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Implementation of the EU Enforcement Directive in the Baltic Countries
Experience in View of the Development of Protection of Intellectual Property Rights- Autor:innen:
- Reihe:
- Munich Intellectual Property Law Center - MIPLC Studies, Band 7
- Verlag:
- 2010
Zusammenfassung
Die Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit den Rechtsvorschriften zum Schutz geistigen Eigentums in den baltischen Staaten.
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Bibliographische Angaben
- Copyrightjahr
- 2010
- ISBN-Print
- 978-3-8329-5784-1
- ISBN-Online
- 978-3-8452-2693-4
- Verlag
- Nomos, Baden-Baden
- Reihe
- Munich Intellectual Property Law Center - MIPLC Studies
- Band
- 7
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Seiten
- 262
- Produkttyp
- Monographie
Inhaltsverzeichnis
KapitelSeiten
- Titelei/InhaltsverzeichnisSeiten 2 - 16 Download Kapitel (PDF)
- AbbreviationsSeiten 17 - 20 Download Kapitel (PDF)
- Subject-matter and objectives of the researchSeiten 21 - 25 Download Kapitel (PDF)
- Structure of this studySeiten 25 - 28 Download Kapitel (PDF)
- Specificity of the geopolitical situation of the Baltic countries: the general contextSeiten 29 - 31 Download Kapitel (PDF)
- Industrial property legislation
- Copyright legislation
- IP as a part of Soviet civil law
- Aspects of enforcement of IP rights under the Soviet regulation
- Adoption of the new national IP legislation
- Adherence to the international treaties on IP protection
- Substantial reforms in the field of enforcement of IP rights regarding the implementation of acquis communautaireSeiten 46 - 48 Download Kapitel (PDF)
- Concluding remarksSeiten 48 - 49 Download Kapitel (PDF)
- Adoption of national IP legislation: some procedural aspectsSeiten 49 - 51 Download Kapitel (PDF)
- The Ministries of Culture: the Copyright Divisions and Boards
- The collective administration societies
- The trademark and patent offices
- The police authorities: a good start in IP rights infringement cases is crucial
- Customs authorities: ensuring effective measures at the borders
- General structure of the court systems
- Role of the national Supreme Courts
- Establishment of specialized courts: a solution for the Baltic countries?
- Common judiciary in the framework of community rights: Baltic perspective
- Legal representation
- Patent and trademark attorneys
- Concluding remarksSeiten 65 - 66 Download Kapitel (PDF)
- Social changes in the Baltic countries in view of the accession into the European UnionSeiten 67 - 69 Download Kapitel (PDF)
- IP piracy in the Baltics: prevailing tendencies and impact on the national IP rights enforcement legislationSeiten 69 - 71 Download Kapitel (PDF)
- General remarksSeiten 71 - 72 Download Kapitel (PDF)
- IP teaching: a role of the national educational institutions and a level of the scientific researchSeiten 72 - 74 Download Kapitel (PDF)
- Research and development areas
- Foreign and local investments in local IP industries
- Promoting activities in the Baltic universities
- IP strategy in the local business sector
- Level of the national governments’ regulation and their support in the field of research and development
- Concluding remarksSeiten 80 - 82 Download Kapitel (PDF)
- Supportive positions
- Criticised aspects
- Adopted EU Enforcement Directive: tension remained?
- Community’s competence to legislate on enforcement of IP rights
- Necessity to adopt a directive on enforcement of IP rights
- Prior EU-wide provisions on enforcement of IP rights
- Character of the provisions of the Enforcement Directive
- Right of information (Article 8)
- Corrective measures (Article 10)
- Injunction (Article 11)
- Alternative measures (Article 12)
- Damages (Article 13)
- Publication of judicial decisions (Article 15)
- Evidence (Article 6)
- Measures for preserving evidence (Article 7)
- Provisional and precautionary measures (Article 9)
- Legal costs (Article 14)
- Concluding remarksSeiten 107 - 108 Download Kapitel (PDF)
- Copyright legislation
- Industrial property legislation
- Duration of the implementation of the Directive
- General remarks
- Copyright legislation
- Industrial property legislation
- Concluding remarksSeiten 118 - 119 Download Kapitel (PDF)
- The Commission’s position
- IP right holders and their economic rights
- Moral rights
- Non-property rights, firm names, commercial (industrial) secrets
- Civil enforcement remedies in cases of infringements of “grey area” rights
- Areas to which the Directive has no prejudice
- Applicability of the Directive to any infringement of IP rights
- Embodiment of the term in the Draft Enforcement Directive
- Relevance of the definition of “commercial scale” in IP enforcement practice
- Before the implementation of the Directive
- Implementing amendments: finally solving the issue of the “commercial purposes”?
- Essence of the principle
- Embodiment of the principal in the Baltic legislation and practice
- Debatable aspects of the “presumption” provision set out in Article 5 of the Directive
- Authorship presumption
- Reversal of burden of proof under the national patent legislation
- List of persons having a right to assert enforcement measures and remedies under Article 4 of the Directive
- IP right holders
- Before the implementation of the Directive
- The implementing provisions regarding locus standi
- Rights-management collective societies and professional defence bodies
- Foreign natural and legal persons
- Concluding remarksSeiten 148 - 150 Download Kapitel (PDF)
- General remarks
- Prior-to-implementation regulation of measures preserving evidence
- Implementing amendments on measures preserving evidence
- General aspects
- Substantiated requests by interested parties
- Presentation of “reasonably available evidence” by the requesting party
- Most frequent evidence in civil search cases in Lithuania
- Application of measures preserving evidence on ex parte basis
- Sufficiency of evidence and application of “samples” provision
- Enforcing court rulings on civil searches
- Requirement to submit a civil claim
- Protection of interests of the opposing party (alleged infringers)
- Scope and content of requested information
- Providers of requested information
- Concluding remarksSeiten 172 - 174 Download Kapitel (PDF)
- Objectives and nature
- Requirements for application of interlocutory injunctions
- Injunctions against the continuation of IP infringements
- Possibilities of preventive claims
- Injunctions against intermediaries
- Assurance of compliance with permanent injunctions
- Concluding remarksSeiten 183 - 184 Download Kapitel (PDF)
- General remarks regarding compensation of damages
- Civil legal liability conditions
- Reimbursement of direct material damages
- Loss of profit
- An infringer’s gained profit; unjustified enrichment
- Pre-established damages
- General grounds for alternative methods to compensate damages
- Compensation instead of actual damages (losses)
- License analogy method
- Moral prejudice (non-pecuniary damages)
- National procedural rules on legal costs
- Practical aspects regarding covering of legal costs
- Corrective measures in view of Article 10 of the Directive
- Alternative measures in view of Article 12 of the Directive
- Publication of judicial decisions in view of Article 15 of the DirectiveSeiten 210 - 211 Download Kapitel (PDF)
- Concluding remarksSeiten 211 - 213 Download Kapitel (PDF)
- General overview of the national provisions
- Relevant aspects of administrative and criminal liability
- Adjudication of civil damages in administrative and criminal cases
- General remarks
- Border measures and civil remedies as implemented under the Enforcement Directive
- Concluding remarksSeiten 225 - 226 Download Kapitel (PDF)
- Implementation of the Enforcement Directive in the Baltic countries: outcomesSeiten 227 - 229 Download Kapitel (PDF)
- Further strengthening IP rights enforcement: incentives to innovate and create in the Baltics?Seiten 229 - 230 Download Kapitel (PDF)
- BibliographySeiten 231 - 240 Download Kapitel (PDF)
- International TreatiesSeiten 241 - 241 Download Kapitel (PDF)
- European Union Legislation and Preparatory ActsSeiten 241 - 242 Download Kapitel (PDF)
- LithuaniaSeiten 242 - 243 Download Kapitel (PDF)
- LatviaSeiten 243 - 244 Download Kapitel (PDF)
- EstoniaSeiten 244 - 244 Download Kapitel (PDF)
- Annex II: CasesSeiten 245 - 248 Download Kapitel (PDF)
- Summary (in German)Seiten 249 - 256 Download Kapitel (PDF)
- IndexSeiten 257 - 262 Download Kapitel (PDF)
