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European law against unfair competition
Kaštánková, Jitka ; Patěk, Daniel (advisor) ; Čech, Petr (referee)
European Law Against Unfair Competition Abstract The diploma thesis deals with the "European law against unfair competition" and the emphasis is placed on providing understandable and comprehensive summary of European law represented by two leading directives of the European Union. The first one is called Unfair Commercial Practices Directive and it focuses on relations between businesses and customers, while the second one, called Misleading and Comparative Advertising Directive, concentrates on business to business relations. Moreover, the realm of unfair competition is richly complemented by the jurisprudence of the Court of Justice of the European Union, which dedicates many of its rulings to this problematic due to its indispensable significance. The content of diploma thesis is divided into several chapters. The chapter following the Introduction gives brief definitions of the terms typical for this branch of law, for example competition or average consumer. The third chapter takes into account historical development of unfair competition at European union level and its direct impact to Czech legislation. For this reason, the fourth chapter includes a short discourse about unfair competition from the point of view of the latest Czech Civil Code. Questions relating to consumers and protection of their...
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European law against unfair competition
Hobzová, Anna ; Patěk, Daniel (advisor) ; Eichlerová, Kateřina (referee)
European law against unfair competition This diploma thesis deals with the regulation of European law against unfair competition in the Directive on unfair commercial practices as well as in the Directive concerning misleading and comparative advertising. The aim of this thesis is to provide a comprehensive explanation of the areas of the law against unfair competition regulated by these directives with regard to relevant jurisprudence of the Court of Justice of the European Union, another objective is to evaluate the success of transposition of this regulation into czech national law. After the introductary part, the thesis is diveded into six chapters. The first chapter briefly defines the status of the law against unfair competition in the legal system, interprets the basic terms and describes the role of the Court of Justice of the European Union. The second chapter is dedicated to the evolution of the law against unfair competition at the level of European Union. The third chapter is dedicated to misleading advertising and its regulation by the Directive concerning misleading and comparative advertising, the fourth chapter is dedicated to comparative advertising regulated by the same directive. The fifth chapter deals with unfair commercial practices in business to consumer relations regulated...
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Regulation of advertisements in pharmaceutical industry
Metelka, Jan ; Patěk, Daniel (advisor) ; Rozehnal, Aleš (referee)
Abstract, Jan Metelka The main aim of this diploma thesis was to firstly explain the field of human pharmaceuticals and regulation of advertisement regarding them, from the general point of view and then in details. In order to achieve this it was required to define advertisement and pharmaceuticals because these terms and crucial for the whole thesis. Both definitions may be off the scope of this text however it plays an important role in understanding all necessary issues. Advertisements in pharmaceutical industry have some specifics as described in chapter 2. There are two kinds of recipients - experts (doctors and pharmacists) and ordinary people (mostly patients). Every kind is special and regulated in a different way. Third chapter described all steps in administrative proceedings related to Act on Advertisement, forming a public branch of law against unfair competition. It summarises and divides all misdemeanours, statistically describes how often they occur and deeply analyses possible breaches of Act on Advertisement. The main part of this thesis is Chapter seven, dealing with unfair competition in private law, as mentioned in early chapters, however here it is specifically described how to apply the general clause and the more important kinds of unfair competition such as deceptive adverts and...
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European Law Against Unfair Competition
Najman, Ondřej ; Patěk, Daniel (advisor) ; Pelikán, Robert (referee)
European Law Against Unfair Competition Abstract The scope of this thesis is intended to cover mainly two branches of the European law against unfair competition. Those two branches were recognized in (i) business-to- business relations governed mostly by the European Union Directive 2006/114/ES and in (ii) business-to-consumer relations governed by the European Union directive 2005/29/ES respectively. Taking in consideration the above-said, it can be stated that this thesis predominantly analyzes what should be in more precise way called as "European Union law against unfair competition". The thesis is divided into ten chapters while five of them should be considered as the leading ones. First of them is the chapter number five dedicated to B2B relations. The author examines the respective directive 2006/114/ES also to the extent of its relevant jurisprudence of the European Court of Justice. The same approach was chosen to describe functioning of B2C relations under directive 2005/29/ES in chapter number seven. Chapter number six focuses on so called "Average Consumer" model that has been found as one of the most important elements of EU law against unfair competition. Because of its exceptional relevance, chapter six deals with the average consumer in a very detail, emphasizing important role of the...
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Regulations of advertising within a legal and ethical framework focusing on unfair competition in the Czech Republic
Vojtovič, Jakub ; Winter, Filip (advisor) ; Hejlová, Denisa (referee)
The aim of this bachelor thesis is to present the legal and ethical framework of regulations of advertising, while pointing out the latest changes in this area. The legislation of unfair competition, especially false advertising and comparative advertising which went through some changes due to the new Czech Civil Code is more closely described. In the theoretical part of this thesis first the evolution of advertising in general is described, then it briefly enlightens on the development of regulations of advertising in the Czech Republic. Afterwards the thesis is divided into three main parts which describe ethical self-regulation, legal regulation and unfair competition. The practical part of the work contains examples regarding false and comparative advertising from the last few years. Lastly the content of this thesis is summarized and the author's opinion on the regulation of advertising is offered
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Comparative advertising - the development of legal regulation in the Czech legal order
Kotva, Martin ; Horáček, Vít (advisor) ; Patěk, Daniel (referee)
This thesis is dedicated to analyzing the Czech legal regulation of competitive advertising since the year 1927, while the main focus point of the thesis lies within the analysis of European directives and Commercial code. The beginning of the thesis is dealing with the definition of several crucial terms needed for due orientation in the issue (particularly the terms "economic competition", "competitor", "general clause", "average consumer", "advertisement", "comparative advertising"). After that follows the analysis of the regulation of comparative advertising applicable in specific time periods. In the first analyzed period (1927-1950), comparative advertising was not explicitly regulated. Nonetheless it was being judged according to the general clause and special facts of the case included in the act. No 111/1927 Coll. of laws and decrees. The attitude of the legal practice towards comparative advertising was rather restrained at that time. During the next analyzed time period (1950-1991), economic competition and the regulation of unfair competition was substantially marginalized due to wide social changes. The time period 1992-2001 was, from the unfair competition regulation point of view, important, because it has seen an implementation of a relatively detailed legal regulation of the...
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Prohibited comparative advertising
Křenková, Michaela ; Patěk, Daniel (advisor) ; Eichlerová, Kateřina (referee)
Prohibited comparative advertising The Diploma thesis, Prohibited comparative advertising, deals with prohibited comparative advertising according to Czech legislation and legislation of the European Union. The aim of the thesis is primarily to deal with what makes comparative advertising unlawful. The diploma thesis is divided into four chapters: terminology, development of the legislation in the Czech Republic, comparative advertising legislation in the Czech Republic and the EU legislation, and self regulation of advertising. The attitude of the society to advertising as such has been developing as well as the attitude of the society to the comparative advertising. The legal regulation of unfair competition in the Czech Republic has its origins in the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. After the First World War, the newly created state of the Czechoslovak Republic, became a member state of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property. Thus, it bound itself to ensure appropriate legal remedies for nationals of other countries in the Union to suppress unfair competition. Based on this commitment, the Act on Protection Against Unfair Competition, which is the inspiration for the currently valid legislation on unfair competition, was adopted. The legal regulation of comparative advertising...
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Comparative advertisement - the development of regulation in the Czech legal order
Soukupová, Radka ; Horáček, Vít (advisor) ; Patěk, Daniel (referee)
COMPARATIVE ADVERTISEMENT - THE DEVELOPMENT OF REGULATION IN THE CZECH LEGAL ORDER My thesis is aimed particularly to analyse the existing legal regulations on the comparative advertising in the Czech Republic with a view to its comprehensive treatment in the Community law and to summarize the history of the Czech laws not only of the comparative advertising evolution, but also an unfair competition or an unfair advertising in general, as the legislation governing the comparative advertising did not exist until 2001 and particularly the comparative advertising was usually qualified as an unfair competition. The work is divided into seven chapters. First two chapters briefly depict general characteristics of both the economic competition and an unfair competition terms and concepts. The third chapter is devoted to advertising in general. Chapters Four and Five form the core of the thesis. They are dedicated to the phenomenon of the comparative advertising and legislation prevailing in the Czech Republic. In Chapter Four, varying attitudes of different rules of law to comparative advertising are discussed in Section 4.1, and Section 4.2 summarizes the different types of comparative advertising. Section 4.3 is dedicated to the evolution of the legislation on unfair competition or an unfair...
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Comparative advertisement - the development of regulation in the Czech legal order
Dufková, Marie ; Horáček, Vít (advisor) ; Patěk, Daniel (referee)
The Comparative Advertising - development of regulation in the Czech legal order Resumé My thesis analyzes the legal regulation of the comparative advertising in the Czech Republic. It deals not only with the current legislation, but it looks at the historical development and future perspectives too. The goal of my thesis is to provide a thorough guide to the development of its legal regulation within the particular eras of the Czech history, describe different approaches of legislators, judges and professionals, and eventually, I try to evaluate the current situation and draw conclusions. At the very beginning after my introduction I put a short chapter containing a few words about the term "comparative advertising" itself and about the different types of comparative advertising. Then, in the following chapter I chronologically address the issues of legal legislation in the history of the Czech Republic: the first part is dedicated to the time period of so called "First Republic" and its Law on protection against unfair competition and its vast judicature. The second part is concerned with the socialist era in our history, the complete rejection of the economic competition as such and the logical decline in the interest in the unfair competition legislation. The last two parts of this chapter mention the...
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Community law against unfair competition
Nathanielová, Nicole ; Patěk, Daniel (advisor) ; Černá, Stanislava (referee)
Resumé Community Law Against Unfair Competition The purpose of my thesis is to analyze the European legislation on unfair competition, its application by Court of Justice of the European Union (hereinafter referred to as "CJ EU") and its implementation into Czech law. The thesis is composed of six chapters. Chapter One is dedicated to the general explanation and description of the unfair competition and its subjects. Chapter Two examines the background and evolution of the harmonization process on unfair competition on European level and summarizes present applicable directives. It also provides a brief note on respective Czech regulation in which these European directives were implemented. Chapter Three is dedicated to the subject of misleading advertising as defined by the Directive 2006/114/EC. The first part of this chapter provides a description of misleading advertising, second part illustrates the approach of CJ EU in its decisions. Third part is concerned with the Czech regulation of misleading advertising while it can be concluded that Czech regulation is sufficient according to required European standard without further need of implementation. Chapter Four is concerned with the comparative advertising and is subdivided into three main parts. Its first part contains a summary of conditions under...
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