PIRACY AND COUNTERFEITING
February 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed wide-ranging reforms to the European Union's (EU) anti-counterfeiting and piracy legislation, which would toughen national laws against this problem across the continent.If it is accepted by the EU Council of Ministers, this proposed directive on intellectual property rights would require all Member States to allow injunctions halting the sale of counterfeit goods, precautionary seizures of suspected offenders' bank accounts, give evidence-gathering powers to judicial authorities and force offenders to pay ...
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