Objective: Introduction: There is a large number of patents registered in the field of medical practice in Ukraine. Despite this, the peculiarities of the legal protection of inventions within medical practice have not been researched in the modern legal doctrine of intellectual property. The aim of this article is theoretical and practical study of the legal protection of medical inventions in Ukraine based on the analysis of Ukrainian patent law, issued patents for inventions applied within medical practice, as well as data from the State Expert Center of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine.
Patients and methods: Materials and methods: The authors of the article have used methods of analysis and synthesis, as well as comparative and legal method. The analysis and further use of data from the State Expert Center of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine contributed to the definition of the problems of this publication, as well as the formulation of the authors' vision of the features of inventions within medical practice.
Results: Review: Inventions within medical practice are the result of human intellectual activity in the field of medicine. The authors have offered to refer inventions within medical practice to a group of inventions with a possible risk. The risks of inventions within medical practice are divided into those that have a risk for people undergoing clinical trials and manufacturers who try to use these inventions.
Conclusion: Conclusions: The authors have grounded the expediency of supplementing the patent procedure with regard to inventions that can be applied within medical practice, with the rule of obligatory provision of documents on conducting clinical trials to the materials of the application for a patent on the invention, in cases of restrictions of the rights of a patent holder of medical and pharmaceutical inventions, by the provisions that would define the concepts and types of biotechnological inventions.
Keywords: a patent and an invention; clinical trials; inventions within medical practice; legal protection of inventions; risks of inventions.