Keyword: «privilege»

The emergence of the institution of patent law was the result of the development and improvement of technological progress in different states. The article describes the origins of the development of patent law in foreign countries, as well as its consideration as the main institution for the protection of intellectual property. The study also presents examples of the emergence of many inventions and methods for obtaining exclusive rights.

The article is devoted to the review of existing approaches in the doctrine to the definition of the notion of priority. It is noted that several concepts have now been developed explaining the legal nature of the legal phenomenon in question as follows: privilege; limited proprietary law; law of obligations; second law; a mixed concept in which priority is defined as a proprietary (absolute) or obligatory (relative) right, depending on the accompanying legal conditions.