Author: Admin BorderMeasures

On May 24, 2011, the Commission adopted a new Strategy on IPR to boost creativity and innovation. The strategy covers a number of initiatives the Commission intends to take between now and 2012 in many fields, including patents, trade marks, geographical indications, enforcement of intellectual property, enforcement by customs, copyright licensing and digital libraries. The Commission’s […]

The Instituto Nacional da Propriedade Industrial reports that Portugal has recently launched a new portal on anti-counterfeiting with online complaint. This Portal is bilingual (Portuguese and English) and provides general information and statistics on counterfeiting, ways of legal protection and contains useful information.

The report and recommendations on Injunctions (Articles 9 and 11 of the Enforcement Directive 2004/48/EC) issued by the Legal Sub-Group of the EU Observatory on Counterfeiting and Piracy have been released on the Observatory’s web page.

In his non-binding opinion the Advocate General advised the Court that the Border Measures Regulation does not contain a ‘production fiction’ and that customs may seize fakes in transit if there are sufficient grounds for suspecting that they are counterfeit goods. The opinion of Advocate General Cruz Villalon in joined Cases C-446/09 Koninklijke Philips Electonics […]

In Portugal Law No. 46/2011, establishing the intellectual property Court and amending the Law on the organization and functioning of the Courts and the Industrial Property Code has been published. The Portuguese government announced that a specialized Court with regard to intellectual property would be created and, in March 2011, the protocol on the establishment […]

No more official fee for customs applications for action in Macedonia. The Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Macedonia adopted a decision to waive the official fee for customs watch applications. This decision enters into force on 28 June 2011. Up to now, the official fee for a customs watch application was EUR 100 […]