How to deal with Customs in Asia
06 September 2010
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Justin Kung and Peter Ollier, Hong Kong
Preparation, promotion and patience are three key requirements when working with Customs, according to speakers at the Asia-Pacific IP Forum
The opening session of the Forum dealt with how to work with Customs when managing IP investigation and a panel on day two looked at how IP owners can work with Customs authorities in India.
"A lot of law enforcement units in the region are incompletely trained to deal with anti-counterfeiting and IP protection issues, both funding and manpower are limited," said Bob Youill, vice president of brand protection services for FTI-International Risk.
Youill said that IP owners first needed to help themselves by making sure that their rights were registered in the countries where they wanted to enforce them.
He said it was crucial that IP owners then developed a specific plan of action, had in-house expertise and a specific point of contact for Customs authorities to deal with.
"Thirty percent of the time, people we work with do not have in-house expertise to identify the products that are...
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