Legal aspects of protection of intellectual property objects in mining engineering

摘要

The innovative model of development of Ukraine requires implementation of measures aimed at stimulation and protection of intellectual property objects and development of such improved legislative basis in this sphere that would allow not only to preserve existing scientific potential but also to ensure proper protection of the rights of creators of such objects with possibility of their further commercialization. The necessity and expediency of introducing this legal protection improvement is shown on the example of such objects as scientific discoveries in mining engineering, business methods and innovative proposals. The article is devoted to the improvement of mechanism for legal protection of intellectual property rights to the intellectual activity results in context of integration processes that take place in Ukraine. A unified approach is proposed, which assumes revealing in practical part of each claimed object its protectable part, followed by procedure of patenting in accordance with the procedure stipulated by the current legislation.