An EU perspective on ACTA

We are pleased to send you the article of Marlous Stal-Hilders, trademark attorney and partner of Nederlandsch Octrooibureau, in which she discusses the EU perspective on ACTA. The article was published in Managing Intellectual Property's anti-counterfeiting special.

Negotiations on a new Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) were launched back in 2007 with the aim of creating an international framework to better enforce intellectual property rights. The plan is not to do this by developing new IP rights but rather by seeking international standards on how to take measures against large-scale infringements of these rights. At this stage negotiations are still ongoing. The question is this: from a European perspective, why is this agreement required?

We hope you will enjoy reading the article. If you have any questions or feedback regarding this topic, you are most welcome to send us an email at publicrelations@octrooibureau.nl.

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Nederlandsch Octrooibureau