| Applicant | Individuals and legal entities |
| Registrable | Inventions and utility models |
| Patentability criteria | Inventions: novelty, inventive step, industrial applicability
Utility models: novelty, industrial applicability |
| Objects of invention (utility model) | Inventions: product (device, substance, strain of microorganism culture, cells of plants and animals); process (method); new use of a known product or process
Utility models: device |
| Fee reduction | Reduced in case an inventor and an applicant are the same person |
| Validity of invention (utility model) | Inventions: 20 years from the filing date
Utility models: 5 years from the filing date and reneweble within 5 years period |
| Member of |
PCT, Paris Convention, Eurasian Patent Convention |
| POA |
Hard copy of the simply signed POA is required. No notarization or legalization is needed |
| Patent Attorney | Required for non-resident applicants/holders |
| Customs | Patented objects may not be entered into the Customs Register |
| Language | Belarusian or Russian |
