Legislation in the Sphere of Industrial Property
- Civil Code of the Republic of Belarus on December 7, 1998 No 218-Z
Section V. Exclusive Rights to Results of Intellectual Activity (Intellectual Property).
- Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus on July 9, 1999 No 275-Z
Article 201. Infringements of Copyright, Related Rights, and Patent Rights
Article 248. Illegal Usage of Business Reputation of a Competitor.
- Code of Administrative Offences of the Republic of Belarus on April 21, 2003 No 194-Z
Article 9.21. Infringements of Copyright, Related Rights, and Patent Rights
Article 11.26. Illegal Usage of Business Reputation of a Competitor.
- Procedural-Executive Code of Administrative Offences of the Republic of Belarus on December 20, 2006 No 194-Z
Article 3.30. Persons Authorized to Draw up Protocols on Administrative Violations.
- Tax Code of the Republic of Belarus (Special Part) on December 29, 2009 No 72-Z Chapter 28. Patent Fees.
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Law of the Republic of Belarus "On Counteraction to Monopolistic Activity and Competition Development" on December 10, 1992 No 2034-XII.
- Edict of the President of the Republic of Belarus "On Administrative Procedures Undertaken by Governmental Bodies and Other Organizations on Applications of Citizens” on April 26, 2010 No 200 Chapter 19. Protection of Industrial Property.
- Edict of the President of the Republic of Belarus on May 26, 2011 No 216 "On Measures of Improvement of the Efficiency of Usage of Intellectual Property".
- Provisions on Interaction of Governmental Bodies, Law Enforcement Agencies in the Sphere of Intellectual Property Protection (approved by Regulation of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus of the Republic of Belarus on August 5, 2005 No 871
- Statute of the National Center of Intellectual Property (approved by Regulation of the Council of Ministers on May 31, 2004 No 641).
- Provisions on the Procedure and Conditions for State Stimulation of Creation and Use of Industrial Property Objects (approved by Regulation of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus on March 6, 1998 No 368.
- Provisions on Service Industrial Property Objects (approved by Regulation of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus on December 23, 1998 No 1957 (ed. on February 2, 2011).
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Regulation of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus on March 21, 2009 No 346 "On Registration of License Agreements, Assignment Agreements, Pledge Agreements and Agreements of Complex Business Licenses (Franchise)".
- Regulation of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus on December 22, 2009 No 1679 "On Approval of the Procedure of Filing Complaints, Objections, Applications for Consideration to the Board of Appeals of the Patent Office".
- Regulation of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus on February 17, 2010 No 209 "On Approval of Rationalization Activity in the Republic of Belarus".
- Statute of the Board of Appeals of the Patent Office (approved by Resolution of the Committee on Science and Technology of the Republic of Belarus under the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus on January 10, 2003 No 2 (ed. on November 29, 2004).
- Provisions on Official Publications of the National Center of Intellectual Property (approved by Resolution of the State Committee on Science and Technology of the Republic of Belarus on September 26, 2005 No 12.
- Instructions on the Procedure of Registration of License Agreements, Assignment Agreements, Pledge Agreements and Agreements of Complex Business Licenses (Franchise) (approved by Resolution of the State Committee on Science and Technology of the Republic of Belarus on April 15, 2009 No 6. (ed. on February 5, 2015).
- Resolution of the State Committee on Science and Technology of the Republic of Belarus on January15, 2008 No 2 "On Conferring Authority to Draw up Protocols on Administrative Violations".
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Law of the Republic of Belarus on December 16, 2002 No 160-Z 2016-06-15 "On Patents for Inventions, Utility Models and Industrial Designs".
- Provisions on Secret Inventions, Utility Models, Industrial Designs (approved by Regulation of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus on July 2, 2003 No 900).
- Provisions on Extension of Patents for Inventions, Utility Models, and Industrial Designs (approved by Regulation of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus on December 15, 2010 No 1824).
- Provision on Application Drafting Procedure for Invention Patents, Examination and Decision Making Procedures (approved by Regulation of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus on February 2, 2011 No 119).
- Provision on Application Drafting Procedure for Utility Model Patents, Examination and Decision Making Procedures and Provision on Procedure of Information Retrieval on Utility Model Applications (approved by Regulation of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus on February 2, 2011, No 120).
- Provisions on Application Drafting Procedure for Industrial Design Patents, Examination and Decision Making Procedures (approved by Regulation of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus on February 2, 2011 No 121).
- "On Establishment of Forms of Documents for Invention Patents" Resolution of the State Committee on Science and Technology of the Republic of Belarus of July 5, 2018 No 16.
- "On Establishment of Forms of Documents for Utility Model Patents" Resolution of the State Committee on Science and Technology of the Republic of Belarus of July 5, 2018 No 17.
- "On Establishment of Forms of Documents for Industrial Design Patents" Resolution of the State Committee on Science and Technology of the Republic of Belarus of July 5, 2018 No 15 .
- Provisions on Utility Model Examination Procedures on Compliance with Conditions of Patentability and Decision Making Thereof (approved by Regulation of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus on May 7, 2018 No 340).
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Law of the Republic of Belarus on February 5, 1993 No2181-XII "On Trademarks and Service Marks".
- Regulation of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus on December 28, 2009 No 1719 "On Approval of Provisions on Procedure for Registration of Trademarks and Service Marks, and Amendments to Some Regulations of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus".
- Terms of Recognition of Trademarks as well known in the Republic of Belarus (approved by Resolution of the State Patent Committee of the Republic of Belarus on August 09, 2001 No 2 (ed. on June 25, 2004).
- Resolution of the State Committee on Science and Technology of the Republic of Belarus on January 12, 2010 No 1 "On Approval of Forms" (ed. on April 30, 2013).
- Resolution of the State Committee on Science and Technology of the Republic of Belarus on January 12, 2010 No 2 "On Trademark Certificates".
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Law of the Republic of Belarus on July 17, 2002 No 127-Z "On Geographical Indications".
- Provisions on Application Drafting Procedure for Registration and Granting the Right to Use Appellations of Origin (approved by Regulation of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus on April 30, 2010 No 661).
- Resolution of the State Committee on Science and Technology of the Republic of Belarus on April 30, 2010 No 11 "On Establishing Application Forms for Registration and Granting the Right to Use Appellations of Origin and Granting the Right to Use Registered Appellations of Origin".
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Law of the Republic of Belarus on April 13, 1995 "On Plant Variety Patents".
- Regulation of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus on April 1, 2010 No 492 "On Some Issues on Variety Testing Patentability".
- Regulation of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus on May 30, 2014 No 525 "On Establishment of Additional Requirements for Names of Plant Varieties and Repeal of Regulation of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus on September 8, 2009 No1152".
- Regulation of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus on July 12, 2014 No 675 "On Approval of Provisions on Examination Procedure of Application for Plant Variety Patents a and Decision Making Procedure, and Amendments to Regulation of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus on April 1, 2010 No 492 and Repeal of Regulations of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus and their structural components".
- Regulation of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus of August 12, 2014 No 781 "On Management 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 on June 23, 2014 No 31 "On Establishment of the List of Genera and Species of Plants, Varieties of which are Subject to Field or Other Tests Conducted 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 on August 4, 2014 No 38 "On Establishment of Report Forms on Evaluation of Plant Varieties to Meet Conditions of Patentability".
- Resolution of the State Committee on Science and Technology of the Republic of Belarus on July 12, 2014 в„– 9 "On Some Issues on Application Drafting for Plant Variety Patents".
- Resolution of the State Committee on Science and Technology of the Republic of Belarus on July 12, 2014 No 10 "On Confirmation Order of Authors’ Consents (co-authors) in Respect of Plant Varieties Naming".
- Resolution of the State Committee on Science and Technology of the Republic of Belarus on February 5, 2015 No 4 "On Approval of Management Procedures of the State Register of Protected Varieties of Plants of the Republic of Belarus".
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Law of the Republic of Belarus on December 7, 1998 No 214-Z "On Legal Protection of Topographies of Integrated Circuits".
- Provisions on Application Drafting Procedure for Registration of Topographies of Integrated Circuits (approved by Regulation of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus on April 28, 2010 No 628.
- Resolution of the State Committee on Science and Technology of the Republic of Belarus on April 30, 2010 No 12 "On Establishment of Application Forms for Granting Certificates on Topographies of Integrated Circuits, and Power of Attorney to Represent interests of an Applicant (Applicants) at the Patent Office".
