“Today, any investor before investing in a business finds out who controls the intellectual property of the project. Although there are many areas of business, they all have one thing in common – they must record and control their intellectual property” – Denis Korzhitsky, First Vice Chairman of the State Committee on Science and Technology (SCST)

The participants of the International Seminar “Topical Issues of protection, enforcement and commercialization of intellectual property objects in the Republic of Belarus and abroad” showed a great interest in the issues of parallel imports.

The granting of legal protection to a trademark in the Russian Federation may be challenged and deemed invalid in full or in part during the entire period of validity of the legal protection, if the actions of the right holder related to the granting of legal protection to a trademark or another trademark similar to it to the degree of confusion are declared in accordance with the established procedure as abuse of right or unfair competition.

At the “Forum of Innovations. Russia-Belarus” hosted the First Session “Intellectual Property Russia-Belarus”

In order to advertise products, registration of a trademark in relation to services of class 35 ICGS is not necessary.

Designations which are identical or confusingly similar to a brand name protected in the Republic of Belarus (certain elements of that name), the right to which in the Republic of Belarus appeared to another person earlier than the priority date of the registered trademark, may not be registered as a trademark in respect of homogeneous goods.

Registration of a trademark presupposes its use. Legal protection of a trademark may be terminated prematurely in respect of all goods or part of the goods for individualization of which the trademark is registered, due to non-use of the trademark without valid reasons continuously during any three years after its registration.

To give a designation distinctiveness for the purposes of its registration as a trademark, it should be declared in a characteristic graphic manner of font design.

Computer applications can be protected by several types of intellectual property protection

The refined spirit of the residence of the Radziwill Princes in Niasvizh has become an energizer for a lively discussion of integration in the Eurasian space in the field of intellectual property.