CHANGES IN LEGISLATION

16 august 2010

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The Law of the Republic of Belarus “On changes and amendments to certain laws of the Republic of Belarus on the matters pertaining to legal protection of patents for inventions, utility models, industrial designs” (hereinafter referred to as “Law”) has been elaborated with regards to the international and national law-enforcement policy and is aimed at realigning the procedure of providing legal protection to the objects of industrial property (inventions, utility models, industrial designs), harmonization of the national patent legislation with that of the Russian Federation.

The Law introduces changes and amendments to the Law of the Republic of Belarus of December 16, 2002 “On patents for inventions, utility models, industrial designs”  and to the Civil Code of the Republic of Belarus. In particular, the Law shall envisage:

1) realigning the procedure of providing legal protection to the objects of industrial property;
2) development of legal regulation of the service (or employee’s) industrial property objects;
3) limitation, simplification of administrative procedures of registration, administered by the national patent office, and also bringing the time limits and the administrative procedures of registration in conformity with the relevant laws on administrative procedures.