Legal protection of industrial designs

This thesis deals with the legal protection granted to the industrial designs on the area of the Czech Republic since its beginning till the present time. It focuses on the differences of the present legal regulation of protection of industrial desings from the previous legal regulations. The core issue of the thesis is the legal regulation of beginning, continuance and expiration of the legal protection of an enlisted industrial design. It also deals with the various aspects connected with other problems of the right to protection of industrial designs from the point of view of the present legal regualation such as the rights arising from the enlisted industrial design, limitation of these rights and their expiration or legal means to protect the rights arising from the enlisted industrial design. The thesis deals also with the differences in the field of protection of a product according to the law on protection of industrial desings and on protection of authorship. A particular part of the thesis focuses on the international protection of industrial designs and on the protection of industrial designs in the framework of the European Union. The thesis respects also the consequences arising from case-law of the European Court of Justice (Court of Justice of the European Union) in the field of protection of..