By now infringement of copyright and trademarks takes place on a considerable scale. In Denmark, a new bill will tighten the rules for infringement of intellectual property rights, etc. This bill involves infringement of copyrights, patterns, trademarks, patents, utility models and counterfeit products.
Some of the most vulnerable industries are as follows, when it comes to infringement of copyright and trademarks:
- the software industry,
- the audio-visual industry,
- the recording industry,
- the textile industry,
- the perfumery industry,
- the watchmaking industry,
- the pharmaceutical industry,
- the toy industry
- and the motor industry.
In its Green Paper on combating counterfeiting and piracy in the Single Market, the EU Commission assessed that counterfeiting and piracy amount to approx. 5 to 7 per cent of world trade.
