Classification of Terms in Patent Law

Abstract

The paper attempts to explore the complex of patent legal terms as a separate group of terms in civil law through the prism of the elements that make up this set. The classification was carried out in two stages. At the first stage, taking into account the approaches developed in the science of civil law, seven bases of division and the features of their application to patent legal terms are considered. At the second stage, five additional grounds for dividing patent legal terms into groups are proposed. The analysis of the elements identified as a result of the classification made it possible to formulate conclusions about the features of urgent regulation of patent-legal relations: a high degree of certainty and at the same time flexibility of temporary regulation; about the absence of certain deadlines and the presence of specific groups of deadlines in connection with the peculiarities of the subject of regulation of patent law and the focus of patent legislation on the creation of favorable conditions for scientific, scientific-technical and other types of creative activities.