This paper will deal with infringing intellectual property rights as a disciplinary offense made by a public employee and will answer specific questions like: When is a public servant disciplinary responsible for violating IPRs? What is the legal basis on which the employee is disciplinarily asked upon? What are the similarities and differences between disciplinary responsibility and criminal and civil responsibility of violating IP rights? What is the authority responsible for investigating the employee? What is the procedural organization of the investigation before the administrative prosecution into the employee's violation of intellectual property rights? What is the legal action, if the violated IPR is owned by the state or owned by others? What are the forms of IPR infringement made by public employees? And finally what are the recommendations to raise the public employees' awareness of the risks of violating intellectual property rights and what are the means to avoid the violation?