Przestępstwa i wykroczenia przeciwko prawom własności przemysłowej

Abstract

The main method adopted for the protection of industrial property is civil liability, which uses claim litigation as the primary legal tool for addressing the exploitation of industrial property rightsand for recovering losses to the rights holder. However, in some cases the instruments of penal law are applied. In this respect the legislator saw fi t to incorporate penal provisions on the violation of industrial property rightsin the Polish Patent Act. This paper discusses the following offences and malfeasances against industrial property: 1) infringement of the moral rights of aninventor; 2) infringement of patent rights; 3) use of falsified trade-marks; 4) wilfully misleading third parties into believing in the existence of legal protection of an invention, utility model, etc., and the attendant principles of penal responsibility for committing such acts.