Selected aspects of the law of fashion industry

This thesis defines fashion law as a specific horizontal legal field that relates to the protection of design, materials, manufacturing processes, technology, shapes, lines, colours, finishing and labelling, trademark infringement and copyright protection. Moreover, it deals with crucial topics in the field of fashion law including licensing and enforcement of rights to the products available to retailers, manufactures, and fashion designers. In addition, the thesis studies the establishment and development of fashion law abroad, particularly in the United States of America, as well as in the Czech Republic. In this thesis, the definition of fashion design includes its features and unique remarks in comparison to other types of design. Further, the thesis thoroughly examines and analyses the protection of fashion design available to retailers, fashion designers and manufactures under Czech law, especially trademark protection, copyright protection, competition law and trade dress protection. It studies various sources of law, including case law, statutes, international treaties and soft law that relate to the protection given by the Czech and other legal systems. Moreover, it analyses the concurrence of the copyright protection of design and industrial design protection. Finally, the thesis studies..