Philippines out of European Union's priority watch list on counterfeiting

The European Union delists the Philippines from its priority watch list on counterfeiting and piracy, citing 'very few complaints received from stakeholders.'

FAKE GOODS. The Bureau of Customs turns over an estimated P58 million worth of fake goods to the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines for destruction at Camp Crame on October 18, 2019. File photo from BOC

IPOPHL credits this feat to"extensive and sustained efforts to keep counterfeiting and piracy at bay."But IPOPHL responded to observations in the same European Commission report saying that the intellectual property situation in the country"has not improved over the last years." IPOPHL disputed these findings, saying the first 3 joint studies"used a single set of data" and the data that were used"even dates back to 2011-2013."

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