SECRET ANTI-COUNTERFEITING INTERNATIONAL DEAL RELEASED
April 1st, 2010
BY KEITH NUTHALL
MANUFACTURERS protecting high-value brands will be scouring the details of a draft Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) released this month (April) after two years of secret negotiations. What provisions will help international business? Keith Nuthall reports.
THE FACT that negotiations to forge a new international anti-counterfeiting deal have been confidential has not stopped critics claiming that the resulting agreement would be ineffective or even unworkable. But the fact remains that this ACTA is a draft treaty with significant legal ...
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