Licenses

License agreements, sublicense agreements granting the right to usethe following industrial property objects protected in the Republic of Belarus:

• inventions;
• utility models;
• industrial designs;
• plant varieties;
• topographies of integrated circuit;
• trademarks and service marks;

must be recorded in the State Register of License Agreements, Agreements on the Assignment of IPR and Agreements on the Pledge of IPR of the Republic of Belarus.

Under a license agreement a party that owns exclusive right to use an object of intellectual property (Licensor) grants to the other party (Licensee) permission to use that object of intellectual property. Royalty-free licenses of right to use the licensed object of intellectual property between commercial entities are not allowed, unless the law provides otherwise.

The license agreement may provide the licensee with the following rights:

• the right to use the licensed object of intellectual property while reserving to the licensor the right to use it and to grant other licenses in favor of third parties (simple, non-exclusive license);
• the right to use the licensed object of intellectual property while reserving to the licensor the right to use any part thereof not licensed to the licensee, but without the right to grant other licenses (exclusive license). If a license is silent about whether rights are exclusive or non-exclusive, the rights are intended to be non-exclusive, unless otherwise provided under the license agreement;
• other rights permitted under applicable law.