Walk down any main street in Shanghai, Paris or New York and you will see evidence of the counterfeit goods trade. Everyone has seen or heard of fake Prada bags or Omega watches. But how large is the counterfeit market? It appears that the same numbers have been quoted repeatedly in sources...

Concerns about counterfeiting and piracy are becoming increasingly widespread and have now taken on an international dimension. Higher standards of intellectual property protection are being set multilaterally and through the inclusion of intellectual property provisions in bilateral trade...

Die Volksrepublik China gilt neben Russland als Hauptakteur bei der Verletzung von geistigem Eigentum. Als Hauptprobleme werden die Nichteinhaltung internationaler Verträge, das Fehlen von rechtlichen Durchetzungsmöglichkeiten sowie die eingeschränkte Freiheit der Medien in der...