REGISTRATION AND PROTECTION OF RIGHTS TO SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES

Abstract

The article, prepared on the basis of the author's report presented at the III International Scientific and Practical Conference “AVTOR/AUTHOR-2023”, in Moscow on the basis of the UNESCO Department of the National Research University Higher School of Economics, discusses issues related to registration and rights to scientific discoveries. Although the Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), concluded at Stockholm on July 14, 1967, states that scientific discoveries are among the subject matter of intellectual property [Article 2 [viii] subparagraph (4)], the issue of registration and legal protection of scientific discoveries is still open. As WIPO defines, scientific discoveries cannot be attributed to either copyright or patent law. But obviously, scientific discoveries objectively exist and they are very important for the scientific knowledge of nature and society. Therefore, it is necessary to investigate the history of the issue, various approaches in terms of the legal protection of scientific discoveries. Based on the analysis of the history of the issue and existing approaches to its solution, in terms of registration and legal protection of scientific discoveries, the author's concept of protection of scientific discoveries is proposed.