The article analyzes the possibilities of maintaining the register of intellectual property objects using blockchain technologies. Such registries have a number of advantages in comparison with traditional methods of registration and provide more opportunities for rightholders. However, they also have certain disadvantages, primarily due to the lack of full-fledged mechanisms for resolving intellectual property disputes. This problem requires not only technical, but also organizational and legal solutions. The authors conclude that the prospects for the development of blockchain platforms for registering and managing intellectual property are linked to the possibility of dividing such registries into two types. The first one is the registries of IP objects on the permissionless blockchain platform. Information about IP objects and their authors (owners) contained in them will not be official. The second type is the registries of IP objects on the basis of permission blockchain technologies, in which superuser rights will be granted to government bodies authorized in the field of IP protection. Entries in them will be official and will have validating rights value.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationDigital Transformation and Global Society - 4th International Conference, DTGS 2019, Revised Selected Papers
EditorsDaniel A. Alexandrov, Yury Kabanov, Olessia Koltsova, Ilya Musabirov, Alexander V. Boukhanovsky, Andrei V. Chugunov
PublisherSpringer Nature
Pages327-337
Number of pages11
ISBN (Print)9783030378578
DOIs
StatePublished - 2019
Event4th International Conference on Digital Transformation and Global Society, DTGS 2019 - ИТМО, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
Duration: 19 Jun 201921 Jun 2019
Conference number: 4
http://dtgs-conference.org

Publication series

NameCommunications in Computer and Information Science
Volume1038 CCIS
ISSN (Print)1865-0929
ISSN (Electronic)1865-0937

Conference

Conference4th International Conference on Digital Transformation and Global Society, DTGS 2019
Abbreviated titleDTGS 2019
Country/TerritoryRussian Federation
CitySt. Petersburg
Period19/06/1921/06/19
Internet address

    Research areas

  • Blockchain technologies, Information systems, Intellectual property, Permission blockchains, Registries, Smart contracts, State registration

    Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Science(all)
  • Mathematics(all)

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