UNFAIR COMPETITION LAW

We provide legal advice on the substantive and procedural issues connected with various acts of unfair competition. We also advise with respect to the injunction court procedures. The scope of our advice comprises such unfair competition practices as foreclosure of market access, designation of an enterprise and of a geographical origin, slavish imitation, infringement of trade secrets, charging of special fees for shelving a product and unfair advertising, including advertising prohibited in specific provisions.

Examples of cases on which MSM lawyers advised comprise the following:

• advice related to the publication of press advertisements deceptively similar to earlier advertisements of another undertaking;
• legal issues of imitation in the computer games industry;
• liability of the entity creating advertisements prohibited by law, such as advertisements of alcoholic beverages;
• advice on the counteracting of illegal imitations of packaging products;
• legal opinion concerning acts of unfair competition in the relations between two players in the publishing market.

Legislative activities (drafts and opinions)

Professors Janusz Barta and Ryszard Markiewicz were among members, and Jarosław Sroczyński was Secretary of, an Expert Commission set up by the President of the Antimonopoly Office, which prepared the draft and justification of the Law of April 16, 1993 on Combating of Unfair Competition.