The study of counterfeiting and falsification of medicinal products, from a legal perspective, is a relatively new area in the EU. Specific regulations that focus on falsification of medicines came as recently as 2011. Therefore, this discipline is also new for research. There are two primary...

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery; that is, unless the imitation is of a product produced by a multi billion-dollar industry. Then, imitation has the potential to involve intellectual property litigation. For the pharmaceutical industry, the majority of intellectual property litigation...

1 Introduction -- 2 The complexity of the counterfeiting and piracy phenomena: a 1980-2015 literature review -- 3 Research methodology -- 4 Figures and trends in the academic research on counterfeiting and piracy -- 5 Content analysis and categorization: towards a systematization of the...