Legal penalties for unfair competition

Legal penalties for unfair competition This diploma thesis analyzes private law penalties for unfair competition, focusing on the means of protection provided by private law statutes. This thesis also deals with the questions of active and passive legitimacy in lawsuits concerning unfair competition and procedural specifics of these lawsuits. The thesis is divided into six chapters. The first charter offers an introduction to unfair competition law by presenting its substantive law provisions: the general clause and the special case clauses. The aim of this chapter is to outline the issue of unfair competition and define actions against which it is possible to use means of protection described in the following chapters. The second chapter focuses on subjects of unfair competition disputes: subjects actively legitimated but also subjects passively legitimated. This chapter also aims to define each of these individual subjects, such as competitors and consumers. The third chapter presents the essential means of protection against unfair competition provided by the Commercial Code. These are namely the claim to refrain from unfair competition practices, the claim to remove unfair competition situation, also the claim to provide damages for material losses, the claim to hand over unjustified enrichment..