Product Piracy Act

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The Product Piracy Act refers to laws to combat product piracy in Germany and Austria.

Germany

The law on strengthening the protection of intellectual property and combating product piracy of March 7, 1990 (official abbreviation: PrPG; published in Federal Law Gazette I of March 13, 1990, p. 422) should regulate the prosecution and punishment of violations of property rights in Improve the area of ​​intellectual property and, in addition, build on an improvement of the legal instruments as a whole, create the prerequisites for a quick and effective fight against the planned, targeted and mass violations of property rights (so-called product piracy). To this end, the law mainly brought about a tightening of the criminal sanction options, the expansion of the destruction and confiscation options and the creation of a special right to information. The possibility of border seizure by the customs authorities was also introduced. On the basis of European law, the EU Product Piracy Regulation (Council Regulation (EC) No. 1383/2003) and Directive 2004/48 / EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of April 29, 2004 on the enforcement of intellectual property rights ( OJ EU No. L 195 p. 16) as well as the following law to improve the enforcement of intellectual property rights of July 7, 2008 (Federal Law Gazette I p. 1191 ff of July 11, 2008) significantly expand the options for enforcement and sanctions .

Austria

The Product Piracy Act 2004 (PPG 2004) regulates the action of the customs authorities against product piracy in Austria . This law is the Austrian implementation of the European product piracy regulations. It regulates the penalties for importing black copies into the EU.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Justification of the law, printed in Blatt für Patent-, Muster undzeichenwesen 1990, 173
  2. ^ Product piracy law in the legal information system of the federal government
  3. ↑ REGULATION (EU) No. 608/2013 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 12 June 2013 (PDF) on the enforcement of intellectual property rights by the customs authorities and on the repeal of Regulation (EC) No. 1383/2003 of the Council
  4. ↑ IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No. 1352/2013 OF THE COMMISSION of 4 December 2013 (PDF) establishing the provisions foreseen in Regulation (EU) No. 608/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the enforcement of intellectual property rights by the customs authorities Forms