Current issues of criminal law protection of innovation activity in Russia

Abstract

The article analyses the concepts and essence of the terms innovation activity, innovation, innovative project. On the basis of the analysis, the author develops his own definition to reveal the essence of the innovation activity. The paper examines constituent parts of crimes available under domestic criminal legislation that protect the results of innovative activity. In particular, Art. 147 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation enumerates acts that infringe inventive and patent rights. In addition, the author attempts to predict the impact of the innovation process on criminal law and to formulate rules of criminalization of acts associated with attacks on the results of innovative activities that may emerge in the future. On the basis of the survey, the author gives a presumption that can be useful to formulate rules regulating responsibility for attacks on the results of innovation activities in the future.