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The Journal of East European Law - JEEL Vol. 10 No. 2
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JEEL Vol. 10 No. 2
I. A SURVEY OF CZECH INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW
A. General Remarks
1. The General Background
The Czech Republic1 has about 10.5 million inhabitants. Its
territory is situated right in the center of Europe and borders
Germany, Austria, Poland and Slovakia. The country is located in the
historical lands of Bohemia, Moravia and part of Silesia and has a
thousand-year historical tradition linked with the Czech Kingdom
and other lands of the Czech Crown. In its present form, the Czech
Republic appeared in 1993 as one of the legal successors of the
Czech and Slovak Federative Republic, which came to an end by
separation (divided into the Czech Republic and the Slovak
Republic).2 The form of the Czech state is democratic republic
IVO TELEC -The author is a professor of civil law at the Faculty of Law, Masaryk
University, Brno, the Czech Republic, and an advocate.
PAVEL TŮMA - The author is a post-graduate student at the Faculty of Law, Masaryk
University, Brno, the Czech Republic.
