EUROPEAN UNION DEVELOPS COUNTERFEITING DATABASE TO FIGHT BLACK MARKET TOBACCO COPIES
May 1st, 2018
AN UPCOMING European Union (EU) ‘Counterfeit and Piracy Watch-List’, being developed by the European Commission to identify physical and digital marketplaces outside the EU where counterfeit tobacco and other consumer product are traded widely.
Intellectual property abuse is a key concern to the EU tobacco sector. Cigarettes were the top category of counterfeit articles detained (24% of the total) in a ‘Report on EU Customs Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights: Results at the EU Border 2016’. See ...
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