ПОРІВНЯЛЬНИЙ АНАЛІЗ СПОСОБІВ ЗАХИСТУ ПРАВ ВЛАСНИКІВ НА ДОМЕННЕ ІМ’Я ТА ТОРГОВЕЛЬНИХ МАРОК
COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF WAYS TO PROTECT THE RIGHTS OF DOMAIN NAME OWNERS AND TRADEMARKS

Summary/Abstract: In this article, the author conducts a comparative analysis of international and Ukrainian legislation in the field of regulation of rights and obligations of trademark owners and domain names, protection mechanisms and their legislative consolidation. The imperfection of the legislative enshrinement of the domain name concept, the consequences of the lack of legal regulation by the state of the legal status of persons who have the right of ownership of the domain name, the lack of legal consolidation of mechanisms for acquiring and terminating domain name ownership and the legal consolidation of trademark and domain name. The differences between the current methods of protection of the right to a domain name in Ukraine and at the international level were revealed, and the prescriptions of the rules governing and resolving domain disputes in international and Ukrainian legal practice were compared. Based on the analyzed legislation, rules and scientific materials, ways to improve the legal status of domain name owners in Ukraine are proposed, including the separation of the domain name as a separate object of intellectual property rights, with typical for intellectual property rights guarantees for protection and enforcement on the domain name on the part of the state, development of the uniform mechanism regulated by the state of registration and acquisition of the property rights to the domain name and separation of legal ways and means of protection of the right to the domain name.

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