Olympism with respect to the Intellectual Property law Intellectual property is a branch of law affecting, with various intensity, a lot of fields of human life and, together with technical development and globalisation of human life, is becoming more and more topical, which, vice versa, implicates an intensive development of the branch of law itself. Olympism is a traditional concept evoking sports ideas, profound experience of performance based on physical and mental preparedness and capacity, emotions and in a way also a life philosophy and intellectual values, but also, more and more, a significant economic factor. This thesis is based on a strong respect to both of these concepts, namely to the intellectual property and to the branch of law studying this field, analysing and developing it, and to the Olympism and its persisting undisputable sense and effect, and on the conviction about coherence of these notions both in terms of law and in terms of ordinary human life. The aims of this thesis is to set up a basic outline and to determine conceptual features of each of these both institutes especially, and, after that, to present basic forms and methods of their coherence. In this connection it was also necessary to examine the legal protection of both of these institutes, both at the national..
