Legal protection and commercialization of innovations as employee subject matters of intellectual property

The article reviews different aspects related to intellectual property (IP) management including those at a high technology enterprise. The author focuses on encouragement of innovative activities at the enterprise. The article considers the essence of IP commercialization and analyzes practical benefits. The concept of an employee subject matter of intellectual property is discussed, and the importance of legal regulation of employer-employee relations is emphasized. The author gives examples of functioning of the local regulatory system, which specifies commercialization activities of employee subject matters of IP at OJSC «ORPE «Technologiya».