Doroshenko O. Legal Expertise as a Means of Proof in Civil Proceedings Regarding Intellectual Property Rights Infringement

A dissertation for the Candidate degree of Juridical Science in the speciality 12.00.03 - Civil Law and Civil Procedure; Family Law; Private International Law. - Research Institute of Private Law and Business of the Ukrainian Academy of Law Sciences, Kyiv, 2007. The dissertation is a complex research on the theoretical and practical problematic issues related to the legal expert activity concerning the examination of intellectual property objects and to the determination of place and significance of an expert conclusion as a means of proof in civil proceedings regarding intellectual property rights infringement. In the dissertation, a notion of expertise as a means of proof in cases on the intellectual property rights infringement has been defined; the legal grounds for the expertise to be ordered in civil proceedings regarding infringement of intellectual property rights have been analysed; the expert's procedural rights and obligations, the principles of legal expert activity, a form and a content ofan expert's conclusion and particular features of inquiry and evaluation thereof by courts in cases of the intellectual property rights infringement have been determined. Key words: intellectual property, legal expert activity, legal expertise of intellectual property objects, civil procedure, means of proof in civil procedure.