Intellectual property enforcement. A commentary on the anti-counterfeiting trade agreement (ACTA)

This important book is the first detailed analytical treatment of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) and its impact on intellectual property enforcement. The ACTA had been formulated to deal with the burgeoning growth in the trade in counterfeit and pirate products which was estimated to have increased ten-fold since the promulgation of the TRIPS Agreement in 1994.

The book clarifies how the ACTA supplements the enforcement provisions of the TRIPS Agreement, namely by: expanding the reach of border protection to infringing goods in transit; providing greater detail of the implementation of civil enforcement and; providing for the confiscation of the proceeds of intellectual property crimes. As the book illustrates, a significant additional innovation is the introduction of provisions dealing with enforcement of intellectual property rights in the digital environment.

This book will strongly appeal to intellectual property rights policymakers, legal practitioners, academics and students.

Contents
Preface
1. Impacts of Counterfeiting and Piracy
2. Negotiating ACTA
3. Preamble
4. Initial Provisions and Definitions
5. Legal Framework
6. Civil Enforcement
7. Border Measures
8. Criminal Enforcement
9. Confiscation
10. Enforcement in the Digital Environment
11. Enforcement Practices
12. International Cooperation
13. Institutional Arrangements
14. Final Provisions Appendix: Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
Index