Caution. Counterfeits endanger your health and safety! Press release as PDF Berlin, March 17, 2022: World Consumer Day on March 15 is one of those days that often passes us by unnoticed. In doing so, unlike many other days of action, it addresses an issue that affects every one of us without exception. A 2020 […]
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Hope in the fight against counterfeit products? Press release as PDF Berlin, May 2, 2022: In view of the 5.8 percent of all EU imports that are counterfeits according to calculations by the OECD and the EUIPO, customs authorities represent an indispensable protective wall in the fight against product and brand piracy. The General Directorate
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New study on World Anti-Counterfeiting Day: Young people often deliberately buy counterfeits Press release as PDF Berlin, June 8, 2022: Today is World Anti-Counterfeiting Day. Volker Bartels, Chairman of Aktionskreis gegen Produkt- und Markenpiraterie, comments: “Adequate protection of intellectual property is necessary for innovation and investment in the quality of a company’s own branded products.
Digital Services Act should help fight counterfeiting, loopholes remain Press release as PDF Berlin, July 5, 2022 The Internet is now the main distribution channel for counterfeit products. Three out of four counterfeit goods found by customs come from postal traffic – mostly goods from online trade. Without a physical product of whose quality one
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March 2022: EUIPO and OECD publish new study on trade in dangerous counterfeits associated with risks to safety, health and the environment. more
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03/11/2022: EUIPO publishes an update on the economic impact of the COVID-19 crisis on IP-intensive industries, with data for the full year 2021 more
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