Czech Republic

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F26482789%3A_____%2F18%3AN0000018" target="_blank" >RIV/26482789:_____/18:N0000018 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71419-6" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71419-6</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71419-6" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-319-71419-6</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Czech Republic

Original language description

The intellectual property law that is valid and applicable in the territory of the Czech Republic has sources from three legal systems – international, EU and national. Therefore, the holder of intellectual property rights enjoying protection in the Czech Republic disposes with a set of claims and instruments defending his brands on the Czech market, regardless whether the context is of on-line and/or off-line distribution and/or after-sales service. These rights, as well as claims and instruments defending them, are rather standard and harmonized with the intellectual property law and intellectual property law features prevailing in the EU. Nevertheless, the questions of a fair balance and its striking between such holders of intellectual property rights and consumers are nationally particular and so, even in the case of the Czech Republic, national special priorities and rules can be identified. Indeed, ultimately, the intellectual property rights protecting brands are predominantly provided, determinated and regulated by the Czech national law, i.e. either by the Czech general regulation or by the Czech special regulation. The Czech general regulation, with respect to, among others, intellectual property issues, branding and consumer protection, is included in Act No. 89/2012 Coll., Civil Code (“Civil Code”), which serves as the lex generalis for basically the entire sphere of the Private law. The Czech special regulation, with respect to, among others, intellectual property issues, branding and consumer protection, is included in a set of intellectual property Acts, i.e. leges speciales, such as Act No. 441/2003 Coll., on Trademark (“Trademark Act”), Act No. 527/1990 Coll., on inventions and rationalization proposals (“Patent Act”) and Act No. 121/2000 Coll., Copyright Act (“Copyright Act”). Since brands are often the foundation-stone for trademarks and can be an copyrightable outcome, their substantive setting and protection are predominantly provided by the Trademark Act and possibly as well by the Copyright Act. Their enforcement is included in Act No. 99/1963 Coll., Civil Procedure Order (“Civil Procedure Order”) and in Act No. 221/2006 Coll., on enforcing industrial property rights (“Industrial Property Enforcement Act”), which implements the well known Directive 2004/48/EC of the European Union.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50501 - Law

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA17-11867S" target="_blank" >GA17-11867S: Comparison of the interaction between the law against unfair competition and intellectual property law, and its consequences in the central European c</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Antitrust Analysis of Online Sales Platforms & Copyright Limitations and Exceptions

ISBN

978-3-319-71418-9

Number of pages of the result

16

Pages from-to

391-406

Number of pages of the book

602

Publisher name

Springer

Place of publication

Netherlands

UT code for WoS chapter

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