Intellectual property rights - European standards and the law of the Republic of Serbia Cover Image

Права интелектуалне својине - европски стандарди и право Републике Србије
Intellectual property rights - European standards and the law of the Republic of Serbia

Author(s): Ana Jovašević
Subject(s): International Law, EU-Legislation
Published by: Институт за међународну политику и привреду
Keywords: European Union;directives;law;intellectual property;copyright;related rights;right of competition

Summary/Abstract: In the last couple of years, within the European Union Law or the so – called “European Community law” several different documents have been adopted, establishing the system of European standards in the field of regulating and protecting intellectual property rights, as well as the right of competition, in order to prevent the collision between these two significant rights that represent preconditions for further technological progress of the European Union member states. These rights refer to various forms of material (tangible) and immaterial (intangible) creations that are placed under special legal protection, guaranteed not only for their authors (creators) but for other persons as well. The Republic of Serbia has recently adopted new legislation regulating the field of intellectual property rights, including: Law on Copyright and Related Rights, Law on Trademarks, Law on the protection of Topographies of Integrated Circuits and Law on the Legal Protection of Industrial Design. Hence, our country accepted numerous European standards from this field and implemented them in its national legal system, which actually represents the issue discussed in this paper.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 42
  • Page Range: 211-230
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Serbian