Problems of management of rights to the results of intellectual activity created using budget funds

Abstract

The article analyzes the problems arising from the commercialization of scientific results obtained using budgetary funds, due to the unresolved number of fundamental issues of managing the rights to such results of intellectual activity. The legal uncertainty of the agreement on the provision of subsidies for budget financing of research and the lack of a unified methodology for managing the rights of the Russian Federation to the obtained scientific and technical results are revealed. The authors showed that significant budgetary funds allocated for research in the framework of full life cycle projects, in the absence of a codified set of rules for creating intellectual property, cause serious problems in terms of the country’s successful scientific and technological development. As real measures to overcome the causes that are the source of risks for the implementation of ambitious plans for the scientific and technological development of the economy, the authors propose to develop and adopt uniform rules defining principles and measures for managing rights to the results of intellectual activity, ranging from the formation of an order, conditions and grounds for the distribution of rights to results of intellectual activity, as well as giving the Federal Agency full of powers and responsibility in the system of state policy. The proposed approach is necessary in justifying commitments to bring the development to the stage of industrial application and sale of finished products, as well as commitments to monitor the use of intellectual property and make decisions about the reasonableness of maintaining their legal protection.

Keywords

• scientific and technological development
• creation of intellectual property at the expense of public funds
• management of intellectual property
• codification of rules
• agreements
• subsidies
• grants