The theory of exhaustion of rights generally says that in case of introduction of a product (medicine)in the market by the holder of the right or with his consent, the rights are exhausted and generally speaking the holder of right may not restrict any further movement of the product (medicine).

We have recently received a number of remarkable court decisions, concerning rights in appellations. By a ruling on appeal against a rejecting first instance decision, the High Court in Prague ordered a preliminary injunction, imposing upon defendant an obligation to refrain from dispositions with a domain name which was (apart from others) a subject matter of the litigation.

The grant scheme, designed to encourage SMEs to expand their IP portfolios, has a budget of EUR 20 mil. evenly divided between five bi-monthly application windows.

The Czech Statistical Office (CSU) has recently released a report on domestic patent applications for the period 2002–2011, which shows that the Czech PTO approved 2,904 patents out of 6,848 patent applications in this period.

The European Commission and European Intellectual Property Office ("EUIPO") have launched a small and medium sized business fund (SME Fund) to provide reimbursement for trademark...

The registration data protection enables competitors in the field of medical preparations to ensure for a certain limited period of time exclusive rights to data gathered for testing the safety and effectiveness of a medical preparation, namely with respect to results of pharmacological and toxicological tests and clinical tests.

Hoteliers and other accommodation providers such as boarding houses may soon have to pay copyright fees for TVs and radios in guest rooms, in addition to concessionary fees.

Design work is unique and enticing at the same time. But can something like this be protected from the persistent fingers of plagiarists?

The Supreme Court of the Czech Republic as a court of third instance confirmed the decision of the Regional Court in Ostrava and High Court of Appeal in Olomouc that it was really a question of an unfair competition if a competitor (in this case defendants) used for marking arms by a denomination consisting of letters "CZ" and completed by numerical or perhaps other denomination, which the plaintiff had previously used for marking arms in the course of his entrepreneurial activity.

The amendment also responds to some practical issues in relation to the licensing of copyrighted works, and generally aims to make the Copyright Act more coherent.

The European Commission issued an informal guidance letter to the Automotive Licensing Negotiation Group (ALNG), marking the first application of the Informal Guidance Notice...

In January this year, the Czech Supreme Court ruled that a physical marketplace is, from the perspective of intellectual property rights, equal to an online marketplace.

The Schoenherr Journal, published in April 2017 by Schoenherr's Prague office examines the most recent and most important legal developments in the Czech Republic

At the end of last month, the Regional Court in Brno declared null and void two decisions of the Office for the Protection of Competition, which fined collective management entities...

The Czech Republic has adopted a new law concerning customs enforcement of intellectual property rights in relation to goods placed on the Czech national market (Act No. 355/2014 Coll.).

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