Justinian Publishing House released the paper “Competition Law: Protection against Unfair Competition” co-authored by Head of the Legal Enforcement Laboratory of Science and Technology Development of the Institute of Intellectual Property of the National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine Gennady Androshchuk and President of the Association for Resistance to Unfair Competition (ARUC), senior partner at Arzinger Law Office Sergiy Shklyar.

The work is based on the generalized international research of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the authors’ systemic analysis of laws and regulations and of foreign and domestic judicial and departmental practice. It deals with the theoretical and practical aspects of competition law related to protection against unfair competition. The authors provide a detailed analysis and classify unfair competition practices (mixing, misleading, discrediting competitors, misuse of others’ trademarks, imitation, comparative advertising, violation of trade secrets, etc.) and show the mechanism of protection as well as civil, criminal and administrative sanctions applied to infringers.

The publication provides an in-depth analysis of foreign competition law and describes the peculiarities of legal regulation of protection against unfair competition in industrialized and post-socialist countries. The authors cite the provisions of WIPO Standards on protection against unfair competition; foreign litigation and dispute resolution practice of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine; practical comments to the Laws of Ukraine “On Protection from Unfair Competition” and “On Advertising”.

The book is designed for researchers, teachers, graduate students of law and economics departments, law practitioners, and employees of public agencies, businesses and all those interested in economic and legal issues of protection against unfair competition.

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