Theory and practice of intellectual property
№ 6 / 2021

ISSN (Print) 2308-0361
ISSN (Online) 2519-2744

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.33731/62021.249016

Published      2021-12-27

Types of infractions of trademark property rights. Аnalysis
of judicial practice

Nataliia Minchenko
Ukraine
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1835-3803

Abstract
The relevance of this article is that the largest number of legal disputes in the sphere of intellectual property is disputes concerning violation of property rights for trademarks. The article examined the theoretical provisions of property rights for trademarks, as well as practical issues of violations of these rights. Special attention is paid to the analysis of judicial practice concerning protection of rights to trademarks. The categories of the mentioned cases have been highlighted and discussed in detail, statistical data and decisions have been made. It has been found that the overwhelming number of cases investigated concerns recognition of the Ukrainian trademark certificate as invalid.

The court cases on protection of rights to trademarks can be divided into several categories according to the claim requirements:

1) On the recognition of the Ukrainian trademark certificate as invalid in whole or in part (for all or part of goods and/or services);

2) On termination of infringement of intellectual property rights on the trademark and obligation to take certain actions;

3) On early termination of the Ukrainian trademark certificate in whole or in part (for all or part of goods and/or services);

4) Other court cases. For example, the recognition of the non-legal patent of Ukraine for industrial design due to violation of rights for the registered trademark.

The article contains detailed consideration of the mentioned categories of cases and statistical data about them.

The analysis of judicial practice made it possible to establish the following statistical data: cases of invalidation of a trademark certificate are 47 %; cases on termination of infringement of rights to the trademark are 25 %; cases on early termination of the trademark certificate are 25 %; other cases on protection of rights to trademarks make 3 %.

In addition, the analysis of court practice allowed to establish that 75 % of court cases concerning protection of rights to trademarks are decided to satisfy the claim in full or in part.

Keywords: property rights to the trademark, infractions of property rights, judicial practice, protection of trademark rights, invalidation of the trademark certificate, early termination of the certificate

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