In the new issue of «Patents and Licenses» magazine No. 5/2023, the article of the Managing Partner of «A.Zalesov & Partners» Patent & Law Firm Aleksey Zalesov - «The ratio of public law and private law methods of regulating relations regarding a protected invention» - was published (in Russian).
The crucial difference between public (including administrative) law and civil law lies in the method of regulating the relations of participants. The difference in methods of regulation makes it fundamentally impossible to have the same approach to resolving disputes. The author of the article argues that approaches, for example, in patent validity disputes and patent infringement disputes should be different. Therefore, it is extremely important to clearly understand what is an administrative norm in patent law, and what is a civil law norm.