The article by patent attorney and advocate Aleksey Zalesov was published in the December issue of the scientific and practical magazine «Intellectual Property. Industrial Property» No. 12/ 2021.
The author of the article «Patent rights as monopolistic industrial rights of a patent owner-investor» (in Russian) explains the origin of the essential differences between copyright and patent law, analyzes the nature of the shortcomings of the modern practical work of the patent system and also gives his definition of a patent for invention.