An article «Priorities of legal protection of the rights and interests of IT companies in arbitration courts» authored by Senior partner of «A.Zalesov & Partners» Patent & Law Firm Aleksey Zalesov has been published (in Russian).
The main resource of IT companies is their employees and the product is digital developments, which are intangible goods. In this regard, for IT companies, issues of ownership and other property rights and their protection are less important than issues of protection of intellectual property rights. In addition to the peculiarities of judicial protection of rights and interests in the field of the information sector, the applicable law chosen by the participants, it is important to obtain and protect rights in relation to the digital product itself, in particular, patenting IT solutions is the main method of ensuring exclusivity.