(WIPO code: BY) (last revised July 2020)
by KATZAROV S.A., Geneva, Switzerland and PAG-E-PAG, Minsk - Mr. Sergey Vinogradov, Patent Attorney
Belarus
General Information
Area
208,000 sq. km.
Population
9,527,543 (estimated July 2018).
Capital
Minsk.
Languages
Belarusian (official), Russian.
Currency
ruble (BYN); 2.06 rubles = 1 U.S. dollar (September 2019).
General Remarks
One of the ex-USSR republics, Belarus is now an independent State with its own Patent Office (National Center of Intellectual Property - NCIP). The first Belarusian Patent, Trademark and Industrial Design Laws came into force on February 5, 1993.