RULES OF INTERNATIONAL LAW REGARDING APPLICATION OF THE RESULTS OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHES IN THE FIELD OF BIOTECHNOLOGY (ON THE EXAMPLE OF THERAPEUTIC AND REPRODUCTIVE CLONING AND HUMAN GENE EDITING) AND THEIR PATENT PROTECTION

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 199-209
Author(s):  
MARYAM AKHMADOVA ◽  

The article is aimed at highlighting a number of issues in the field of legal regulation of innovative medical technologies based on interference in the human genome and cloning (therapeutic and reproductive) in the context of international law (conventions, declarations, bilateral agreements). In this format, the author examined some international acts that created the legal paradigm for regulating scientific research in the field of study, determining the limits of the admissibility of the implementation of the indicated achievements of modern science in clinical medicine, which are designed to be an effective tool in the fight against severe hereditary diseases, etc., which potentially predetermines their demand. The focus of the author’s attention is on the patentability of these biotechnologies. The relevance of such a study is due to the range of issues addressed, since in the absence of proper regulatory regulation of the studied sphere of public relations, domestic high-tech medicine will be forced to engage in “catch-up” development. In the study, such methods of scientific knowledge were used as general scientific dialectics, formal logic and comparative legal methods. At the same time, the author proceeds from both subjective and objective presetting of processes and phenomena, and their interconnection. The novelty of the study is determined by its purpose, subject and range of sources considered. Thus, the author explores the provisions of both normative acts and documents (acts of so-called “soft law”), emphasizing the peculiarities of their legal nature. In this format, the author comes the conclusion that the system of international principles and standards, formed by the considered acts and documents, does not contain explicit permission to carry out scientific research in the biotechnology field with the subsequent commercialization of its results, which can be patented as inventions, that leads to the need to create national legal frameworks by modern states wishing to advance in this field that will result in a mosaic legal map of the world. Where innovative biotechnologies will be spread in the countries -“scientific offshores” providing loyal to these kinds of scientific researches legislation. The theoretical and practical significance of the results is determined by the fact that Russian readers will be provided with up-to-date scientific information on the state of international law in the field under study, which in practical terms will contribute to the awareness of the sufficiency (or insufficiency) of the developed international legal mechanism for regulating the sphere of biotechnology, including positions of patent and legal protection of a number of“breakthrough” biotechnologies of applied nature, and will also help to establish the unification level of domestic legislation with the approaches laid down in the studied international acts and documents.

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-182
Author(s):  
A. M. Kamalyan

The paper examines the legal regulation of scientific research in professional sports as in the case of Formula 1. It is emphasized that the owner of the rights to the results of scientific research can be not only the racing team itself, but also one of the closely related legal entities. Specific examples are provided demonstrating what can be protected by a patent and who can own intellectual property rights. It is noted that, despite a large number of high-tech solutions, Formula 1 teams often deliberately refuse to patent. An analysis of the situation in this sport shows that in the conditions of constant changes and improvements in racing cars, obtaining a patent is unjustified due to the length of this procedure. At the same time, the results of scientific research and scientific information are protected by the trade secret regime. It is stipulated that such a regime is accompanied by the risk of disclosure of confidential information by persons, primarily current and former employees. One of the biggest spy scandals in the history of Formula 1 is cited as an illustration. Particular attention is given to the problem of the transfer of staff members from one Formula 1 team to another, including the delineation of the employee’s own skills and the protected information obtained by him in previous work. In addition, it is emphasized that such transitions are often accompanied by compulsory leave without the right to go to a new job, so that the existing knowledge about the work of the former employer loses its relevance. It is also noted that the trade secret regime does not prevent Formula 1 teams from getting acquainted with the results of scientific research of their competitors due to the rules on the maximum openness of cars during the Grand Prix. Specific examples of borrowing by racing teams of successful engineering solutions of rivals by creating their own analogues are given.


2018 ◽  
Vol 81 (2) ◽  
pp. 28-37
Author(s):  
M. Y. Bukreev

The subject matter of the research is the relations that are formed in the process of banking operations. It has been substantiated that banks and the banking system are among the most important financial institutions, which proper and stable functioning influences on all other spheres of life in the state. It is proved by the consequences of crises in the banking sector that have occurred in Ukraine over the past few years. Awareness of the importance of this area and the possible consequences of unlawful encroachments have determined the need to search for all legal means for combating delicts in the sphere of banking operations. Understanding the fact that one can achieve significant results in the sphere of protecting banking operations by administrative and legal means, has necessitated this scientific study. In order to analyze banking operations as an object of administrative and legal protection, the author has fulfilled the following tasks. The author has highlighted the use of the concepts of “protection” and “administrative and legal protection” in the context of their implementation in relation to banking operations. The foundations of Ukrainian and international administrative and legal regulation of protecting relations in the sphere of banking operations have been revealed. The essence and features of banking operations influencing the understanding of the sphere of protected relations have been outlined; and the content of administrative and legal protection of relations in the field of banking operations has been revealed. It has been noted that there is an extensive system of banking legislation on legal norms in Ukraine regulating banking operations that require legal protection. The practical significance of the obtained results of the article is determined by the substantiated provisions for improving the approaches to increase the efficiency of the administrative and legal protection of the relations in the sphere of banking operations. A number of practical results of the research can be used while studying administrative and legal means of protecting relations in the field of banking operations.


Lex Russica ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 18-29
Author(s):  
G. K. Dmitrieva ◽  
O. V. Lutkova

The article has investigated the mechanisms of the national (both legal and non-legal) regulation of orphan works, i.e. works the holder (holders) of rights to which is (are) not identified and/or the location of the rights-holder is not established. Orphan works are supposedly protected by copyright, which means the validity of exclusive rights and the potential need to obtain permission from the copyright holder for any form of using the works under consideration, namely: reproduction including digitization, translation, processing, etc. However, in a situation where the right holder is not determined (is unavailable), the user does not have an objective opportunity to obtain such a permission, and the work actually remains unknown to the society, although it can be of artistic, cultural or historical value. Since the beginning of the new millennium, the national legal systems of a number of States have establish a special regime for the legal protection of orphan works, and about 20 states of the world have developed the foundations of such a regime so far. The article analyzes the regulation of orphan works in several states — in the EU and its member states, Great Britain, the USA, Canada, Korea, Japan, India. The authors have determined the foundations of the substantive and conflict of laws regulation of cross-border relations regulating orphan works. Features of regulation of works with an unidentified author in the era of a network society are highlighted: in particular, the need to digitize orphan works, since many of them are in a single copy on the medium ruined by time, and the fact that the digitized work can instantly spread from databases to other jurisdictions. The authors provide for the forecast of possible ways of evolution of legal regulation of relations in question with the use of mechanisms of national and international law.


2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-77
Author(s):  
Dmitriy V. Galushko

The importance of the category of integration in the modern system of international relations can hardly be overestimated. The science of international law is no exception, and its development has recently been largely conditioned by the ongoing integration processes between states, the main subjects of international law. The very international legal doctrine has developed many approaches to the characteristics of its essential characteristics, including integration. Despite the objective nature of integration, its development in the context recent disintegration events that have taken place in the international arena and given rise to crisis phenomena (the first of which is, of course, the process of Britains withdrawal from the European Union), predetermine the relevance as well as the theoretical and practical significance of this article. The methodological basis of the work includes well-known general and specific methods of scientific research. The purpose and objectives of the article are to study the relevant problems and the essence of integration and disintegration processes in the international arena, characterize the main doctrinal approaches to them, and identify general trends as well as the essential characteristics and main features of these phenomena.


Lex Russica ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 84-95
Author(s):  
N. A. Sokolova

The paper is devoted to international legal protection of the environment during armed conflicts. The author emphasizes that armed conflicts, both international and non-international, continue to be one of the most serious threats to a healthy environment. An armed conflict taking place in the environment invariably poses a threat to ecosystems.The author summarizes that in international law there are special norms for the protection of natural environment during armed conflicts. At the same time, increasing the level of protection requires a clearer definition of the scope of application of customary law and the further development of treaty rules. While the objectives of protecting the natural environment are linked to the survival and protection of civilians, recognition of environmental protection during armed conflict as such constitutes an important trend. International law calls on States to enter into agreements that provide for additional protection of the natural environment during armed conflicts. The concept of “protecting the natural environment” in international humanitarian law refers to a wide range of obligations that can help protect the natural environment or its parts from damage. A high threshold for potential harm continues to pose the risk that such protection is not fully applicable in practice. There is an obvious tendency to use the potential of the principles of international environmental law when applying the norms of international humanitarian law. Thus, even in cases where the assessment of new means and methods of warfare does not provide scientific certainty with regard to their impact on the natural environment, this does not absolve the parties to the conflict from taking appropriate precautions. It is not enough that there are important rules of international humanitarian law protecting the natural environment during armed conflict; they need to be better disseminated, implemented and enforced, as well as validated and clarified.


2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 671-690
Author(s):  
Ksenia Michailovna Belikova

This article aims to examine India’s approaches to handling the items of ethics and legal regulation (framework) of the development and application and the use of artificial intelligence in the military sphere in the context of national acts, capabilities and needs of India. It was revealed that the country’s lag behind its neighbors (China, Pakistan) and recognized leaders in this area (USA, Israel) is a motive for formulating the concept of ensuring India’s military superiority based on AI as a force multiplier. It was revealed that the identified problems require a prompt solution based on the concerted joint efforts of the relevant interested parties with the leading role of the government. The theoretical and practical significance of the results obtained is determined by the fact that the readers will be provided with current scientific information about India’s approaches to the designated areas from the standpoint of law and ethics.


Author(s):  
Vadim Avdeevich Avdeev ◽  
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Olga Anatolievna Avdeeva ◽  
Vera Vladimirovna Smirnova ◽  
Ilya Mihajlovich Rassolov ◽  
...  

The article reveals the problems of information security in modern conditions with the globalization of international life, changing polycentric relations, taking into account the high rates of development in technical and information resources. The special importance of ensuring information security as an object of legal protection protected by international and national law is noted. The issues of eliminating conflicts in the norms of international law, preventing the possibility of their spreading to the territory of individual sovereign states, are being addressed. The correlation between the norms of international and national law emphasizes the expediency of improvement and adoption of new normative legal acts of universal and regional significance which can be used by member states when innovating national criminal and other sectoral legislation. It is a priority to improve international and national legal policy for the modernization of national legal systems for the prevention and combating of cybercrime. An effective mechanism of legal regulation for the objects to be legally protected is of fundamental importance for ensuring information security. Particular attention is focused on solving the issues of detection, disclosure and accurate legal evaluation of crimes and offences committed in cyberspace. The importance of the international community to establish universal standards to ensure information security is emphasized


2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 455
Author(s):  
Victor Beschastnyi

The tasks of developing international cooperation in the agrarian sphere between Ukraine and the international community, including the European Union, were determined. The existing reasons for the development of small and medium business representatives are analyzed. The updated structure of the object and the subject side - components of agrarian management is determined. The tendency of international development of organic farming is taken into account. The description and practical significance of the appropriateness of securing the terminological understanding of "raider", "peaceful possession of property" with the aim of unification of the norms of the national legislation with the international ones, including the European one, is given. The state-legal regulation on the way of preventing the offense from the standpoint of functioning of state bodies is considered. Due to the comparative method of scientific study, proposals for changes to the current normative and legal framework of Ukraine are determined. There is a distinction and the need to ensure legal protection and protection of the most vulnerable category of subjects. Today, it is the owners of land plots, including owners of land plots (shares), which have been given a land plot for private peasant farming, horticulture, gardening, subsidiary farming. In particular, such protection should be based on positions of economic, social, legal and moral orientation, which defines an integrated and systematic approach. The state authorities should, through their functional duties and through the authority to provide assistance to such economic entities.           Keywords: raiding, peaceful possession of property, agrarian sphere, organic farming, state-legal and state-private mechanism, international agrarian cooperation, agrarian raiding, "weapons" institute


Author(s):  
Guzal Gazinurovna Galiakbarova

  This article discusses some issues of labor regulation of medical and pharmaceutical workers, the peculiarities of health systems in some countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a comparative analysis of their experience and Kazakhstan is carried out. The specificity of the legal status of medical and pharmaceutical workers is also considered, which is explained by the fact that its regulation is based not only on general norms of labor law, but also on special regulations affecting various features of the activities of this category of workers. At the same time, it is noted that the basis of the legislative regulation of the work of medical and pharmaceutical workers is the generally recognized principles and norms of international law, as well as the norms of national legislation.  The article focuses on the fact that among the variety of sources concerning the legal status of various categories of workers, there is no separate comprehensive study devoted to the peculiarities of legal regulation of both medical and pharmaceutical workers, in connection with which the chosen topic of scientific research is updated.


Author(s):  
Serhii Viktorovich Maidanik

At the level of international legal regulation disability policy is currently one of the priority areas. However, such attention to the international legal protection of the rights of persons with disabilities has not always been the case, as the problems of persons with disabilities have long remained unnoticed by the international community. Rare attempts to improve the situation with persons with disabilities were usually limited to medical protection and integration into the labor market, while the task of their full and actual involvement in public life was not even set. The article analyzes the preconditions, reasons and features of the evolution of the system of international legal protection of the rights of persons with disabilities, as well as examines the transformation of approaches to defining the concept of "disability" at the level of international law. The article defines the main stages of the formation of international cooperation in the field of protection of the rights of persons with disabilities. The article presents the results of the analysis of international legal documents on disability policy for the period from the beginning of the twentieth century to 2020.


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