Theory and practice of intellectual property
№ 6 / 2023

ISSN (Print) 2308-0361
ISSN (Online) 2519-2744

DOI: https://doi.org/10.33731/62023.293215

Submitted     2023-09-12
Accepted      2023-10-31
Published      2023-12-17

The activity of a judicial expert as an indicator of the effectiveness of the legislation in the field of industrial property rights

Oleksandr Zhikharev
Researcher of the Department of industrial property and commercialization of intellectual property objects of the Intellectual Property Scientific Research Institute of the National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine
Ukraine
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7433-5979

Abstract
The article is devoted to the study of judicial expert activity as a tool for the identification of shortcomings in intellectual property legislation, in particular in the field of industrial property.

Systematization of legislation in the field of industrial property is one of the forms of legislative improvement. Systematization involves lawmaking activities aimed at eliminating previously identified legislative deficiencies.

One of the tools for identifying legislative shortcomings is the study of law enforcement activities. Unfortunately, law enforcement activities only consider compliance with existing legal provisions and do not consider the problems created by the absence or incompleteness of existing legal provisions.

Judicial expert activity in the field of intellectual property has its own unique properties related to the special knowledge of judicial experts. The subject of a judicial expert in the field of intellectual property is both the study of the results of intellectual and creative activity in intangible form and the objects in which these results are embodied. The task of a judicial expert in this area is also to study the legal nature of these objects. These features of judicial expertise in the field of intellectual property together lead to the possibility of identifying deficiencies in the field of industrial property.

As an example, the article analyses the infringement of patent rights, which includes direct infringement and indirect infringement. According to the current legislation, there is only a direct infringement of patent rights in Ukraine. Direct infringement involves copying a patented product as it is patented. Indirect infringement also includes additional conditions for infringement, for example, manufacturing the main part of the product without one element. This element can be added to the product later. This leads to unlaw-
ful circumvention of the patented invention. The situation described above was identified during judicial activities.

As a proposal to improve the legislation in the field of industrial property, it is necessary to define indirect infringement of patent rights in national legislation. Such a definition can be made either by amending the current legislation or by systematizing the industrial property legislation.

Keywords: industrial property law, legislative shortcomings, systematization of law, judicial expert activity

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