Protection of civil rights through mechanism for suppression of unfair competition and avoidance of abuse of exclusive right to a trademark
https://doi.org/10.30729/2541-8823-2020-5-4-331-341
Abstract
The article investigates separate issues of civil rights protection in case of violation of balance of rights and interests of participants of civil legal relations due to unfair competition and abuse of exclusive right to a trademark. The paper focuses on the study of the essence of abuse of rights and unfair competition and how the two categories relate to each other. The author has analyzed the possibility to define some special corpus delicti constituting the abuse of the exclusive right to a trademark and unfair competition and made a conclusion about the inexpediency of the legislative definition of such corpus delicti. The analysis of judicial practice has revealed a number of criteria that should be taken into account when qualifying actions to acquire and exercise an exclusive right to a trademark as an abuse of right or unfair competition and an obligatory component of any composition is the bad faith of participants of civil legal relations.
About the Author
N. M. Frolova
Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MSAL)
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Natalia Frolova (Moscow, Russia) – Candidate of Legal Sciences, Assistant Professor
9 Sadovaya-Kudrunskaya St., 125993, Moscow
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Frolova N.M. Protection of civil rights through mechanism for suppression of unfair competition and avoidance of abuse of exclusive right to a trademark. Kazan University Law Review. 2020;5(4):331-341. https://doi.org/10.30729/2541-8823-2020-5-4-331-341
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