ECJ RULING UNDERMINES PROPOSED ANTI-COUNTERFEITING LAW
October 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A PROPOSED European Union (EU) directive aimed at protecting food businesses from counterfeit brands has been undermined by a European Court of Justice (ECJ). Earlier this year, the European Parliament approved in principle a directive on 'criminal measures aimed at ensuring the enforcement of intellectual property rights'. It tells member states to impose maximum penalties of at least Euro 300,000 in fines and/or four years' imprisonment regarding serious counterfeiting crimes committed by organised crime, such as industrial scale piracy, as ...
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