Protection of the results of scientific activity: ethical and legal aspects

Abstract

Abstract Within the framework of this article, the authors make an attempt to analyze the ethical and legal foundations of regulating the issues of protecting the results of scientific activities, including those created by artificial intelligence systems. In the introduction, the authors analyze the general issues of regulating the protection of scientific results created through the use of the latest advances in technology. The article also draws attention to the experience of foreign states and supranational organizations in the field of patenting the results of scientific activities created by artificial intelligence systems, patent trolling as a vivid manifestation of the ethical and legal issues of protecting intellectual property rights, with particular emphasis on relevant judicial practice. In conclusion, the authors note the main trends in the development of legislation in the field under study, formulate recommendations to the domestic legislator based on the study of foreign experience in the legal regulation of artificial intelligence. This article will be useful for researchers, legal practitioners, graduate students, students and everyone who is interested in the problems of intellectual property rights in the context of using the latest technologies.