Customs Detention: A cost-effective method of enforcing intellectual property in Europe
April 2009
When it comes to intellectual property rights such as patents, trade marks and copyright, the economic downturn can only mean one thing – cheaper goods flooding the market, many of them infringements of IP rights. Fortunately, Europe offers a powerful enforcement tool for rights holders, in the form of Customs detention. This provides a method of blocking goods at the border without paying a fee, without providing evidence of infringement and without prior judicial process. It is the ideal enforcement tool for the recession.
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