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Title:

Criminal provisions of the Plant Variety Protection Act — introduction to the role of economic criminal law in the intellectual property protection

ORCID:

0000-0003-1371-6860

Subject and Keywords:

plant variety rights   economic criminal law   legal protection   criminal sanctions   intellectual property   industrial property   patent   trademark

Abstract:

Applicable penal provisions of the Plant Variety Protection Act belong to economic criminal law, which protects a widely understood intellectual property rights. The main purpose of the present article is to attempt an evaluation of a cohesion of subjective legal regulations on the grounds of penal provisions contained in Copyright Law and Industrial Property Law. The author conducted an analysis concerning economic crimes and offenses included in Chapter III of the Plant Variety Protection Act from the technical and legislative perspective as well as its penal range. In the present study, there are included also some needed suggestions, concerning the necessity of potential changes, e.g. extension of the criminalization scope in the field of community regulations of protection of plant variety.Systemic interpretation of the penal provisions enables to emphasize the purposes and functions of the economic criminal law in the field of Intellectual Property Rights and its role which the mentioned provisions fulfill in relation to the existing administrative and civil sanctions.

Place of publishing:

Wrocław

Publisher:

Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego

Date issued:

2015

Date copyrighted:

2015

Identifier:

ISSN 0524-4544   ISSN 0239-6661

Source:

PAd P 101182 II

Language:

pol   eng

Relation:

Acta Universitatis Wratislaviensis, ISSN 0239-6661, No 3614. Prawo, ISSN 0524-4544, 2015, 317, s. 35-50

Is version of:

Czasopisma Naukowe w Sieci (CNS)

Rights holder:

Copyright by Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego Sp. z o.o.

Autor opisu:

WR U/PAdbg