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LAW OF THE REPUBLIC OF BELARUS

of April 13, 1995 No. 3725-XII

About patents for plant varieties

(as amended on 11-12-2023)

Chapter 1. General provisions

Article 1. The main terms applied in this Law and their determinations

For the purposes of this Law the following main terms and their determinations are applied:

the author (coauthors) of grade of plant - physical person (physical persons), which creative activity (which) the plant grade is created or revealed and enhanced;

botanical taxon - the isolated group of plants, related among themselves community of signs and properties;

the applicant - person having the right to the patent according to this Law;

the official description of grade of plant - the document containing the description of the essential signs of grade of plant determined by public institution "State inspectorate for testing and protection of plant varieties" (further - the state inspection) and according to which the patent for plant grade is granted;

the statement - the official publication of public institution "National center of intellectual property" (further - patent body) issued on paper and electronic media, and also posted on the official site of patent body on the global computer Internet;

the patentee - person to whom the patent for plant grade is granted;

plant material - the whole plants or their generative and vegetative parts used not for reproduction of plants;

seeds of plants - actually seeds of plants, saplings, fruits, parts of difficult fruits, compound fruits, bulbs, tubers, meristematic materials and other generative and vegetative parts of plants intended for reproduction of plants;

office grade of plant - the plant grade created or revealed and enhanced by the worker in connection with accomplishment by it of the obligations caused by the employment contract or the specific task received from the employer or if activities which led to creation or identification and enhancement of grade of plant belong to sphere of activity of the employer and during creation or identification and enhancement of grade of plant by the worker were used of experience and (or) means of the employer;

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