Brussels, 11/12/2008 (Agence Europe) - UNIFAB, the French group of manufacturers for international protection of intellectual property rights, has published five criteria for the proper functioning of the European Counterfeiting Observatory, which the September 2008 Competitiveness Council decided to set up (see Europe 9749 and 9742).
The criteria recommended by UNIFAB are: 1) that it holds its first meeting in the first half of 2009 (rather than in 2010 as the Commission is expected to...