Auschwitz (source: Sme)
An American agent, a traitor, and an agent of foreign powers. These are just some of the epithets that MP Ľuboš Blaha has used to describe President Zuzana Čaputová. But as court rulings have shown, in doing so the MP infringed on the ‘personality rights of the president’.
IP: 10 largest law firms
HAVEL & PARTNERS
BRICHTA & PARTNERS
MATHISON legal
Bukovinský & Chlipala
Allen & Overy
PRK Partners
IKRÉNYI & REHÁK
act MPH advocates
TaylorWessing e/n/w/c
G. Lehnert
Ranking created based on the following criteria (values for 2022): number of IP deals with regard to reward law firm received for them (70% weight); sales revenues (10% weight); points for number of lawyers (20% weight). The ranking reflects also the proportion of each firm’s hours spent on this category.
The dispute was interesting from both a political and legal point of view. It fell under intellectual property law and, to a certain extent, it could also have influenced the pre-election fight in Slovakia. However, it was just one of a number of interesting legal cases involving some of the largest law firms in Slovakia in the intellectual property category.
Winner once again
In the ranking of the Largest Law Firms in the category of IP law, compiled by the Sme daily and The Slovak Spectator, last year’s winner, Havel & Partners, came top again.
Ten of the largest law firms in this category provided details for publication of one inspiring deal. Among those published, the most prominent was the already mentioned dispute between the president and Blaha. He persistently verbally attacked the head of state with defamatory and untrue statements.
The dispute went to court, where the president was represented by the law firm TaylorWessing e/n/w/c lawyers. In the end, the MP lost the dispute. The court ordered Blaha, through preliminary injunction, to refrain from publishing and spreading false or misleading statements.
