The category of exclusive rights in Russian legislation: historical genesis

The article briefly illustrates the stages of formation and development of legislation and doctrinal ideas about intellectual property law and, in particular, about exclusive rights. A brief digression into the history of the emergence and development of exclusive rights to the results of intellectual activity and the means of individualization equated to them allowed the author to draw certain conclusions that should be taken into account when new objects of civil rights appear. First of all, we are talking about the so-called virtual objects (virtual property). The law somehow coped with their appearance through existing legal institutions and tools used, sometimes using analogy, and in some cases "squeezing" new objects into already established concepts and institutions. However, the experience of the formation and development of intellectual property norms in Russian law has clearly shown an absolutely normal desire to apply the old to everything new. Therefore, it is not surprising that scientists are trying to extend the property law regime or intellectual property law to such objects.