Anti-Counterfeiting

Cape Verde hosted the Seminar "Smuggling and falsification of products as crimes preventing money laundering and financing of terrorism".

At this event, that brought together a wide range of local and international representatives from Intellectual Property community, Diana Pereira had the opportunity to share Inventa International's experience in this area, based on case studies that sparked debate among the participants.

On the 22nd and 23rd October Cape Town received the 2019 International Law Enforcement Intellectual Property Crime Conference.

This event was co-hosted by INTERPOL and the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation, South African Police Service, in partnership with (UL) Underwriters Laboratories and the International AntiCounterfeiting Coalition (IACC).

ANJAP’s Commission for Intellectual Property and New Technologies organized the Conference 'The New CPI 2018', which took place in the Judicial Police auditorium in Lisbon.

This initiative had the purpose to provide trainee’s and young lawyers with a better knowledge of the new Portuguese Industrial Property Code, that came into force in July this year.

Vítor Palmela Fidalgo was one of the speakers at this Conference, where he spoke about some specifics concerning the new legal frame for Trademarks.

Counterfeit products are everywhere nowadays, filing the markets with twin scourges,  often very similar, or even fairly identical to the originals, with almost certainly lower quality but much cheaper, which makes them very understandably more attractive for consumers that have no means to purchase the real deal – the first generation goods.

Kenya has given a major step concerning anti-counterfeiting by approving a Customs Recordal Application system. This procedure will be made possible by an amendment to the Kenyan Anti-Counterfeiting Act No. 13 of 2008.

Past January 31st, a letter was sent to the European Union Commission President Jean Claude Juncker by big companies such as Apple, Adidas, Bayer, Channel, Hero, Lego, L’oréal, Moët Hennessy, Nike, Philips or Coca Cola, amongst others, with a call for action to modernize the Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive (IPRED).