Unfair competition

1. It is not allowed to carry out the unfair competition, which includes:

1.1. Actions that may cause the confusion as to business entities, goods or business activities of competitors, including:

- the illegal use by a business entity of a brand name, trademark (service mark), geographical indication which do not belong to it on the goods, their packaging, shop signs, when demonstrating exhibit items at exhibitions and trade fairs, in advertisement, print media, and other documentation, including introduction of the goods to the civil commerce with illegal use of intellectual property objects, means of individualization of the parties to civil transactions or their goods.

- the illegal copying of exterior of the goods of other business entities, except for cases where copying of the goods or its parts (units, components) is exclusively stipulated by their technical application.

- the introduction of goods of other business entities to the civil commerce with the use of own means of individualization of goods, except as otherwise provided for in an agreement concluded between business entities.

1.2 Actions taken while carrying out business activities, capable of discrediting a business entity, the goods or business activity of a competitor, i.a. as a result of dissemination of false, unreliable, inaccurate, corrupted information directly or through other persons, in any form and by any means, including the data which may contain information that injures business reputation of a business entity or its founder (participant, owner of the property) or an employee, and (or) may undermine the business entity’s credibility as a manufacturer of goods.

1.3. Actions taken while carrying out business activities, which may be misleading as to the manufacturer, nature, application properties, quality, method, place of manufacturing, applicability or quantity of goods of a competitor i.a. implemented by an improper comparison of the goods produced by a business entity with the goods of a competitor as well as dissemination, in any form and by any means, of the information containing false or inaccurate comparative features of the own goods and the goods of a competitor that may influence consumers’ freedom of choice when purchasing goods or entering into a transaction.

1.4 . Appeals by a business entity to other business entities, other actions or threat of an action, directly or through other persons, aimed at obstruction of competitor's business relationships, their disruption or termination, obstruction of a business activity of a competitor that acts on the given market or seeks to enter it, i.a. in order to enter into business relationships with its business partner;

1.5. Dissemination by a business entity, in any form and by any means, of false statements and information regarding its own product in order to conceal the product’s inconformity to its intended purpose or requirements in respect of quality, application and other characteristics.

1.6. Actions of a business entity, taken directly or through other persons, aimed at internal disorganization of competitor's business activities, i.a. providing the competitor’s employees with  various material and other benefits in order to induce them to neglect employment responsibilities or migrate to an employer which provides such benefits.

1.7 Actions of a business entity aimed at the creation of a situation on the market in which the business activities of a competitor that acts on this market or seeks to enter it will be unprofitable or will be carried out by a competitor under extremely disadvantageous conditions.

2. It is not allowed to carry out the unfair competition activities related to the acquisition and use of the exclusive rights to means of individualization of the parties to commercial transactions as well as goods.