Issues of Authors’ Rights Protection of the Service Objects of Patent Rights

Abstract

Most of the objects of patent law are created as service objects. At the same time, despite a rather detailed regulation of the legal regime of service inventions and other objects of intellectual rights in the Civil Code of the Russian Federation and clarification in judicial practice, problems both in terms of legal regulation and in terms of law enforcement in this area remain unsettled. The paper discusses the reasons for the refusal to recognize and regulate as service objects the objects of related rights, the problems of the relationship between the regime of service secrets of production (know-how) and objects of patent law, in respect of which the employer decided to keep information secret, the issues concerning the legal regime of service objects created with the help of artificial intelligence, as well as ensuring the author’s right for remuneration for a service object of patent law based on the amendments to Federal Law No. 456-FZ dated 22 December 2020 «On Amendments to Parts Two and Four of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation and the Invalidation of Legislative Acts (Certain Provisions of Legislative Acts) of the Russian Federation», etc. Conclusions are aimed at protecting the rights of authors-employees, in particular at the need to recognize authorship for an employee who created artificial intelligence, etc. Taking into account different points of view and the law enforcement practice, the author draws special attention to the issues of recognition of the official result of intellectual work created by the person superior to the employer operating on the basis of an employment contract (in the absence of a task, notification of the employer, etc.), which is established on the basis of the relationship between the work carried out by the director of the work and the creation of this object, as well as co-ownership of the exclusive right to a service object created by employees and authors who are not employees.