CONCEPT AND ESSENCE OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITY FOR VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS TO OBJECTS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
In the modern world of information technologies protection of the intellectual rights is one of the prior- ity directions of development in many countries, including in Russia. The existing domestic legislation along with civil and criminal legal protection of the rights to results of intellectual activities provides the administrative mecha- nism of their protection which part is the administrative responsibility. As method of protection of the rights to ob- jects of intellectual property this article is devoted to research of the administrative responsibility.In work determinations of the concepts «administrative offence» and «administrative responsibility» in relation to the sphere of protection of the intellectual rights are offered; peculiar features of the administrative responsibility for violation of the rights to results of intellectual activities are allocated; types of administrative punishments for violation of the intellectual rights are designated. The author has also lit a number of problematic issues of administrative legal protection of the rights to objects of intellectual property, methods of their solution are proposed.