Protection of Business Reputation

Business reputation can be affected in many different ways. Most commonly this is done through mass media. Sometimes it is done through advertisements that provide false information about competitors. Business reputation can be protected in court as well as outside of court. Business can request to override false statements, and it also has the right to publish its response in the same mass media that published the original discrediting statements.

False Discreditation

Business reputation can be affected in many different ways. Most commonly this is done through mass media. Sometimes it is done through advertisements that provide false information about competitor’s products. Such discreditation of company’s good name is unacceptable and is prosecuted by law. Patents, copyrights, non-disclosure clauses and various other legal measures are all used to protect information.

Correcting false statements

Business reputation can be defended both in court and outside of court. A business can request to correct false statements, and it also has the right to publish its response in the same mass media that published the original discrediting statements.

This can be done only through civil court proceedings. According to law only natural persons can incur criminal liability for such actions.

Means of correcting false statements

An experienced attorney will help to resolve disputes related to intellectual property, patents, and trademarks. Provide legal solutions, prepare and maintain license agreements and copyright agreements. Business reputation can be protected by filing a complaint with general court, arbitration, or administratively. Also, spreading information and advertisements that discredit company’s reputation is prosecuted by anti-monopoly authorities. Perpetrator will be required to provide counter-statements within indicated terms, in the same media as the original discrediting advertisement.

A lot of times business reputation cases may bring up facts that discredit not only the business but also its managers and founders. To avoid such complications it is best to build a strategy for dispute settlement in business reputation protection cases.

How working with us will benefit you:

– we place a response to discrediting statements in mass media;

– discrediting statements are to be recognized as false by court decision;

– counter discrediting statements in court;

– publish response in the same mass media as the original inappropriate statements;

– monetary reparation of damage or loss;

– control over execution of court decision.

Experienced attorneys provide qualified assistance in dispute settlement in business reputation protection cases. Attorneys will participate in collection and recording of necessary body of evidence. There is already a long-standing practice of using verified, functional and legal means of dispute settlement in this area. Unfortunately in Moldova, like in many other CIS countries, redress for the non-pecuniary damage is merely a symbolical notion. This is why most mass media publish information only with the idea of commercial profit, without considering potential compensation for damage that could be due as a result of company’s business reputation protection actions.