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The sale of counterfeit drugs has grown by more than 90% over a period of 5 years, currently projecting above the 75,000 million dollars. The WHO has estimated that of the total global market for drugs, the percentage of counterfeit products is higher than 10%. These drugs may include contaminated materials, an incorrect active ingredient or the incorrect dosage or not contain an active ingredient at all. This situation may be present for example in products for headaches to products for cardiovascular treatments and organ implants. Their commercialization has caused and is causing many human losses and deterioration in the quality of life of patients. It is very clear that the forger wants the consumer’s money, not his health. This ...
For counterfeiters, the Internet has become a versatile tool for developing illicit business of spurious products. The constant evolution of technology and modalities for online shopping, represent an ongoing challenge for trademark owners against the ease with which you can access forgery. Through the web, counterfeiters have access to the whole world and do not need to be located in one or more physical points to lead forgery to the consumer. They can also use photographs and advertising of lawful products to promote counterfeit goods, delivered to the consumer when it has made a purchase. In turn, consumers (of all sizes, from the individual, to the retail chains) can access via the Internet various sources and acquire, consciously or unconsciously, ...
The garment industry, watches and accessories, is a segment that works with great effort to make their products stand out in a highly competitive market. Positioning a brand in the mind of consumers and the general public, through multimillion investments through quality and advertising, among other means, becomes vulnerable due to counterfeiting. Unfortunately, there is a segment of consumers who consciously produces demand for spurious goods, which encourages unscrupulous people to reproduce brands and the products they protect, particularly brands that the public values and in many cases, those that have become aspirational brands. Counterfeiting not only shifts the sale of the legal product, thereby generating significant damage to companies, local economies and the market in general, but seriously damages ...
Counterfeiting is an international criminal practice; fake products exceed the physical boundaries between countries and have become an industry in which organized crime is involved. Counterfeiting threatens the security and economy of the countries and world trade; threatens health, physical integrity and lives of people worldwide. Hence the States, international organizations (such as WIPO, WTO and WCO), INTERPOL and rights holders and consumers’ associations, have to unite work and resources to combat it. Many efforts at bilateral, regional or multinational level result in agreements to be incorporated and implemented by the countries participating in them; these agreements also influence other aspects of bilateral, regional and multilateral relations. It is important, therefore, for an intellectual property attorney, to know these instruments ...
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The global market of goods is being invaded by counterfeit products. To combat this practice, owners of trademark rights and public forces are making great efforts, particularly in research on sources and generating evidence to bring cases to justice. The lawyer needs in his practice to know about these processes of generation of evidence and foremost, advise him so that he can meet the legal requirements concerning evidence. Panelists will present research techniques regarding counterfeit products and the gathering of evidence for use in court cases. Room BC
On many occasions, the efforts of trademark owners or public forces to demonstrate counterfeiting, ends up being rejected or questioned by the courts. The processes of generating evidence and expert reports are often required with formal requirements that make nugatory the probative effort; in others, the procedural requirements make it very burdensome, all this resulting in a benefit for the counterfeiter. Panelists will present challenges and constraints that have confronted in their experience or identified in their practice before courts when it comes to support expert testimony or evidence. Room BC
As in the case of medicinal products, consumers are in a highly vulnerable position before counterfeit consumer products. In this product segment, are, among others, the products we use for our personal hygiene, drinks and food. Consuming a counterfeit product of this segment can have a direct impact on our physical integrity, our health and our lives. These fakes can easily reach wholesale and retail business and be in convenience stores; they can be treats and beverages available to children; they can be deodorants and tooth pastes. Panelists will share case studies and experiences on the practices of counterfeiters about consumer products and how companies seek to incorporate aspects that make it difficult to counterfeit the product or packaging; the ...
Counterfeiters as well as unfair competitors, seek to parasitically profit of the efforts of others. Thus, on the Internet, counterfeiters and unfair traders have implemented occupying and registering domains, in some cases identical and in others very similar, so that consumers, when doing online search, reach their sites, diverting the consumer’s initial interest or providing fake products. The domain name system is independent of the trademark system in each country, as well as globally. This has required significant efforts on the initiative of the owners of trademarks and other intellectual property rights with the Internet Society, ICANN and international organizations, including the WIPO. This approach resulted in an objective cooperation in order to have mechanisms to reverse the use of ...