Brussels, 04/02/2011 (Agence Europe) - Member states' courts cannot ignore the temporary import or transit status of counterfeit goods seized by customs authorities and cannot, therefore, have recourse to the “production fiction”, whereby they are considered to have been produced in the member state in order to allow the national court, on the basis of national law, to rule on whether the goods infringe intellectual property law. However, customs authorities may seize “external...