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Trade Marks and Their Practical Use in Economic Competition
Vančura, Jan ; Horáček, Vít (advisor) ; Plíva, Stanislav (referee)
The purpose of this thesis is to outline the legal institution of trade marks in the current positive law - i.e. de lege lata, to introduce the rights and obligations granted and imposed by this legal regulation and to portray the actual usage of these in economic competition, with focus on their enforcement by suit of law in case of the infringement of these rights and obligations by third parties (most commonly competitors). This thesis contains direct citations and certain acquired professional opinions, the source of each of which is denoted in an appended footnote. The first chapter of this thesis is a theoretical introduction, comprising of the definition of trade marks, the national, community and international legal regulation of trade marks and a brief history of trademarks. The second chapter discusses the functions of trade marks, especially their uses in economic competition, their utility from the consumer's perspective and their impact on the market economy. The third chapter of this thesis includes a description of the registration procedure, which is a precondition for the creation of the right to legal protection of trade marks, an enumeration of the particular rights and obligations of persons (namely the owner of a trade mark and third parties) and a description of certain...
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Trade Marks and Their Practical Use in Economic Competition
Vančura, Jan ; Horáček, Vít (advisor) ; Plíva, Stanislav (referee)
61\dokument1\23 December 2011 Abstract The purpose of this thesis is to outline the legal institution of trade marks in the current positive law - i.e. de lege lata, to introduce the rights and obligations granted and imposed by this legislation and to portray the actual usage of these in economic competition, with focus on their enforcement by suit of law in case of the infringement of these rights and obligations by third parties (most commonly competitors). This thesis contains direct citations and certain acquired professional opinions, the source of each of which is denoted in an appended footnote. The first chapter of this thesis is a theoretical introduction, comprising of the definition of trade marks, the national, community and international legal regulation of trade marks and a brief history of trademarks. The second chapter of this thesis is a description of the registration procedure, which is a precondition for the creation of the right to legal protection of trade marks, including the protection against unlawfully registered trade marks. The third chapter, which is the core of this thesis, discusses the uses and functions of trade marks, especially their uses in economic competition, their utility from the consumer's perspective and their impact on the market economy. This chapter also...
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Trade marks
Pelíšková, Radka ; Slováková, Zuzana (advisor) ; Horáček, Vít (referee)
Résumé Trademarks The topic of my diploma thesis is trademarks. The purpose of this work is to discuss the fundamental issues concerning trademarks including types of trademarks especially non- traditional ones, trademark registration application procedure in the Czech Republic and other related topics. A trademark is a designation which serves to differentiate products or services on the market. The purpose of a trademark is to distinguish goods and services of one producer from those of another. This designation helps consumers to find goods and services and to select the product that they want. Trademarks therefore become an integral part of our lives. Trademarks in the Czech Republic are governed by Act No. 441/2003 Coll., on Trademarks, Regulation No. 97/2004 Coll., concerning implementation of the Trademark Act and the protection of trademarks is ensured by Act No. 221/2006 Coll., on Enforcement of Industrial Property Rights. A trademark can only be a designation which can be graphically represented and which is capable of distinguishing products or services for which it is protected from other identical products or services on the market. A trademark therefore cannot exist on its own, but always in connection with certain products or services which it designates. An applicant submits a trademark...
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Release of American Product on Czech and International Market and Its Legal Protection
Marčík, Petr ; Boháček, Martin (advisor) ; Burda, Aaron Edward (referee)
The diploma thesis investigates issues of releasing a product on the market. It deals with its general safety and indicates its position in the area of intellectual property law. The main goal of the thesis is to offer a complex review of a means and ways of various products protection while they are being released on a consumer market by individual entrepreneuers with respect to different legal systems. One of the minor goal will discover the difficulty of product release on the market and will define in terms of legislation what each step includes and means for companies. The reader should understand the complexity of international law in the area of intellectual property law. The first chapter follows the prologue part and provide more information about the importance of product legal protection. The second chapter will enlighten complexity and difficulty of the term intellectual property itself. The third chapter is devoted to an analysis of international legal norms with respect to general legislation - international binding contracts and agreements. The fourth chapter is focused at term of trademark. The czech and european legislation will be compared. The fifth chapter describes computer legal protection and license contract. Again we will look into this issue from perspective of czech and european legislation. The sixth chapter will show the proper way of legal protection of actual american products.
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Legal aspects of valuation of trademarks
Mášová, Hedvika ; Boháček, Martin (advisor) ; Čada, Karel (referee)
This thesis deals with problems of legal aspects of valuation of trademarks. The first part concentrates on a specific legislation of trademarks and its historical development, describes meaning of immaterial property and industrial law and determines its legislation in Czech Republic. Here are also briefly described international rules that are in connection with valuation of trademarks. In this part are also given reasons of valuation of trademarks and methods suited for this valuating. The second part contains case study representing legislation and methods of valuation of trademarks on specific example.
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Legal Aspects of the Unregistered Marks of Goods and Services Used in the Course of Trade
Vozáb, Jakub ; Boháček, Martin (advisor) ; Jakl, Ladislav (referee) ; Tomsa, Miloš (referee)
This dissertation theses addresses the phenomenon of the unregistered mark for goods and services in accordance with trade mark law of the Czech Republic, while taking into consideration the given scope of EU law and its comparison with the legal protection of applied trade marks in the framework of the "passing-off" doctrine of the legal systems of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. While the subject of trade marks has already been thoroughly established in juristic theory and has also become commonplace in legal practice, the institute of the unregistered trade mark has not yet to be comprehensively examined, and as such it presents significant difficulties in applied practice, as it bears no solid legal foundation, and in the context of the regulations of trade mark law it is always possible to identify specific special entitlements arising from the existence or application of unregistered trade marks, whereas the nature of their verbal formulations and systematic classification presents difficulties in the interpretation and application of such entitlements. The basis for this reasoning is namely the historical evolution of the phenomenon of the unregistered mark in trade mark law in Austrian, respectively in subsequent Cisleithania, and its reception and evolvement within Czechoslovak law as the legal predecessor to the Czech Republic. The goal of the research presented herein is to identify answers to the underlying theoretical questions concerning unregistered marks of fundamental significance to applied practice, and in so far as they concern the nature of the unregistered mark as perceived by trade mark law and its definitional attributes, terms of origin, duration, and expiration of unregistered marks, or more precisely as they concern rights to them, as well as the terms and scope of disposition with unregistered marks, namely in so far as they in turn relate to transfer or conversion and the grant of license or other temporary right of use. Subsequently, the establishment of answers to the aforementioned questions addresses the problem of the absence of an explicit legal principle to the phenomenon of the unregistered mark and the interpretation difficulties offered in the poorly formulated laws and subsequent fluctuations in legal practice. This problem is examined within the legal setting of the Czech Republic as a democratic nation with a market economy, in which holds true the classic legal rudiment of "that which is not prohibited by law is permitted", and in which hold true the fundamental and indefeasible rights of man, a component of which is the right to freely pursue economic activities and possess property within a framework of restrictions favouring the preservation of the rights of others as set forth by the law.
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Industrial property protection
Čada, Karel ; Jakl, Ladislav (advisor) ; Boháček, Martin (referee) ; Vojčík, Peter (referee) ; Hajn, Petr (referee)
Annotation Innovations have been accompanying the human society during the whole era of its development. The concerns in stimulation of the innovations have lead to efforts for legal protection. Time limitation of patent owner's rights to an exclusive use of a technical solution has been raising opinion disputes during the whole period of its evolution. Even nowadays, in Czech as well as in European context, there are still many questions open in range of the patent protection and to contribute to its better understanding and clarification has been the main goal of this publication. From the point of view of the Czech milieu we have been living in a period of a growing attention paid to innovations while at the same time it has been a period filled with many substantial changes in range of the protection of technical solutions. The Czech Republic's access to the European Patent Convention has within the scope of this international agreement enabled validity of the European patents granted by the decision of the European Patent Office in the Czech territory for the first time. In addition, our country had became a member of the European Communities what has resulted in important changes in legislation regarding the industrial property rights protection and partially regarding the solutions protected by patents as well. These facts have had a considerable impact on the business environment in the Czech Republic, giving the Czech Republic the role of an active player on the European patent playground. This writing deals in particular with the matters of legal protection of inventions and their economic impact, while in some parts of this work, somewhat unsystematically; it swings into contemplations about the industrial property itself. This happens willfully and with an intention to analyze some of the issues in broader context and therewith contribute to better understanding of the complicated and in some cases distinctively contradictory or controversially manifesting relationships. First part of this book characterizes elementary issues of the patent law, thus not only historically but as regards the contemporary European and Czech legal milieu as well. European patent system is represented by the activities of the European Patent Organization and national patent offices. The Community patent system, despite the effort put in during the past 50 years, is still does not exist. However, this does not mean that current system does not provide us with numerous issues enough to contemplate about and analyze. The decisions of the European Patent Office are influenced by the diversity of the historic evolution of the patent systems in various parts of Europe; therefore they can be used as an interesting inspiration and study material for the expert public. That is the reason why there is often referred to them in this work. On the other hand, the legal relations originated from the European patents, after the European patent protection had been granted, are a subject to a review according to the national legislation, therefore it is not surprising that the decisions and results of similar disputes not seldom bring different results. It is therefore worth to analyze them thoroughly. The extent of this work has only allowed me to concentrate only on some of the above mentioned issues, such are the possibility of legal protection of computer2 implemented inventions, issues connected with the extent of the patent protection and basic ideas on financial assessment of technical solutions, primarily of the patents. Some more detailed considerations were included too, such as about the debates and their progress in European level. Herewith I mean the matters concerning the translations of European and possibly Community patents, patent protection quality and in long term, thought until now unsuccessful debates regarding the creation of the European patent judiciary.
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Licence agreement to the objects of industrial property
Brázdová, Jana ; Malý, Josef (advisor) ; Halík, Jaroslav (referee)
Licence agreement is one of the most important tools when trading with intangibles. The goal of this thesis is to summarize the theoretical concept related to licence, licence agreement and protection of the industrial property and its practical application on the particular licence agreement. The introductory chapter is focused on division of intangible goods and features of respective forms of industrial property. Main focus is devoted to the part about types of licences and concluding licence agreement.
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Intellectual Property and its Protection
Kolková, Veronika ; Hejda, Jan (advisor) ; Přibyl, Karel (referee)
My bachelor thesis deals with intellectual property. Work is more focused on issues of trade marks, for what reason are trademarks rise, how are the methods of appreciation trademarks, and how tjey have a significant share in the intellectual property in our country and the world. Then explain function of the Industrial Property Office, which has a very important role in intellectual property. They also described some of the disputes relating to the protection of marks.
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License agreement in international trade
Török, David ; Malý, Josef (advisor)
The purpose of this work is to summarize and explain the context around the licenses, license agreements and protection of intangible goods, with the main focus on industrial property, in particular, inventions, designs, utility models and trademarks. The first part is about clasiffication of intangible goods and characteristics of industrial property. Next part deals with the protection of intangible goods, particularly from the international point of view, i.e. international conventions and organizations. It also includes comparison of protection in the three major economic centers - Europe, USA and Japan. Next part deals with the license agreement. From the explanation of the concept of a license, through the reasons leading to such relations, to the procedure of negotiating about the license agreement and its content, including a model of patent licensing agreements.
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