The European Union appears to be preparing for adoption of the “gold standard” of enforcement, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), as intellectual property law expert Annette Kur from the Max Planck Institute of Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law said it is now called.

At a conference of the Swedish EU Presidency on “Enforcement of Intellectual Property with a Special Focus on Trademarks and Patents” on 15-16 December in Stockholm, representatives from EU bodies, member states and industry supported a quick enforcement of ACTA, according to participants. [...]

While the Swedish EU presidency had favoured greater transparency with regard to the ACTA, discussions on this are still ongoing, according to Magnus Fridh, special adviser at the Division for Intellectual Property and Transport Law Ministry of Justice in Sweden. Fridh in reply to a question from Intellectual Property Watch rejected the notion that there was a clear timetable. But he confirmed that a representative from the Directorate General Justice, Freedom and Civil Rights announced that a new draft for IPRED 2 would be tabled in May or June.

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