National Phase of PCT: under Chapter I: 31 months; under Chapter II: 31 months.
Validity: patent issued after formal and full examination - valid for 20 years from the filing date.
Annuities: are accumulated and due after the granting decision; starting with the 3rd year.
Opposition: is possible within six months after publication of the abstract in the Official Gazette.
Kinds of protection: individual and collective trademarks. Service Marks are registrable. Besides the original version, filing of the word mark applications in the Cyrillic alphabet is highly recommended.
Classification: International.
Obligation to use the registered mark: must be used; if not used within any three-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, renewable for further periods of 10 years.
Duration – renewals: after formal examination: 10 years. Renewable for an additional period of 5 years.
Opposition: is possible within six months after the publication in the Official Gazette.
Duration – renewals: one year, renewable yearly.
Uniform dispute resolution procedure: none.
Area: : 208,000 sq. km.
Population: about 9,495,000 inhabitants (estimated 2017).
Capital: Minsk.
Language: Belorussian (official), Russian.
Currency: Rouble.
One of the ex-USSR republics, now an independent State with its own Patent Office (Belgospatent). The first Belarusian Patent, Trademark and Industrial Design Laws came into force on February 5, 1993.
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