Law Against Unfair Competition

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-X

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2. The Law Against Unfair Competition and Its Interfaces

   • Reto M. Hilty

   Pages 1-52

3. International Unfair Competition Law

   • Frauke Henning-Bodewig

   Pages 53-60

4. Protection Against Unfair Competition at the International Level — The Paris Convention, the 1996 Model Provisions and the Current Work of the World Intellectual Property Organisation

   • Marcus Höpperger, Martin Senftleben

   Pages 61-76

5. The Law Against Unfair Competition and the EC Treaty

   • Jochen Glöckner

   Pages 77-99

6. The ECJ’s Case Law on Unfair Competition

   • Jochen Glöckner

   Pages 101-109

7. Secondary Unfair Competition Law

   • Frauke Henning-Bodewig

   Pages 111-125

8. The Unfair Commercial Practices Directive

   • Wolfgang Schuhmacher

   Pages 127-137

9. Belgian Report: Example of an Integrated Approach

   • Jules Stuyck

   Pages 139-150

10. Brief Report on Italian Unfair Competition Law

    • Paolo Auteri

    Pages 151-160

11. The Scandinavian Model of Unfair Competition Law

    • Antonina Bakardjieva Engelbrekt

    Pages 161-181

12. Unfair Competition Law in the United Kingdom

    • Jennifer Davis

    Pages 183-198

13. The Legal Framework of Unfair Market Practices in Hungary

    • Judit Firniksz

    Pages 199-204

14. The Law Against Unfair Competition in the Czech Republic

    • Petr Hajn

    Pages 205-209

15. The Legal Regulation of Unfair Competition in the Slovak Republic

    • Anton Škreko

    Pages 211-220

16. Unfair Competition Law in Slovenia

    • Peter Grilc

    Pages 221-229

17. Poland: Unfair Competition Law

    • Ryszard Skubisz, Janusz Szwaja

    Pages 231-248

18. Unfair Competition Law in the Baltic States

    • Vytautas Mizaras

    Pages 249-257

19. Back Matter

    Pages 259-271

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Unfair competition law is concerned with fair play in commerce. It is generally regarded as necessary – together with antitrust law – in order to steer competition along an orderly course, and thereby to contribute to promoting an efficient market system that serves the interests of all participants. Nevertheless the significance of unfair competition law varies from one country to another. Whereas in some countries, such as Germany, it is seen as one of the most effective commercial laws, in other countries, such as the United Kingdom, it leads rather a shadowy existence. From the outset, this discrepancy laid in the differences in national legal s- tems. Whilst those continental European countries that possessed a written civil law when instances of unfair competition emerged, more or less successfully attempted to incorporate them in the existing tort law system, protection in the common law countries was restricted to some narrowly defined torts, in particular “passing off”. At this stage one of the few shared convictions was, that the protection of “honest entrepreneurs” was at issue; on this basis, in 1900, the only regulation at the int- bis national level until now was enacted, Art. 10 of the Paris Convention.

• Consumer Protection
• European Union (EU)
• European harmonisation
• Hungary
• Unfair Competition
• competition law
• economy

• Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law, Munich, Germany

  Reto M. Hilty, Frauke Henning-Bodewig

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