Zhetpisbaev B.A.
Doctor of Law, professor of Law faculty, Al-Farabi Kasakh National University
Zhanibekov
A.K.
Doctor
of PhD, associate professor of
Department of Criminal law,
Criminal procedure and Criminalistics,
Law faculty, Al-Farabi Kazakh
National University
MECHANISMS
FOR PROTECTING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
Intellectual property means the creation of the human
mind: inventions, literary and artistic works, symbols, names and images used
in commerce. Intellectual property is divided into two main categories:
Industrial property includes patents for inventions, trademarks, industrial
designs and geographical indications. Copyright includes literary works such as
novels, poems and plays, films, musical works, works of art such as drawings,
paintings, photographs, sculptures and architectural structures. Related rights
include the rights of performing artists for their performance, the rights of
producers of phonograms and the right of broadcasting organizations to their
radio and television programs [1, p. 2].
Intellectual property
rights, like other property rights, allow the author or owner of a patent,
trademark or copyright to benefit from his work or creative contribution. These
rights are set forth in Article 27 of the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights, which establishes the right to take advantage of the protection of
moral and economic interests resulting from authorship of any scientific,
literary or artistic work. First, the importance of intellectual property was recognized
in the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property in 1883 and
in the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works in
1886. The administration of both
treaties is administered by the World Intellectual Property Organization
(WIPO).
There are a number of
undeniable arguments for the protection of intellectual property rights.
Firstly, the development and
welfare of mankind depends on its ability to create new technical inventions
and cultural values.
Secondly, the legal
protection of these inventions and values contributes to
attracting additional resources, which leads to further development of
innovation activities.
Thirdly, the promotion of
the development and protection of intellectual property causes rapid economic
growth, creates new jobs and new industries and improves the quality of human
life, allowing it to enjoy it more fully. An effective and equitable
intellectual property system can help all countries to understand the potential
of intellectual property as a powerful tool for economic development and social
and cultural well-being. The intellectual property system helps to establish a
balance between the interests of innovators and the general public, providing
an environment which creative and inventive
activities can flourish for the benefit of all [1, p. 3].
The existence of a system
for the protection of rights is primarily due to the right allocation of
citizens and organizations. The rights proclaimed become real if only there is
a certain guarantee of their feasibility, namely, a system for protecting not
only violated, but also normally exercised rights. T.E. Abov is undoubtedly
right in asserting that "if subjective law is a measure of possible
behavior, then the protection of law must
be first of all to create the
conditions under which this opportunity could become a reality" The notion
of "protection of rights" covers all those admitted in law Forms,
methods, ways of ensuring rights (including those violated). In turn, for
brevity of form, methods and ways, we tend to call "legal resourses".
The system of protection of
rights includes a component and the main part of subsystem of measures of
protection of subjective rights, which comes into effect when they are
violated. Other components, according to Ò.Å. Abov, are measures of state
coercion and measures of material encouragement, and according to Yu.G. Basina
- means of restoring the violated right and satisfying the legitimate interest
[2].
The views expressed here
show that the civil rights protection system is the broadest category, which
includes a variety of different groups of legal means in the direction of
action.
The whole system of
intellectual property protection is reduced to copyright, patent and legal and
mixed methods, characterized by varying degrees of formalization and state
participation in the establishment and consolidation of rights to the relevant
objects of intellectual property [3].
At the same time, we believe
that even these three categories are amenable to classification and they can be
subdivided into universal and special ways of protecting different volumes. In
this case, the universal way is, undoubtedly, the copyright method of
protection of intellectual property.
A) The copyright method.
The
main "unit" or, in the language of the Law on Copyright and Related
Rights, the object of copyright is a work. It is correctly noted in the
literature, the legislation of Kazakhstan and Russia does not contain a legal
definition of the work, indicating that copyright extends to works of science,
literature and art that are the result of creative activity and expressed in
objective form. In this case, its purpose, dignity, mode of expression, the
fact of promulgation or non-informatization.
The copyright method of protection
in this case is that the essence is not protected, but the form of the work.
Legislatively, the essence of this method is expressed in the fact that
"copyright does not apply to ideas, concepts, principles, methods,
systems, processes, discoveries, facts" (Article 6 of the Copyright Law of
the Republic of Kazakhstan). Of course, there are some doubts as to whether it
is possible to protect the form itself. It is hardly possible to clearly
separate the form from the content of the work. The product is most likely a
unity of form and content. When protecting the form (language, style of
presentation, etc.), of course, the plot and other elements of the content of
the work are protected [3].
B) Patent method and
patenting systems. June 18, 1992. By the Decree of the President of the
Republic of Kazakhstan, the National Patent Office of the Republic of
Kazakhstan was established, and this is the beginning of the process of
introducing patent protection of industrial property objects - inventions, utility
models and industrial designs on the territory of our country.
So, the patent is regarded
as a document of award and contract. Rights based on a patent which called
rights granted by the state. But such relationships are always mutual and the
patent owner, in turn, must sacrifice something for the state. In response to
the grant, the patentee discloses to the state and society an invention that
could for a long time remain unknown. This reciprocity allows us to interpret
the patent as a contract, the terms of which are set out not in the security
document itself, but in the patent legislation.
In addition to the main
copyright law and patent law methods for the protection of intellectual
property objects, there are mixed methods that are a modification of the two
above-mentioned basic methods or a combination of their individual elements. In
the classification of art. 961 of the Civil Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan
this concerns a group of objects, which we have called atypical institutions of
intellectual property law.
We tend to systematize all
atypical ways of protection, building them on the basis of the proximity of
each of them to one of the main ways of protection, leaving, however, a special
place of undisclosed information, including the secrets of production
(know-how).
The copyright regime is
close to the protection of topologies of integrated microcircuits, and to
patent and legal - a similar mode of selection achievements.
In the legislation and literature of a number of
countries, the list of a typical institutions is differently defined.
Thus, the elements of
protection of topologies of integrated microcircuits are similar to analogous
elements of copyright protection in that, like a work, topology should be
original (Article 1013 of the Civil Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Article
4 of the Law on Topologies), that is unique, unique. In the copyright law (item
4 of article 971 of the Civil Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan), ideas,
concepts, principles, methods, systems, processes, discoveries, facts are not
protected. Likewise, legal protection does not extend to the content part of an
integrated microcircuit - ideas, methods, system, technology or encoded
information that can be embodied in topology.
According to the law
enforcement and controlling bodies of Kazakhstan, the share of counterfeit and
falsified products in the consumer market is also increasing in our country
according to the widest range. For certain groups of goods - perfumes and
cosmetics, shoes, clothes, synthetic detergents, meat, dairy and fish canned
food, tea, coffee and confectionery products, 30 to 50% of them are in
circulation are counterfeit or falsified. About 20% of alcoholic beverages sold
on the market are also recognized as adulterated. Of particular concern is the
problem of counterfeiting medicines [4].
References:
1. World Intellectual Property Organization. What is
IP? //www.wipo.int/edocs/pubdocs/en/intproperty/450/wipo_pub_450.pdf
2. Kaudyrov Ò.Å. Civil-law protection of industrial
property in the Republic of Kazakhstan. - Almaty: Zheti Zhargy,
2001.//http://bibliotekar.kz/
3. Abdakimova DA Sources of international intellectual
property law // Vestnik of the University of Karaganda, 2005 // http:
//articlekz.com/article/4673
4. Tulkibaev A. Protection of Intellectual Property by
the Justice Authorities. Prevention and suppression of offenses in the field of
intellectual property // Intellectual property of Kazakhstan (scientific and
practical journal). - 2010. - ¹2. - P. 29-33.