Antipiracy
The spectacular increase in copyright piracy, brand counterfeiting, and infringement of trademarks, patents, and other IP rights of late has had calamitous market repercussions and has forced companies to expend ever more resources on fighting this scourge by all legal means at their disposal.
The first preventive measure is to keep infringing merchandise from gaining entry to the territory of Spain through the EU's foreign borders. ELZABURU handles applications for both national and EU-wide Customs protection for IP rights, and our Firm was the first Spanish firm to file an application for EU-wide Customs protection.
Once goods have entered Spain, or are manufactured in Spain, active involvement by the police is called for. The special circumstances surrounding these activities mean that we need to coordinate rapid action by police units specializing in these types of criminal offences to arrange for raids and seizures of counterfeit goods.
We have designed anticounterfeiting programmes that can be scaled to the budgetary needs of each client to ensure a comprehensive and consistent approach to combating this activity.
ELZABURU's experienced anticounterfeiting team works in close cooperation with Customs, the police, prosecutors, and the courts and has extensive expertise in uncovering counterfeiting, gathering criminal evidence, and then bringing criminal proceedings with a view to obtaining convictions and damages.
The Firm has several criminal lawyers, experts in industrial and intellectual property, dedicated exclusively to combating fraud and piracy of our clients globally.
How we can help you?
- Customs measures against importation of counterfeit/pirated goods, both nationally in Spain and EU-wide.
- Market surveillance.
- Investigations into the import, manufacture, and distribution of counterfeit/pirated goods.
- Surveillance/investigations of Internet sales of counterfeit/pirated goods.
- Defending the right to dignity, privacy, and one's own likeness in criminal proceedings.
- Defending trade secrets in criminal proceedings.
- Filing complaints and liaising with the police and the courts to arrange and carry out raids.
- Intervening as a private prosecution or defence in criminal proceedings in counterfeiting/piracy matters.
- Negotiating out-of-court settlements.
- Designing customized anti-counterfeiting/anti-piracy programmes ad hoc.
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