Analysis of the Experience of EU and USA in the Context of Improvement of the Ukrainian Legislation on Protection Against Unfair Competition in the Sphere of Intellectual Property

Abstract

Keywords: legislation, legal regulation, unfair competition, intellectual property,remedies, European Union Currently, violations of intellectual property rights are widespread through the prism of distortion of economiccompetition in the market. Objects of intellectual property, such as trademarks and trade secrets, are a tool for some business entities to obtain illegal profits at the expense of the reputation of other business entities. Precisely for this reason businessentities pay attention to monitoring and preventing possible violations of their intellectual property rights on the market, and this, in turn, requires the use of effective ways of protection. That it is important to improve the legislation of Ukraine on protection against unfair competition and development of new means of combating such violations.Having analysed the system of EU legislation, it can be concluded that the regulation of protection against unfair competition at the level of the EU is still more of a framework, and requires clarifying, as well as the provision of specific liability measuresand institutional mechanisms of ensuring and control at the level of legislation of specific EU member states.In the USA on the federal level there is no special legislative act on unfair competition, but the relevant rules are part of the general antitrust legislation. From this point of view, the respective legislation of Ukraine significantly differs by availabilityof the special Law. However, in Ukraine the rules on unfair competition are also to some extent subordinated to the general rules of economic competition protection in general. Unlike Ukrainian legislation, US legislation determines an exhaustive list ofactions that constitute unfair competition and distinguishes them into unfair actions and unfair practices depending on their recurrence.