Protection of industrial property and international law

Protection of industrial property and international law The purpose of my thesis, which theme is "Protection of industrial property and international law", is to describe and to analyse the industrial property protection from the international law perspective. The thesis consists of nine chapters, the introduction and the conclusion included, dealing with the issue of the industrial property protection, especially with the conception and historical development of international protection of industrial property and with current systems of this protection, focusing on weaknesses and strongnesses of current international legal protection of industrial property. First of all, the thesis deals with a definition of the term "industrial property". The "industrial property" is a complicated category, because there is no general legal definition of this term. As from the international treaties regarding industrial property outflows, the legal definition of this term is replaced by the list of intangibles which are included in this term. This chapter is concluded with the acceptance of this approach of "no general legal definition" stating that because of the technical development and connected development of industrial property items, a general legal definition of the term industrial property would have only limited..