(WIPO code: BY) (last revised February 2024)

by KATZAROV SA, Geneva, Switzerland and PAG-E-PAG, Minsk - Mr. Sergey Vinogradov, Patent Attorney

General Information

Area

208,000 sq. km.

Population

9,200,861 (January 2023).

Capital

Minsk.

Languages

Belarusian (official), Russian (official).

Currency

Belarusian ruble (BYN).

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.