The Digital Infrastructure of the National Patent System: Structural and Functional Design

This article presents the experience of the structural and functional design of the digital infrastructure of the national patent office. Based on the basis of methodological communication of the sciences of information, economics, and management cycles, the concept of the digital infrastructure is clarified. The structural and functional model of the digital infrastructure of the national patent office is presented and substantiated, including the specification of subjects, conceptual schemes of processes, the architecture of a unified information environment, the conceptual schemes of the processes of harmonization of information systems and services at the macro level and corporate information systems, the conceptual schemes of the functioning of legacy systems, and a system of models that reveal functional, organizational, and other structural relationships. The necessity of new theoretical and methodological approaches to the study and design of digital development in the field of intellectual property is proven.