The article examines civil-law problems in the use of rights to results of intellectual activity in the interaction of organizations of different bodies of the security and law-enforcement bloc during scientific research. The distribution of powers of disposal among several bodies, while the right holder remains a single subject, reproduces the general mechanism of Article 125 of the Civil Code but lacks the means of redistributing competence available in relations concerning tangible property. The defects thus arising are identified and ways of eliminating them proposed.