Inheritance of intellectual property rights

The article deals with inheritance of intellectual property rights in the Russian civil law. The author highlights the problem of inheritance of certain categories of intellectual property rights: the exclusive right, moral rights and other intellectual property rights. Features of definition of "exclusive rights" in modern civil law are considered. Then the author differentiates between inherited and non-inherited intellectual property rights. Within the article the problem of inclusion of obligatory rights of the authors-testators in heritage is analyzed.