INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
January 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed reforms to the European Union's (EU) intellectual property rights regime, which would force Member States to incorporate best practice into their regulations against counterfeiting and piracy. Its proposed directive for instance would require all EU governments to provide for injunctions halting the sale of counterfeit or pirate goods, undertake precautionary seizures of suspected offenders' bank accounts, grant evidence-gathering powers for judicial authorities and adopt powers to force offenders to pay ...
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