FORENSIC EXAMINATION ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AS AN INSTITUTE OF PROTECTION OF CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE IN UKRAINE: GENESIS, CONCEPT AND SYSTEM

INTRODUCTION The development of modern states implies the effective protection of their rights to intellectual property 1 . After all, these objects today are no less important indicator of the country’s economic, social, cultural and spiritual potential than its financial resources or minerals. It is not in vain that the key to the development and prosperity of the intellectually inherent economies of most of the member states of the European Union, the USA, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, and others became the most developed systems of administrative and judicial protection of the right to objects of intellectual property rights in the 21st century. For Ukraine, the problem of developing and improving an effective system of protection of rights to intellectual property objects is, on the one hand, the issue of preserving and increasing the domestic intellectual capital, a kind of ‘intellectual matrix’ of Ukraine’s critical infrastructure, and on the other hand a narrative for European integration through the implementation of the provisions of the Agreement on the association of Ukraine with the EU and other international obligations of our state in the field of protection of intellectual property. It should be noted that despite the known shortcomings in the field of law-making and enforcement practice in protecting the rights to intellectual property objects in Ukraine, Ukraine’s successes in this area are also prominent and promising. In particular, in the years 2002-2019, the forensic examination on intellectual property has been established and developed. It is not analogous in most countries of the world. In 2019, the Supreme Court on Intellectual Property will begin its work; a number of initiatives supported by the public have been introduced to the Parliament, which should improve the