On Wednesday 13 April, the European Commission presented for the first time a draft regulation with the aim of protecting the intellectual property of craft and industrial products in the same way as agricultural products.
The aim of this proposal, which was foreseen in the proposed November 2020 IP Action Plan (see EUROPE B12609A11), is both economic and social, according to European Commission Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager and Commissioner for the Internal Market Thierry...