In 2009, EU Customs took action in 43,500 cases involving several million products suspected of being counterfeited or pirated at the external borders of the EU. This is according to the Commission’s annual report on EU Customs Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), which was published today. Cigarettes, clothing, and brand labels were among the [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Intellectual Property Rights'
News: Fight against fakes: Commission publishes Annual Report on EU Customs actions to enforce intellectual property rights
July 27th, 2010 No Comments
Tags: Counterfeiting · European Union · Intellectual Property Rights
News: International Anti-Counterfeiting Talks Hit Snags says EU
July 14th, 2010 No Comments
The European Union “will not swallow” U.S. hypocrisy when negotiating an anti-counterfeiting agreement, said the senior E.U. representative involved in the talks.
European Commissioner for Trade, Karel De Gucht, made the statement during a presentation to the European Parliament on Tuesday. He was updating members of the parliament (MEPs) on the state [...]
Tags: ACTA · Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) · European Union · illegal software · Intellectual Property Rights
NEWS: States Clash Over Anti-Counterfeiting Enforcement
June 11th, 2010 No Comments
Rich and developing countries clashed on Wednesday over controversial proposals to tighten up the enforcement of intellectual property (IP) rights.
ACTA would allow customs officers of signatory states to make searches if they believe counterfeit or pirated goods are being brought in, leading to seizures or criminal prosecution.
India, which argued that ACTA would go far beyond [...]
Tags: Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) · Intellectual Property Rights · Piracy
News: RIAA Asks Court To Close Down LimeWire
June 9th, 2010 No Comments
The music industry has asked a federal court in New York to order a shutdown of the LimeWire service, according to documents obtained by CNET.
Lawyers working for the Recording Industry Association of America, the trade group for the four top record companies, filed documents on Friday requesting that a U.S. District Court in Manhattan grant [...]
Tags: Copyright Infringement · Intellectual Property Rights · Limewire · Music Piracy · RIAA
News: Microsoft’s Ballmer Says China Piracy Is a Problem
May 25th, 2010 No Comments
May 25 (Bloomberg) — Microsoft Corp. is less optimistic about China as a market than India or Indonesia because of the country’s lack of progress in stamping out software piracy, Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer said.
“India is not perfect but the intellectual property protection in India is far, far better than [...]
Tags: china · Intellectual Property Rights · Microsoft · software piracy
News: In Shanghai, Hiding Bootlegs Before the World Visits
April 30th, 2010 No Comments
SHANGHAI — The latest mystery in Shanghai, complete with sliding bookshelves, secret passageways and contraband goods, is this: Why are all the popular DVDs and CDs missing from this city’s shops?
But it’s a mystery easily solved. In China, embarrassments are usually hidden from sight when the world comes visiting, and that is what has happened [...]
Tags: Counterfeit Goods · Illegal Dvds · Intellectual Property Rights · Motion Picture Association of America · Pirated Software · World Expo
News: Counterfeiters Put On ICE Following A Seizure Of More Than $1.4 million
April 29th, 2010 No Comments
MIAMI – More than $1.4 million in counterfeit goods being sold at W.K. International Corporation located at 4760 NW 165th Street in Miami was seized Tuesday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) special agents.
Among the items seized were 14,750 counterfeit professional adidas soccer team jerseys with an estimated MSRP of more than $1 million. [...]
Tags: counterfeit apparel · Intellectual Property Rights · Luxury Goods · US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · World Intellectual Property Rights Day
News: Google-China Flap Déjà Vu for Microsoft
April 2nd, 2010 No Comments
Hong Kong, China (CNN) — A fight between a technology titan and the world’s fastest-growing economy. Trade war tensions rising between Beijing and Washington, as U.S. legislators howl about unfair Chinese business practices and the Chinese media assail American arrogance.
No, it’s not the current battle between Google and China — but the fight between Microsoft [...]
Tags: china · Google · Intellectual Property Rights · Microsoft · Piracy
News: ICE Key to Doubling US Exports
March 16th, 2010 No Comments
President Barack Obama’s vow to double US exports over the next five years would create more work for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the primary federal agency charged with protecting US intellectual property rights, ICE chief John Morton told HSToday.us.
In a speech before the Export-Import Bank of the United States on March 11, Obama [...]
Tags: Department of Homeland Security · Intellectual Property Rights · Obama Administration · US Customs
