Legal protection of the trademark under the order 06/03 between legislative texts and reality

Abstract

The trademark is considered one of the most important elements of industrial property, depending on the role it plays at the competitive level in the economic market, which necessitated the need to develop legal texts in order to regulate its use in accordance with the requirements of the law. the latter has the right to explain its protection from acts of aggression, and imitation is one of the most important forms of this abuse.
The nature of this act ranged between civil and penal nature, as the law decided for the owner of the infringed mark the right to resort to civil justice by means of an unfair competition lawsuit or resort to the penal judiciary, considering that counterfeiting is a punishable misdemeanour. Consumer audience who fall victim to the act of brand imitation.