EU Proposal for a New Border Measures Regulation Released Today

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 press release can be downloaded here.

The provisional version of the new IP Strategy is available here.

As part of the new Strategy, the Commission also published today (May 25, 2011) a proposal for a new Border Measures Regulation, which is due to replace Regulation (EC) 1383/2003.

It also published a proposal for a new Regulation entrusting the OHIM with certain tasks related to the protection of intellectual property rights, including the assembling of public and private sector representatives as a European Observatory on Counterfeiting and Piracy.

The Impact assessment and Summary of Impact Assessment regarding the Observatory can be found here.

Detailed information regarding the Observatory an be found here.

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