THE ABSTARCT FROM THE LAW OF AZERBAIJAN REPUBLIC ON
“ANTIMONOPOLY ACTIVITY”

Section I
General provisions

Article 2. Area of appliance of the Law

3. The law does not cover the relations, following from the rights belonging to the owning persons on inventions, trademarks and copyright, except for cases of willful use of these rights with the purpose to restrict the competition.

Article 12. Patent license monopolism

To illegal actions of control organs and managing persons, abusing, with the purpose of restriction or riddance of competition on any goods market, with their monopoly right on patents and licenses are relate:

1) nonuse by the owner of his patent and baseless refusal in issuing of license on this patent by him.
2) restriction of technical politics of license recipient;
3) restriction of development of license technology by license recipient;
4) restriction of commercial activity of license recipient;
5) tightening by the owner of license at sale of license of its payment regime.

Article 14. Restriction of antimonopoly activity

In cases, when the managing persons, abuse their dominant situation, develop the monopoly activity and by their actions bring to restriction of competition and disturbance of consumer interests, and their decrease in the compulsory order does not seems to be possible by technological, territorial and organizational reasons, an appropriate organ of executive authority can enter in the organs of executive authority and control the appropriate proposals relatively:
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7) forced licensing of new patents for the relatively moderate payment in connection with abuse of managing person with his right on patent;
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