Intellectual Property Magazine
The tide is high
The Anti-Counterfeiting Group’s director general Phil Lewis says that in order to tackle the rising level of fakes, the IP community must adopt a cross-sector, cross-border and multi-agency approach
Phil Lewis - Anti-Counterfeiting Group
Last year, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the European Union Intellectual Property Office
(EUIPO) published updated figures on the scope and scale of intellectual property (IP) crime, which revealed that the world
trade in fake goods is now worth $509bn; representing 3% of world trade. More than this, almost 7% of products imported into
Europe are now counterfeit.