Legal Penalty for Unfair Competition Unfair competition law has quite a long tradition in the Czech Republic. After the recodification of private law, the basis of the legal regulation of unfair competition is contained in the Civil Code, which is a fundamental code of the general civil law. Other legal remedies are based in the Civil Procedure Code. In the last decades some elements of the public law also infiltrated the system of legal penalties for unfair competition. The aim of this diploma thesis is to introduce the system of legal penalties for unfair competition in the Czech Republic. The main emphasis is put on the private law regulation, i.e. the regulation contained in the Civil Code and the Civil Procedure Code. The text of this thesis focuses on the comparison of the particular remedies under the Civil Code with the remedies that used to be anchored in the Commercial Code as well as on the alterations put on the unfair competition law in connection with enacting the new Civil Code. The thesis is divided into four chapters. Chapter One first of all briefly introduces unfair competition law and sets it in the context of international law and European law. Additionally, the meaning of the general clause of unfair competition and its relationship with the special statutory clauses of unfair...

Legal Penalties for Unfair Competition As the unfair competition has become the part of business due to the fact that businessmen are trying to achieve the profit, it is necessary to set up legal rules and restrictions to assure the fair competition, i.e. competition without unfairness and negative effect on functionality of the economic competition. The aim of the diploma thesis is to analyse legal penalties of unfair competition especially in Czech legal order by means of interpretation of affected legal provisions together with judicature of the Supreme Court and other courts. First part of the thesis concerns theoretical scope of legal concepts concerning the unfair competition. The second chapter deals with active and passive legitimacy of subjects according to the Commercial Code. Both chapters give the theoretical framework for the whole thesis. The core of the diploma thesis is the third and fourth part, whereas the third part concerns the means of protection against unfair competition which are divided into several groups according to the law in which they are regulated (private law, public law divided into administrative and penal law, European law) and focuses on private law with using rich judicature of Czech courts. The fourth part regards specific procedural institutes that are...