The name of a company, the concept of its legal regulation and protection

Resumé The aim of my thesis, as anticipated in the introduction, was to introduce to the reader the topic of company-name law with all its key institutes headed by the company name as such. In the process of executing the thesis I worked with older, as well as current literature, legislation and judicature while simultaneously using internet sources. I have made effort to provide a complex view of company name and the legal regulation related thereto, including the regulation on international and foreign (Slovak) level. Therefore, having carried out a general discourse on the concept and meaning of company name, I introduced the thesis with a brief historical excursion into the development of this insitute in the area of the Czech Republic which, as I believe, has provided at least an elementary base for understanding the current progress trends, as well as the current regulation in this field. This was followed by a part focused on the current Czech regulation, in which I closely adressed myself to the principles of company-name law and consequently to the particular means of protecting the company name which where, at the same time, the focal point of my studies of this matter. As I believe, that also in this field it is impossible to default the importance of the international regulation, I made an..