Recently there have been cases of “theft” of trademarks and logos from other companies and organisations renowned for the quality of their products and compliance with standards. This leads to unfair competition and distrust of the brand products among consumers.
According to Article 4 of the Law “On Competition” unfair competition is aimed at obtaining advantages in carrying out economic activity which contradict the legislation, customs of business turnover and cause or may cause losses to other business entities (competitors) or cause or may cause damage to their business reputation. Under Article 13 of this Law, unfair competition is prohibited.
In case of unfair competition, it is not allowed to place on goods, labels, packages signs similar to trademark or trade name of a business entity (competitor).
Therefore, protection of intellectual property is an important task. Entrepreneurs, being well aware of this, turn to the Competition Committee to protect their rights in court when they encounter infringements.
The appeals mainly concern cases of unlawful use of a protected trademark, counterfeiting by copying product packaging, imitating trademarks in company names.
The complaint was filed by Societe des Produits Nestle S.A. (Switzerland) for the manufacture and sale of ice cream products, it was found that the trademark “KIT KAT” was registered with Societe des Produits Nestle S.A. and belonged to the company. However, the business entity located in Samarkand produced and sold ice cream with the trademark “KIT KIT” similar to the applicant’s trademark, which led to unfair competition.
The cases of using the trademark “ROTBANT”, analogue of “ROTBAND” and “NATSS”, analogue of “NUTS” trademark, by some business entities of the region were detected, and as a result the violations of the law were eliminated.
Besides, as a result of the work done by the territorial department there were taken measures to change the trade names of 54 companies using “AKFA” in their names and 5 companies using “ARTEL”.
According to the results of consideration of the appeals received by the territorial administration, the enterprises which have allowed violation of the legislation have been given instructions to stop violation of the legislation and to prevent it in the future, to protect intellectual property of the owner of a trade mark. rights has been provided.
