Spain Will Raise "An Anti-piracy Generation"

Rudy Gaines, our client services director attending the International AntiCounterfeitingCoalition’s spring conference sent us this pic from the keynote address given by Inigo Mendez de Vigo, Spain’s Minister of Education, Culture and Sport. Mendez de Vigo told the crowd Spain will raise “an anti-piracy generation” and reiterated his nation’s commitment to protecting intellectual property rights.

The WIPO And Fighting Global Design Knock-offs

By David Crowe

David Crowe

Many American companies depend on strong global sales of key products featuring innovative product design. Foreign knockoffs of these designs can be common and devastating to these companies, making the need for strong international legal protections obvious. A few weeks ago, this blog touched on an international registration system available to companies for efficiently protecting their brands in several jurisdictions across the globe. Additionally, a similar system for protecting a product’s industrial design (i.e. appearance), has recently become available for companies in the United States making it easier to obtain robust global design protection.

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