The patent is valid for 25 years since the date of a variety registration in the Register of the protected varieties.

Our specialists will consult the trusters on the conditions of protection of the rights to the new plant varieties and new species of animals.

Our specialists will also inform selectionists on the conditions of acquisition of rights of property and personal non-property rights, regulated by the Law of the Republic of Belarus “On the Patents for the Plant Varieties”.

In connection with the fact that legal relationship appear in connection with creation, exposure, nurture, legal protection and use of plant varieties, for which the patents are granted, our specialists will provide the qualified record keeping on applications for obtaining of a patent for variety.

We will bring to the notice of the selectionist, the patent owner information on limitation of the exclusive rights, conditions of common knowledge of the variety, about the relations between the employee and employer, about the requirements to planting stock of the protected varieties from the part of the patent owner, about the organizational base of the legal protection of varieties and protection of the patent owners’ and authors’ rights.