Registration period – about 20-24 months from the date of filing. Proof of registration – Certificate Procedures feature – From the date of filing you should regularly monitor trade mark applications to check whether any of them conflict with your trade mark.
Step |
Term |
Official notification |
Filing an application |
1 day |
Notification with entr. number, Name of applicant, Date and time of filing |
Formal examination |
3-4 months from the date of filing fee payment |
Notification. If the Rospatent detects any error, they will send Notification with proposition to correct it. 2 months to answer. |
Examination of absolute grounds for refusal |
About 20 months after previous step |
Notification. If the application doesn’t meet requirements, they will send Notification – Provisional refusal. 2 months to answer. |
Payment of registration, publication fees |
2 months after previous step |
Invitation for payment registration and publication fees . |
Publication |
3-4 months |
Certificate and publication |
1. The Applicant details
Legal Entity |
Physical person |
The full official name (Engl. translitaration) |
The Name (as it is in the passport and/or Engl. transliteration) |
A Legal address |
An address |
2. The image of the TM (jpg), The verbal elements, other 3. Goods and services / classes NCL 11-2018 (we‘ll help you to choose the classes for your goods/services) 4. POA (scanned copy without legalization)
Representation by a trademark attorney Foreign applicants must perform the trademark prosecution in Russia through an agent, a registered in Belarus trademark attorney.
Priority document The priority document must be submitted within three months from filing a trademark application in Belarus.
Translation. We translate from English/Ukrainian into Russian for free of charge.
Registration period – about 2-6 years from application filing date.
Proof of registration – Certificate.
Term of validity – 20 years from the application filing date. Patent for invention can be extended for additional 5 years if the object of the patent is the medicinal product, pesticide or agrochemical, when use of product requires permission of competent authority. Extension is provided if more than 5 years have passed from application filing date to the date of receipt of the first permission to use.
What can be protected: product; method; application of the process, method or product for a specific purpose, use of a product for treatment, diagnosis or prevention of the particular disease.
Step | Term | Official notification | Deadline |
Filing application | 1 day | Notification with registration number, name of applicant, date and time of filing. | Direct filing with claiming priority – 12 months from priority date1. PCT national phase entry in Belarus – 31 months from the priority date. |
Preliminary examination | 3 months from application filing date | Request to submit corrected or missing documents / Notification of completion of preliminary examination. | Responding to examination request – 3 months from date of receipt2. |
Patent examination | 1-5 years from filing of petition to proceed patent examination | Request to submit corrected documents / Decision of grant/refusal. | Filing petition to proceed substantive examination – within 3 years from application filing date. Responding to Patent examination request – 3 months from date of receipt3. |
Grant and Publication | within 6-7 months from grant fees payment | Certificate | Payment of grant and publication fees and submission of the description, abstract, drawings in 2 copies (if necessary) – 3 months from Grant decision receipt3. |
Annuity fees | each year | Invitation to pay annuity fees | Annuity fees are paid from the third year, counting from application filing date. Annuity fee for each subsequent year is paid during previous year4. |
1 – This term may be extended for 2 months, upon corresponding fee payment.
2 – This term may be extended for 3 months, upon corresponding fee payment.
3 – This term may be extended for 12 months, upon corresponding fee payment.
4 – This term may be extended for 6 months after the expiration of the payment period, the amount of official fees increases by 50%.
Registration period – about 6-7 months from application filing date.
Proof of registration – Certificate.
Term of validity – 5 years from the application filing date. Patent for utility model can be extended for additional 3 years.
What can be protected: device.
Step | Term | Official notification | Deadline |
Filing application | 1 day | Notification with registration number, name of applicant, date and time of filing. | Direct filing with claiming priority – 12 months from priority date1. PCT national phase entry in Belarus – 31 months from the priority date. |
Examination of utility model application | 3 months from application filing date | Request to submit corrected or missing documents / Decision of grant/refusal. | Responding to examination request – 3 months from date of receipt2. |
Grant and Publication | within 6-7 months from grant fees payment | Certificate | Payment of grant and publication fees – 3 months from Grant decision receipt. |
Annuity fees | each year | Invitation to pay annuity fees | Annuity fees are paid from the first year, counting from application filing date. Annuity fee for each subsequent year is paid during the previous year3. |
1 – This term may be extended for 2 months, upon corresponding fee payment.
2 – This term may be extended for 12 months, upon corresponding fee payment.
3 – This term may be extended for 6 months after the expiration of the payment period, the amount of official fees increases by 50%.
1. Applicant details.
Legal Entity | Natural person |
Full official name (English transliteration) | Name (as per passport and/or English transliteration) |
Legal address | Address |
2. Inventor details.
Natural person |
Name (as per passport and/or English transliteration) |
Address |
3. Number of International publication (PCT procedure) or Application materials: claims, description, abstract, drawings (non-PCT procedure; international application wasn’t published).
4. Belarusian or Russian translation of the application (we prepare by ourselves).
5. POA (no legalization or notarization required).
6. Certified copy of the priority application (if priority is claimed).
Representation by the invention attorney: Foreign applicants must perform the invention/utility model prosecution in Belarus through an agent, a registered in Belarus invention attorney.
POA and Belarusian or Russian translation of the application must be submitted within 2 months from the date of filing.
Priority documents must be submitted within 16 months from the priority date.