The essence and problems of determining ways to protect intellectual property rights

The article analyzes the legal ways of protecting intellectual property rights and determines the quality and accuracy of the legislative description. Due to lack of legal definition, the author reveals the main approaches to the scientific interpretation of ways to protect civil rights and their essence. Great attention is paid to the correlation between the concepts of “protection form” and “protection method”, the identification of deficiencies in legal rules concerning the legal nature and the content of the self-defense of the law, the expression of the author’s opinion on the issue. Based on the viewpoints of civilian scientists and the systematic interpretation of the law, the research differentiates the ways of protecting civil rights and defines the characteristics of responsibilities. Analysis of the legal regulation in the field of intellectual property protection showed an imperfection of legal rules that may lead to the problems of their application in practice.