The Protection of Industrial Innovation in Digital Age

The transition to Industry 4.0 and 5.0 in production and business is followed both by an increase in opportunities and a number of new problems, including legal regulation of new phenomena and relationship. The paper contains the analysis of problems and contradictions in legal regulation arisen under the influence of digitalization and networking of production processes. The study considers various ways of the influence of digitalization on the organization and the innovation processes in corporations. The legal aspects of such activities cover the norms of Corporate law, Civil law (in the field of intellectual property protection), information and data protection. Current legislation in the field of intellectual property rights protection does not correspond to the requirements of the digital age and needs some improvement. Having used the methods of Civil law, regulatory and comparative analysis, it is concluded that such a new object of legal regulation as “Digital Twins” needs special means of protection. In these conditions, information technology security becomes a key aspect of the corporate legal security system.