At Bird & Bird, he works as a junior associate in the Commercial and Intellectual Property Groups in Prague. Whilst he spent almost two years working in another recognised law firm focused on commercial, corporate and employment matters, Bird & Bird is his first full-time position after completing his degree, and he is in the process of gaining more practice experience. His goal has always been to work in an innovative international law firm regarded as the best in advising on intellectual property law matters, and Bird & Bird was simply his first choice. He believes a good lawyer should possess key knowledge of the client’s business, attention to detail, and good ethics. What he appreciates at Bird & Bird is the innovative and modern approach combined with the set of firm values, which he believe forms an environment where he will be able to fulfil his professional goals.
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Currently, there are two bills being discussed in the Czech Parliament. Under the first bill, which implements the European Electronic Communications Code (EECC) in the Czech Republic, the Czech Office for the Protection of Competition (Office) would be entitled to require providers of public (...)
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The Czech Supreme Court lodged a request for a preliminary ruling (Case C-57/21) on 1 February 2021 regarding evidence disclosure under the EU Damages Directive 2014/104/EU. In the proceedings before Czech courts, a privately-owned transportation company RegioJet a.s. sued the state-owned (...)
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Leniency programmes and settlement procedures are commonly used by the Czech Office for the Protection of Competition (“Office”). The leniency programme was used as a “soft law” by the Office since 2001 to promote discovery of unlawful horizontal agreements. As for the settlement procedure, it (...)
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The Czech Office for the Protection of Competition ("Office") published a press release (without publishing the full decisions yet) regarding the rejection of the appeal of the collecting society for music authors’ rights OSA - Ochranný svaz autorský pro práva k dílům hudebním, z.s. ("OSA"), and (...)
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Supreme Administrative Court decides on clearly disproportionate fines for unauthorized acquisition. In 2013, the company ARMEX Oil acquired an ownership interest in the company TRANSCARGO without notifying the Competition Protection Office ("Office") and awaiting its approval. Two years (...)
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The Czech Office for the Protection of Competition ("Office") published a press release on 16 July 2020 (without publishing the full decision yet) regarding a fine imposed for anti-competitive parking conditions for certain hybrid vehicles in paid parking zones in Prague. According to this (...)
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On 22 June 2020 the Czech Office for the Protection of Competition (Office) published a press release (without publishing the full decision yet) regarding fines imposed for concluding and executing a prohibited cartel agreement regarding train projects Carpathia, Sylvania, and New Carpathia. (...)
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Back in 2016 and 2017, two different groups of senators proposed that the Constitutional Court repeal the Czech Act No. 395/2009 Coll., on Significant Market Power ("Act"), or at least some parts of it. In general, the Act protects food suppliers from unfair practices by big retail chains. (...)
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Like many other public authorities, the Czech Office for the Protection of Competition (the Office) has adopted several measures related to the social and economic consequences caused by COVID-19. In order to minimize personal contact, the Office has limited public access to the Office’s (...)
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In a simplified procedure, the Office for the Protection of Competition authorised the merger of Heimstaden Bostad AB with RESIDOMO, s.r.o., RESIDOMO Services, s.r.o. and DomTherm, s.r.o. The Swedish group thus gains the opportunity to control the aforementioned companies exclusively. The (...)
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