Intellectual property rights in software

Abstract

The article presents an urgent scientific problem, which is the need to establish the impact of reliable protection of intellectualproperty rights on software and its individual elements on the Europeanization of public administration in Ukraine, improving theinvestment climate, saving labor, accelerating public and private enterprises, institutions, organizations and boosting economic growth.Intellectual property rights underlie all the software industry. This term refers to a number of intangible property rights to an assetsuch as software. Each «right» to intellectual property is itself an asset, part of the overall property system. The law provides differentmethods of protecting these property rights depending on their type.There are essentially four types of intellectual property rights related to software: patents, copyrights, trade secrets, and trademarks.Each provides a different type of legal protection. Patents, copyrights, and trade secrets can be used to protect the technologyitself. Trademarks do not protect the technology, but the names or symbols used to distinguish the product on the market.Software can take the form of a computer program, a website, a mobile application, a distribution, and so on. Each of these formsmust consist of program code and personalization tools.In the current realities of digitalization of state and business review processes, intellectual property plays a role in shaping the economicstability of the state. The rapid pace of emergence and growth of technology, the spread of difficult foreign terminology in the fieldof software leaves room for research, creating new challenges and conditions for the synthesis of social sciences and engineering.Studying technologies, mastering and systematizing the principles of software – this is the main task facing lawyers-scientists inthe field of intellectual property.The lack of the combination in a single scientific work practical knowledge of programming and legal theories and practices ofsoftware protection creates a field for reflection and research on this topic.Because of the lack of scientific base and clear terminology in the field of software, problematic in Ukraine are the taxation ofoperations for the creation and implementation of software, legalization of relations between developers, and as a consequence – thelack of a unified policy for auditing and monetary evaluation of implemented computer programs.