How to protect your IP rights at trade fairs
01 March 2009
Managing Intellectual Property
Organisers estimate that up to 9% of goods presented at German trade fairs infringe IP rights. Bernd Rupprecht explains how IP owners can tackle and deter the threat
Counterfeiters and plagiarists attend trade fairs to look for new exhibits that they may counterfeit. In recent years, the counterfeiters themselves have been increasingly presenting their counterfeited products and copies at trade fairs. German trade fair organisers estimate that between 5% and 9% of the goods presented at trade fairs infringe IP rights. Therefore, counterfeited products and plagiarism at trade fairs has been identified as a major problem by rights owners and state authorities such as Customs officials and politicians in recent years....
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