EU - U.S. Summit in Vienna: EU and U.S. Step Up Joint Fight Against Counterfeiting.
"[...] US Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez, European Commission Vice President and Commissioner for Industry Gunter Verheugen and EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson will on Tuesday June 20 launch a joint EU-US action programme to tackle global intellectual property piracy. The programme was conceived in 2005 and will be endorsed by the EU-US Summit in Vienna on June 21. The joint strategy is an important reinforcement of the global fight against counterfeiting and intellectual property theft. It is the first EU-US joint enforcement programme of its kind. [...]"
Closer customs co-operation including joint border enforcement actions where EU-US customs officials will cooperate to tackle intellectual piracy.
Joint enforcement in third countries, including the creation of teams of EU and US diplomats in third country embassies specially tasked with data and intelligence sharing and joint surveillance responsibilities.
Strongly increased collaboration with the private sector, which has strongly advocated improved intellectual property protection as the key to EU competitiveness.
At least with regard to patents and utility models I can only hope that IP enforcement will not be turned into something new with massive shift towards involvement of covert forces, out-of-legality actions, and progressive replacement of civil law by criminal law as a basis of enforcement. See my earlier posting there. And, police-like powers should never be shared with private entities.
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Dipl.-Phys. Axel H Horns is Patentanwalt (German Patent Attorney),
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there. And, police-like powers should never be shared with private entities.
