statutory incident of ownership

statutory incident of ownership

The Commission will also bring forward a number of other measures set out in the Communication of December 2015 over the coming months, such as a stronger enforcement of intellectual property rights, including copyright. These amendments to the EU IPR law will, for instance, clarify the scope and application of provisional and precautionary measures and injunctions and clarify the rules for the calculation and allocation of damages.

The provisions of systems establishing intellectual property rights, and particularly of those established by the quality scheme for designations of origin and geographical indications or those established under trade mark law, should not be affected by the reservation of names and the establishment of indications and symbols pursuant to the quality schemes for traditional specialities guaranteed and for optional quality terms.

whereas in 2010, over 103 million items of goods, valued in total to EUR 1,11 billion, were seized at the EU’s external borders on suspicion of infringing intellectual property rights (IPR); whereas China is the country of origin for 85 % of these goods; whereas an important feature of intellectual property protection is the correct enforcement of existing laws and international commitments, including statutes on penalties; whereas such goods are frequently produced in facilities that also produce legitimately labelled goods, and are often produced in disregard of both labour law and health and safety requirements and thus pose a dang ...[+++]er to consumers and, in the case of chemicals, to the wider environment;

It is therefore necessary to clarify the absolute grounds for refusal concerning designations of origin and geographical indications and to ensure full consistency with relevant Union legislation providing for protection of those intellectual property titles.