Open AccessPATENTING OF SECRET INVENTIONS AND UTILITY MODELS AS A TOOL TO PROTECT THE NATIONAL INTERESSTS OF UKRAINE
Author(s) -
Михайло Вербенський,
Світлана Филь
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
teorìâ ì praktika ìntelektualʹnoï vlasnostì
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2519-2744
pISSN - 2308-0361
DOI - 10.33731/42020.216939
Subject(s) - intellectual property , legislation , secrecy , law and economics , trade secret , context (archaeology) , state (computer science) , property rights , business , law , computer security , political science , economics , computer science , paleontology , algorithm , biology
The article examines the issues of legal protection of secret inventions and utility models in the context of protection of national interests of Ukraine. The national procedure for acquiring property rights to inventions and utility models established by the norms of the current national legislation is analyzed. Comparing the mechanism of legal protection of intellectual property rights to open and secret technical developments, the peculiarities of acquiring rights to secret inventions (utility models) and the use of rights to such industrial property are highlighted.Examining the procedure for acquiring property rights to secret technical solutions and their implementation, it was found that the patent as a tool for legal protection of technical developments containing information classified as state secrets, has its own legal regime that combines current legislation in the field of state secrets and intellectual property. It is emphasized that a patent for secret objects of industrial property is issued for a period, as well as for open 20 years for the invention and 10 years for the rat model, but their validity depends on the period of secrecy of these developments. The use of rights arising from a secret patent also has its limitations, in particular: the patent owner may not authorize other persons to exercise the rights to such secret inventionsand utility models without the permission of a state secret expert. It is noted that the state monetary compensation to the owner of patented secret technical solutions for the payment of fees for filing an application and maintaining the validity of a secret patent generally does not compensate the owner of classified developments for all costs and restrictions associated with the possible use of such patents. Considering the content of criminal liability for illegal use of rights to patented secret developments, it was found that such an offense gives rise to a set of crimes.