European Union
Albania
Industrial Designs
20. Please explain how your legislation protects right holders of a design against importing of articles bearing embodied or copied design.
These rights are protected by Article 67 of the law, which reads: 1) The owner of the registered design shall have the right to prevent third parties from making, importing, offering to supply or distributing, or having in their possession for these purposes, any products that incorporate the registered design or closely similar design, when such acts are undertaken for commercial purposes. 2) Paragraph (1) of this Article shall not have effect in respect of mentioned products in that paragraph, which have been put on the market in the territory of the Republic of Albania, or in any territory specified in bilateral or multilateral agreement of the Republic of Albania. 3) The rights conferred by the registration shall not extend to equipment on ships, aircraft and any other vehicles not registered in the territory of the Republic of Albania, when these temporarily enter in the territory of the Republic of Albania, as well as the importation of spare parts and accessories for the purpose of repairing such vehicles and the execution of repairs on such vehicles.