Регистрация распоряжения исключительным правом и последствия ее отсутствия

Закон. 2024. № 12. С. 146–161.

Геец К. В.

Russian Civil contains an exhaustive list of methods of exclusive rights’ disposal subject to registration. The number of disposal methods is not limited by law: accordingly, not all of them are subject to registration. First of all, this is a unilateral transaction of the right holder, which contains permission to use the object of intellectual property rights (letters of consent). The order is also not subject to registration in contracts, the purpose of which is not related to the granting of the right to use the object, and the provision itself is only aimed at achieving the main contract’s goal. In practice, registration of the granting of the right to use a non-exclusive license makes no sense, because, unlike an exclusive license, it rarely affects the rights of third parties. In any case, for the parties to the license agreement, the absence of registration does not entail its invalidity. The inability to register the contribution of a right to the authorised capital may negatively affect the potential acquirer of such a right, therefore it seems important to finalise the relevant rules. Registration of a pledge and transfer of rights directly affects the rights of third parties and parties to the contract, therefore ignoring this requirement will entail negative consequences. In this case, the moment of transfer of the right in case of alienation and foreclosure is determined by making an entry in the register of Rospatent, and in case of succession — at the time of reorganisation or opening of inheritance.

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