Law Against Unfair Competition Towards a New Paradigm in Europe? /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hilty, Reto M. (Editor), Henning-Bodewig, Frauke (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007.
• Series: MPI Studies on Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law ; 1
• Subjects: Law.; Political science.; Private international law.; Conflict of laws.; International law.; Comparative law.; Trade.; European Economic Community literature.; International Economic Law, Trade Law.; Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law.; European Integration.; Political Science.

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...

Table of Contents:

• The Law Against Unfair Competition and Its Interfaces
• International Unfair Competition Law
• 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
• The Law Against Unfair Competition and the EC Treaty
• The ECJ’s Case Law on Unfair Competition
• Secondary Unfair Competition Law
• The Unfair Commercial Practices Directive
• Belgian Report: Example of an Integrated Approach
• Brief Report on Italian Unfair Competition Law
• The Scandinavian Model of Unfair Competition Law
• Unfair Competition Law in the United Kingdom
• The Legal Framework of Unfair Market Practices in Hungary
• The Law Against Unfair Competition in the Czech Republic
• The Legal Regulation of Unfair Competition in the Slovak Republic
• Unfair Competition Law in Slovenia
• Poland: Unfair Competition Law
• Unfair Competition Law in the Baltic States.