News and events

25.11.2025: APM Press Release High risks from counterfeit goods on Black Friday. more

01.10.2025: EU IP ENforcement Statistics EU Commission and EUIPO publish statistics on the enforcement of intellectual property rights at the EU’s external borders and in the internal market for the year 2024. more

05.06.2025: APM Press Release World Anti-Counterfeiting day 2025 – The fight against product and brand piracy is a task for society as a whole. more

04.06.2025: German Customs Statistics for 2024 Customs has published its annual balance sheet for 2024: in a total of almost 17,000 seizures, more than 5 million counterfeits worth around 417 million euros were withdrawn from circulation. more

22.05.2025: Counterfeit and Piracy Watch List The EU Commission has published its newest edition of the Counterfeit and Piracy Watch List.

06.05.2025: New Study: Mapping Global Trade in Fakes 2025 The OECD and the EUIPO have published the latest edition of their study on global trade in counterfeits. According to the study, trade in counterfeit products accounted for around 2.3% of global trade in 2021, which corresponds to a trade volume of around USD 467 billion. more

24.04.2025: APM Press Release Intellectual Property Day: There is a need for further action. more

13.11.2024: EU Customs Statistics 2023 The EU Commission’s Directorate-General for Taxation and Customs Union (DG TAXUD) and the EUIPO have published the EU customs statistics for 2023: More than 152 million counterfeit products worth around 3.4 billion euros were seized at the EU’s external borders and in the internal market – 77 and 68 percent more respectively than in 2022.  More

18.-22-11-2024: APM Travelling Exhibition on tour The APM Travelling Exhibition will be shown from 18. -22. November 2024 at FOM Hochschulzentrum Hamburg. More

03.-08.2024: APM Travelling Exhibition on tour The APM Travelling Exhibition will be shown from 03. -08. June 2024 at Weserpark in Bremen. More

03.05.2024: German Customs Statistic for 2023 German Customs publish statistics for the year 2023: more than 20.000 seizures and more than 3,3 million counterfeits valued at approx. 200 million Euro confiscated. Statistic 2023

26.04.2024: New Campaign #EchtFake Together with the German Brands Association (Markenverband), the German E-Commerce and Mail Order Business Association (bevh), the digital association Bitkom and the online retailer Amazon, APM is running a new campaign to educate young consumers in particular about the risks and side effects of counterfeit products: echt-fake.de and on Instagram: echt.fake.offiziell

16.01.2024: New Study by EUIPO The European Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) has investigated the economic impact of counterfeit clothing, cosmetics and toys in the EU. The loss of sales is in the billions. more

23.11.2023: EU Customs Statistics The European Commission`s Directorate-General for Taxation and Customs Union (DG TAXUD) and the EUIPO have published their statistics on the enforcement of intellectual property rights at the EU`s external borders and in the EU internal market for the year 2022 more

21.11.2023: APM Press Release High season for counterfeiters – Criminals unfortunately do good business on Black Friday and Cyber Monday more

02. – 10.10.2023: The APM travelling exhibition is going to be shown from 2nd until 10th October 2023 at the  HEROLD-CENTER in Norderstedt, Berliner Allee 40B. more

12.06.2023: APM Press Release New study on the occasion of Wolrd Anti-Counterfeiting Day: Uncertainty about counterfeit products among European consumers is high more

23.05.2023: APM Press Release German customs statistics for 2022: Counterfeit products are widely distributed online more

26.04.2023: World IP Day Women still register significantly fewer intellectual property rights than men. World Intellectual Property Day focuses on the innovations and ingenuity of women inventors, creators and entrepreneurs around the world more

27.02. – 04.03.2023: The APM traveling exhibition is going on tour again. From 27 February to 04 March it can be seen at the LÖHR CENTER Koblenz, Hohenfelder Str. 22. more

27.10.2022: The Digital Services Act was published today in the Official Journal of the European Union, meaning it will come into force in 20 days and will largely apply from February 27th 2024. more

11.10.2022: The European Intellectual Property Office and the European Patent Office have published a new edition of their study on the relationship between the intensity of IP rights use and the economic success. more

31.05.2022: VDMA publishes new study on product piracy in mechanical and plant engineering: More than 70% of companies still affected more

02.05.2022: German Customs publishes statistics for the year 2021

March 2022: EUIPO and OECD publish new study on trade in dangerous counterfeits that pose a risk to safety, health and the environment. more

11.03.2022: As part of the EUIPO study published in May on the economic impact of the COVID-19 crisis on IPR-intensive industries, EUIPO is now publishing an update “Economic performance of IPR indicators: December 2021 update” with data for the full year 2021.

07.03.2022: Joint study by EUIPO and Europol reveals that during the pandemic, trade in counterfeit and pirated goods increased more

17.02.2022: Office of the United States Trade Representative releases its “2021 Review of Notorious Markets for Counterfeiting and Piracy“

17.02.2022: EUIPO publishes new case law overview on infringement and eforcement of intellectual property rights more