Intellectual Property Protection

1. Results of intellectual activity:

• works of science, literature and art;
• performances, phonograms and transmissions of broadcasting organizations;
• inventions, utility models, industrial designs;
• plant varieties;
• integrated circuits layout;
• undisclosed information, including trade secrets (know-how);

2. Means of identification of the participants in civil transactions, goods, works or services:

• trade names;
• trademarks and service marks;
• geographical indications.

3. Other results of intellectual activity and means of identification of the participants in civil transactions, goods, works or services in cases provided for by this Code and other regulatory acts.

General issues

• Civil Code of the Republic of Belarus
  Section V. Intellectual Property
• Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus
  Article 201. Infringement of copyright, allied, invention and patent rights
  Article 248. Illegal use of competitor’s business worthiness
• Code of the Republic of Belarus on Administrative Offenses/a>
  Article 9.21. Infringement of copyright, allied and patent rights
  Article 11.26. Illegal use of competitor’s business worthiness
• Procedural and Executive Code of the Republic of Belarus on Administrative Offenses
  Article 3.30. Persons authorized to draw up protocols on administrative offenses
• Tax Code of the Republic of Belarus (Special Part)
  Chapter 27. Patent Fees
• Law of the Republic of Belarus No. 94-3 of December 12, 2013 “On counteracting monopolistic activities and competition development”
• Decree of the President of the Republic of Belarus No. 200 of April 26, 2010 “On administrative procedures carried out by government authorities and other organizations upon applications of citizens”
  Chapter 19. Protection of Industrial Property Items
• Decree of the President of the Republic of Belarus No. 298 of July 26, 2018“On payment of patent fees”
• Decree of the President of the Republic of Belarus No. 216 of May 26, 2011 “On measures to improve the efficiency of the use of intellectual property items”
• Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus No. 871 of August 5, 2005“On approval of the Regulation on interaction of the republican government authorities, law enforcement authorities in the field of intellectual property protection”
• Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus No. 641 of May 31, 2004 “On approval of the Regulation on the National Centre of Intellectual Property”
• Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus No. 368 of March 6, 1998 “On approval of the Regulation on procedure and conditions for state incentives for creation and use of the items of industrial property”
• Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus No. 1957 of December 23, 1998 “On approval of the Regulation on official industrial property items”
• Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus No. 346 of March 21, 2009 “On registration of license agreements, agreements on the assignment of rights to the industrial property items, agreements on the pledge of property rights certified by a trademark certificate, a service mark certificate, and agreements on a package business license (franchising)”
• Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus No. 499 of August 24, 2020 “On consideration of complaints, objections, applications by the Board of Appeal at the Patent Office”
• Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus No. 209 of February 17, 2010 “On approval of the Regulation on innovation in the Republic of Belarus”
• Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus No. 282 of March 15, 2004 “On the State Committee on Science and Technology of the Republic of Belarus”
• Resolution of the Committee on Science and Technology at the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus No. 2 of January 10, 2003 “On approval of the Regulation on the Board of Appeal at the Patent Office”
• Resolution of the State Committee on Science and Technology of the Republic of Belarus No. 12 of September 26, 2005 “On approval of the Regulation on official publications of the National Centre on Intellectual Property”
• Resolution of the State Committee on Science and Technology of the Republic of Belarus No. 6 of April 15, 2009 “On approval of the Instruction on the registration procedure for license agreements, agreements on the assignment of rights to the industrial property items, agreements on the pledge of property right certified by a trademark certificate, a service mark certificate, and agreements on a package business license (franchising)”
• Resolution of the State Committee on Science and Technology of the Republic of Belarus No. 1 of January 18, 2019 “On drawing up protocols on administrative offenses”
• Resolution of the State Committee on Science and Technology of the Republic of Belarus No. 13 of July 5, 2018 “On keeping of state registers of the items of industrial property”
• Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus No. 379 of March 11, 1998 “On approval of the Regulation on patent attorneys of the Republic of Belarus”

Inventions, utility models, industrial designs

• Law of the Republic of Belarus No. 160-3 of December 16, 2002“On patents for inventions, utility models, industrial designs”
• Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus No. 119 of February 2, 2011 “On approval of the Regulation on the procedure for drawing up an application for granting a patent for an invention, execution of an examination on it and making a decision based on the results of the examination”
• Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus No. 120 of February 2, 2011 “On approval of the Regulation on the procedure for drawing up an application for granting a patent for a utility model, execution of an examination on it and making a decision based on the results of the examination and the Regulation on the procedure for carrying out information search on the application for a utility model”
• Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus No. 121 of February 2, 2011 “On approval of the Regulation on the procedure for drawing up an application for granting a patent for an industrial design, execution of an examination on it and making a decision based on the results of the examination”
• Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus No. 900 of July 2, 2003 “On approval of the Regulation on secret inventions and utility models”
• Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus No. 1824 of December 15, 2010 “On approval of the Regulation on the procedure for extending the validity of patents for an invention, a utility model, an industrial design”
• Resolution of the State Committee on Science and Technology of the Republic of Belarus No. 16 of July 5, 2018 “On determining the forms of documents for granting a patent for an invention”
• Resolution of the State Committee on Science and Technology of the Republic of Belarus No. 17 of July 5, 2018 “On determining the forms of documents for granting a patent for a utility model”
• Resolution of the State Committee on Science and Technology of the Republic of Belarus No. 15 of July 5, 2018 “On determining the forms of documents for granting a patent for an industrial design”
• Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus No. 340 of May 7, 2018 “On approval of the Regulation on the procedure for checking a utility model for compliance with the patentability conditions and making a decision on its results”

Trademarks and service marks

• Law of the Republic of Belarus No. 2181-XII of February 5, 1993“On trademarks and service marks”
• Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus No. 1719 of December 28, 2009 “On approval of the Regulation on the procedure for registering a trademark and a service mark and on amending some resolutions of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus”
• Resolution of the State Patent Committee of the Republic of Belarus No. 2 of August 9, 2001 “On approval of the Rules for recognizing a trademark as well-known in the Republic of Belarus”
• Resolution of the State Committee on Science and Technology of the Republic of Belarus No. 2 of January 12, 2010 “On a trademark certificate”
• Resolution of the State Committee on Science and Technology of the Republic of Belarus No. 1 of June 29, 2016 “On determination of the forms of documents related to the legal protection of a trademark and a service mark”
• Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus No. 512 of August 28, 2020 “On giving consent to the use of certain designations”

Geographical indications

• Law of the Republic of Belarus No. 127-3 of July 17, 2002 “On geographical indications”
• Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus No. 468 of August 7, 2020 “On approval of the Regulation on the procedure for granting the right to use a geographical indication”
• Resolution of the State Committee on Science and Technology of the Republic of Belarus No. 11 of April 30, 2010 “On determination of application forms for registration and granting the right to use an appellation of origin and on granting the right to use a preliminarily registered appellation of origin”
• Resolution of the State Committee on Science and Technology of the Republic of Belarus No. 6 of July 20, 2020 “On determination of a standard contract form”
• Resolution of the State Committee on Science and Technology of the Republic of Belarus No. 7 of July 20, 2020 “On a certificate of the right to use a geographical indication”

Plant varieties

• Law of the Republic of Belarus No. 3725-XII of April 13, 1995“On patents for plant varieties”
• Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus No. 492 of April 1, 2010 “On some issues of variety testing for patentability”
• Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus No. 525 of May 30, 2014 “On establishing additional requirements for the denomination of a plant variety and revocation of the Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus No. 1152 of September 8, 2009”
• Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus No. 675 of July 12, 2014“On approval of the Regulation on the procedure for examining an application for granting a plant variety patent and making a decision on its results, amending the Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus No. 492 of April 1, 2010 and revocation of the resolutions of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus and their structural elements”
• Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus No. 781 of August 12, 2014 “On issues of keeping of the State Register of Protected Plant Varieties of the Republic of Belarus”
• Resolution of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Belarus No. 31 of June 23, 2014“On determining a list of plant genera and species, varieties of which are subject to the field or other tests carried out by the State Institution “State Inspection for Testing and Protection of Plant Varieties”
• Resolution of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Belarus No. 38 of August 4, 2014 “On determining the form of the report on the results of a plant variety assessment for compliance with the patentability conditions”
• Resolution of the State Committee on Science and Technology of the Republic of Belarus No. 9 of July 12, 2014 “On some issues of filing an application for granting a plant variety patent”
• Resolution of the State Committee on Science and Technology of the Republic of Belarus No. 10 of July 12, 2014 “On the procedure for giving consent by the author (co-authors) of a plant variety to the denomination of the plant variety”

Integrated Microcircuits Layouts

• Law of the Republic of Belarus No. 214-3 of December 7, 1998“On legal protection of integrated microcircuits layouts”
• Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus No. 403 of June 19, 2019 “On provision of legal protection for an integrated microcircuit layout”
• Resolution of the State Committee on Science and Technology of the Republic of Belarus No. 6 of June 20, 2019 “On determining the forms of documents for registering an integrated microcircuit layout”