| Abstract [eng] |
The Directive 2004/48/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the enforcement of intellectual property rights is the very first EU legislation aiming to approximate the legislative systems and to assimilate disparities in the field of intellectual property rights enforcement. In this paper we analyze the provisions of Directive 2004/48/EC related to the measures, procedures and remedies of intellectual property rights enforcement. Also, we evaluate the implementations of these provisions into the national legislatures of the EU Member states. The analysis focuses on Lithuania and some of the EU member states that have old traditions and essential differences on the matter: the United Kingdom, Germany and France. We do not attempt to examine all the civil remedies nor to describe thoroughly the practices of application of the civil remedies in the Member States in question; instead, the main attention in this paper is focused on the revelation of the legal nature of corresponding measures, procedures and remedies, and evaluation of appropriate implementations of Directive’s provisions into the selected legislature systems. The paper references various international, regional and national legislations of the four states, judiciary practices, travaux préparatoires, jurisprudence; as well as various studies, papers and publications of Lithuanian and foreign authors. |
