The eighth issue of the Newsletter of the EU Observatory on Infringements of Intellectual Property Rights has been published

Let us inform you that the European Observatory on Infringements of Intellectual Property Rights (hereinafter: the EU Observatory) active at the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM) has published the eighth issue of its newsletter “The Observatory Newsletter” (December, 2015).

This issue of the newsletter mentions the year of 2015 to be marked by studies on negative effects of counterfeiting published by OHIM, emphasising the importance of such studies and the data shown, announcing the same trend of publishing the studies in 2016 as well.

Furthermore, there is the news published in the newsletter about France, Croatia, Greece, Latvia and Finland having started delivering data in the last three months on the goods detained on markets inside their borders into the database of ACIST (Anti-Counterfeiting Intelligence Support Tool), so that there are 15 EU Member States providing for such data now. ACIST is a database on the EU level collecting statistical data on counterfeit and pirated goods that have been detained at borders of all the EU Member States, providing also for information on the goods detained inside national markets of the Member States.

The report from the fourth Plenary Meeting of the EU Observatory held in October 2015 as well as from other expert-education activities have been published in the newsletter and the meetings announced to be held in the forthcoming period.

The newsletter deals with other topics as well in relation to the enforcement of intellectual property rights.

The newsletter is available at the following link.

Datum novosti: 21.12.2015.