Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> wrote: [...] > I.e. he was saying that nobody was needed to "make it criminal" - that > the simple grant of a trademark would be sufficient to do that. > > I can't believe he's right but I think that's what he said. [...]
If I hadn't been seeing this steadily deteriorate, I probably wouldn't believe it either. Here's TRIPS Article 61: http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/trips_e/t_agm4_e.htm#5 "Members shall provide for criminal procedures and penalties to be applied at least in cases of wilful trademark counterfeiting or copyright piracy on a commercial scale. Remedies available shall include imprisonment and/or monetary fines [...]" and here's the EU's IPR Enforcement Directive requiring implementation: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/file.jsp?id=230622 "criminal sanctions also constitute, in appropriate cases, a means of ensuring the enforcement of intellectual property rights" and the UK's Trade Marks Act 1994 as revised 1996 gold-plates it. http://www.statutelaw.gov.uk/content.aspx?LegType=All+Legislation&title=trade+marks+act&Year=1994&searchEnacted=0&extentMatchOnly=0&confersPower=0&blanketAmendment=0&sortAlpha=0&TYPE=QS&PageNumber=1&NavFrom=0&parentActiveTextDocId=1868072&ActiveTextDocId=1868194&filesize=6604 Please tell me if I'm wrong about wilful trademark infringement. Thanks, -- MJ Ray (slef) Webmaster for hire, statistician and online shop builder for a small worker cooperative http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ (Notice http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html) tel:+44-844-4437-237 _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
