The main goal of the department is to support the implementation of state policy in the field of intellectual property, innovation work, and patent information within the university system. 

The main directions of the department's activities are as follows:

- Organizing and ensuring modern management methods in the field of intellectual property.

- Providing scientific and methodological guidance and participating in patent research during the planning and execution of scientific research and development projects aimed at enhancing the technical level, ensuring patentability, and competitiveness in the external market.

- Identifying potential discoveries and inventions (useful models) in scientific research.

- Assisting authors in the preparation of patent applications for inventions (useful models) and protecting their rights.

- Ensuring the protection and lawful use of intellectual property objects that meet the needs of the domestic and global market.

- Taking measures to prevent premature disclosure of the essence of scientific and technical achievements of the university, which may be recognized as discoveries or inventions (useful models).

The main functions of the department's activities are as follows:

- Conducting patent searches during the preparation of dissertations, coursework, diploma papers, and projects.

- Providing methodological assistance in formulating the invention's formula, description, and other necessary documents for the application.

- Formatting prepared materials for patent applications for inventions, useful models, and industrial designs in accordance with the laws of Ukraine on the protection of rights to inventions and useful models and the rules for drafting and filing applications.

- Submitting application materials for inventions, useful models, and industrial designs to the State Enterprise "Ukrainian National Intellectual Property Office" for formal and substantive examination and conducting correspondence related to them.

- Assisting authors in preparing responses to requests from the formal and substantive examination conducted on patent applications for inventions, useful models, and industrial designs.

- Organizing and monitoring the payment of necessary fees related to the protection of intellectual property rights.

- Participating, along with the faculty's expert commissions, in the examination of materials prepared for publication to prevent premature disclosure of information on technical solutions for which protective documents may be issued.

- Ensuring the accounting of protective documents and reporting on the results of patent and licensing activities, analyzing them, providing legal support for obtained protective documents for prospective technical solutions and developments.

- Drafting and concluding licenses and other agreements provided by legislation for the transfer of the right to use intellectual property objects (patents for inventions, useful models, industrial designs, etc.) on behalf of the University.

- Preparing and submitting reporting documentation on the results of research and development activities, information on scientific and scientific-technical activities of the university for the reporting period, ensuring scientific expertise of research results, and presenting them in the unified information system "Science in Universities."