, 1997.

MEMBERSHIP IN INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS

• Paris Convention, since December 25, 1995.
• PCT, since December 25, 1995.
• Eurasian Patent Convention, since December 25, 1995.

FILING REQUIREMENTS

• Power of Attorney (no legalization; notarization required in absence of the applicant’s company seal);
• Specification, claims and abstract (if not available in Russian, preferably in English);
• Drawings;
• Priority document, if priority is claimed, to be filed within three months from the filing date.

REMARKS

National Phase of PCT: under Chapter I: 30 months; under Chapter II: 31 months.
Validity: twenty years from the filing date.
Annuities: the accumulated annuities are payable after receipt of the allowance decision; subsequent annuities are due on the anniversary of the filing date.
Opposition: not provided for.

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Trade and Service Marks

LEGAL BASIS

• Trademark Law of June 12, 1998.

MEMBERSHIP IN INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS

• Paris Convention, since December 25, 1995.
• Madrid Agreement, since December 25, 1995.

FILING REQUIREMENTS

• Power of Attorney (no legalization; notarization required in absence of the applicant’s company seal);
• Prints of the sign to be protected (25);
• List of goods and services, according to the International Classification; one application may include
  goods belonging to more than one International Class (to be translated into Azeri or Russian);
• Priority document, if any (to be filed within three months from the filing date).

REMARKS

Kinds of protection: trade marks and service marks (wordmarks, device marks and combinations thereof). Besides the original version, filing of wordmark applications in the Azeri language, as well as in the Cyrillic alphabet is highly recommended, as the Russian language is still being a parallel language in the country.
Classification: International.
Obligation to use the registered mark: must be used; if not used within any five-year period after the registration (or last use) date, the mark can be cancelled upon request of an interested party; nominal use (advertising, publications) is accepted in absence of actual use.
Duration – renewals: 10-year period after the filing date or last renewal date (note: marks re-registered on the basis of the former Soviet Union registrations are due for renewal 10 years after the Azeri filing date, or the last renewal date in the former Soviet Union).
Opposition: not provided for.

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Industrial Designs

LEGAL BASIS

• Patent Law of July 25, 1997.

MEMBERSHIP IN INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS

• Paris Convention, since December 25, 1995.

FILING REQUIREMENTS

• Power of Attorney (no legalization; notarization required in absence of the applicant’s company seal);
• Photographs and drawings;
• Specification of the design (if not in Russian, preferably in English);
• Priority document (if any).

REMARKS

Duration – renewals: 10 years from the filing date. Renewals are not provided by the law.
Opposition: not provided for.

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Domain Names

LEGAL BASIS

• There are no laws nor published regulations on domain name registration under the .az country code top-level domain name for Azerbaijan.

FILING

• ccTLD: .az
• Applicant: n.a.
• Local Presence: n.a.

REMARKS

Duration – renewals: n.a.
Uniform dispute resolution procedure: n.a.

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