This article analyzes legislation and scientific works in order to define an approach to understanding the concept of "scientific and scientific-technical result" as a category of objects of civil rights. The features of the legal regulation of the turnover of these facilities are considered. The author comes to the conclusion that there is currently no single civil law regime for scientific and scientific-technical results, and suggests an approach to determining their characteristics, marketability, as well as a list of types of objects of civil rights that can be attributed to this concept and to the objective form of their expression.