The Legal Status of a Consumer under Czech Law in an Online Purchase of a Fake Product

Pavla Tloušťová

In: ADAMOVÁ, Z. (ed.) Nové technológie, internet a duševné vlastníctvo 6: Označovanie produktov. Trnava: Typi Universitatis Tyrnaviensis, spoločné pracovisko Trnavskej univerzity v Trnave a VEDY, vydavateľstva Slovenskej akadémie vied, 2024, pp. 29-40. ISBN 978-80-568-0709-5.

Summary: Number of fake products offered and sold at internet increases every year. The paper analyses an online purchase of a fake product by a consumer, the respective consumer’s rights and legal steps to be taken against a seller of a fake product under Czech law. Generally, fakes can be offered and sold at internet as a business or as a private deal. Sale of a fake at internet under a business activity legally entitles a consumer to withdraw from a purchase agreement within 14 days from a delivery of the purchased fake product to the consumer as a buyer. Alternatively, the consumer can claim a defective quality of the purchased product. On the other hand, such a legal procedure does not apply if a fake product is sold online privately by a natural person. Except a purchase of fake cigarettes a consumer is not liable for an online purchase of any other fake product under Czech law.

URL: http://ntidv.iuridica.truni.sk/archive/ntidv-6/NTIDV-6-Tloustova-Pavla.pdf

Bibliographic Citation

TLOUŠŤOVÁ, P. Postavení spotřebitele v českém právu při nákupu padělků na internetu. In: ADAMOVÁ, Z. (ed.) Nové technológie, internet a duševné vlastníctvo 6: Označovanie produktov. Trnava: Typi Universitatis Tyrnaviensis, spoločné pracovisko Trnavskej univerzity v Trnave a VEDY, vydavateľstva Slovenskej akadémie vied, 2024, pp. 29-40. ISBN 978-80-568-0709-5.