The directions of development of legal regulation of patenting the methods of treatment in Ukraine considering the European and world experience.

INTRODUCTION

the current state of patenting legal regulation of medical treatment in Ukraine and in the world is analyzed, the directions for the further development are determined. The author defines "non-industrial medical" and socio-ethical theories in the field of medical treatment patent protection. The existence of exclusively formal "monopoly" of the patent owner is noted, as well as the inapplicability of the majority of the patented achievements in this field in Ukraine.

AIM

the purpose of this article is to investigate the current state of patenting legal regulation of medical treatment in Ukraine and in the world, to analyze the limitation of patent protection basic conception in the medical field and to determine the tendencies and perspectives of the legal protection mechanism of further development in this field in Ukraine, considering the European and world regulation experience.

MATERIAL AND METHODS

this study is based on Ukrainian regulation acts, The European Patent Convention, The Code of Laws of the United States of America, judgments, scientific works and opinions of progressive-minded people in this sphere. Such methods as dialectical, comparative, analytic, synthetic and comprehensive are used in the article.

CONCLUSION

The experience analysis of the medical treatment patenting regulation in EU and in other countries of the word made it possible to substantiate the tendencies of development the patenting legal regulation of treatment methods mechanism, based on the needs of creation conditions for the availability of the recent treatment developments and technics for citizens, without increasing the cost of such treatment through license fees.