The Legal Protection of Know-How

Student: Minin Sergey

Supervisor: Kirill Ryabov

Educational Programme: Civil Law and Commercial Law (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2018

This work is devoted to the issues of legal protection of know-how in the Russian Federation. The author examines the general qualities of know-how as an object of legal protection, the specifics of the right to know-how, the specifics and problem aspects of protecting the rights to know-how. The author comes to conclusions about the erroneousness of the legislative attribution of know-how to the objects of intellectual property, the absence of exclusive nature of the rights to it. The author proposes a system of methods for disposing of rights to it based on the analysis of the legal nature of know-how. The author identifies numerous practical problems related to the protection of rights to know-how. The paper contains proposals for improving the legislative regulation of the legal regime of know-how, aimed at eliminating the identified problems.

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