Patent Attorney/Trademark Attorney/Plant breeders’ rights Attorney in Belarus

We advise on full range of IP matters in Belarus. Our extensive experience in trademark matters in Belarus allows us to offer a broad range of services from defining a pre-filing protection strategy and conducting availability searches to handling the complete filing and prosecution process through registration. We also advise on post-granting procedures for national trademarks in Belarus and provide assistance with regard to many cases related to overcoming provisional refusals in Belarus against international applications filed through the WIPO’s Madrid System as well as successfully represented our clients on cancellation procedures in Belarus.

We provide services to conduct regular monitoring of trademarks in Belarus in order to discover attempts of registration of trademarks or designations similar to them by other persons. The regular monitoring includes on-line monitoring, sending cease and desist letters, out-of-court negotiations in Belarus.

Trademarks fulfil their function not only when they are actually used on or for goods or services, but also when they are used in advertising. The use of trademarks in advertising in Belarus requires an understanding of trademark law and the nuances involved. Their misuse in advertising can lead to legal complications. We partner with our clients to ensure compliance with local laws and, when necessary, provide assistance to defend our clients’ rights.

We have extensive experience in entering trademarks into the Belarussian Customs Register. Trademark owners are entitled to enter their trademarks into the Customs Register. This helps prevent counterfeits entering the country, as well as “parallel imports”. Thus, recording trademarks with the Belarus Customs Register is a highly recommended step which ensures better protection of trademark owners’ rights.

Based on clients’ enquiries we conducted due diligence, market monitoring services, licensing and assisted in the assignment of IP rights, customs protection in Belarus. We timely advise our clients about the strategic ways of using and protecting IPRs in Belarus and we do our best efforts in order to avoid litigation. However, in case of conflict, we have full capabilities to represent clients in opposition procedures, drafting of co-existence agreements, negotiation and even mediation during litigation in Belarus.

We help our clients to conduct IP due diligence and audits in Azerbaijan. In particular, we can identify and assess existing or potential issues relating to the intellectual property which clients find to be extremely useful in accurately valuing the deal.

Our IP services in Belarus include advising on trademarks, patents, industrial design rights, utility models, geographical indications, domain names.

Our recent experience in Belarus

– Settling dispute between the IT&Communication producers related to assignment of trademarks;
– Handling trademark portfolio of the world’s leading mining producer in Belarus; conducting pre-filing trademark clearance searches, advising on brand strategy as well as trademark renewal and assignment issues.

General information

Area: 207,595 sq. km.
Population: about 9,155,978.
Capital: Minsk.
Languages: Belorussian.
Currency: Rouble.