INTA Comments on Protecting European Consumers and Trademark Owners from Counterfeit Goods – Goods in Transit and the Revision of the Community Trade Mark Regulation 207/2009 and of the Trade Mark Directive 2008/95/CE
From: INTA, AIM, ICC BASCAP, ECTA and Marques
To: Commissioner Michel Barnier, European Commission
March 7, 2013
INTA Position Paper on Strengthening Anticounterfeiting Laws and Procedures in Canada
From: INTA
To: The Honorable Christian Paradis, Minister of Industry Canada
Mr. John Knubley, Deputy Minister of Industry Canada
Mr. Paul Halucha, Director of General, Marketplace Framework Policy Branch in Industry Canada
Ms. Anne-Marie Monteith, Director of Copyright and Trade-mark Policy Directorate in Industry Canada
The Honorable Robert Douglas Nicholson, Minister of Justice and Deputy Attorney General of Canada
Mr. William F. Pentney, Deputy Minister of Justice
The Honorable Vic Toews, Minister of Public Safety Canada
Mr. Luc Portelance, President of Canadian Border Services Agency
February 14, 2013
INTA Comments on China's Draft Trademark Law
From: INTA
To: Standing Committee of the National People's Congress
January 25, 2013
INTA Comments on Myanmar's Draft Trademark Law
Cover Letter
From: INTA Executive Director Alan Drewsen
To: Deputy Minister of Ministry of Science and Technology Ko Ko Oo
January 8, 2013
INTA Submission on the Request for Public Comment Regarding Regulations Relating to Recordation and Enforcement of Trademarks and Copyrights
From: INTA Executive Director Alan Drewsen
To: Tracey Denning, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Office of Regulations and Rulings
December 20, 2012
Support of the Intellectual Property Section of Customs in the Ministry of Finance in Poland
From: Bartosz Krakowiak, Chair of the European Union Subcommittee of INTA's Anticounterfeiting Committee
To: Jan Vincent-Rostowski, Minister of Finance
December 20, 2012
INTA Comments to the Draft 2013 Work Programme for the EU Observatory on Infringements to Intellectual Property Rights
From: INTA President Gregg Marrazzo
To: President António Campinos, Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market
October 12, 2012
Comments on Procedures for Notifying and Acting on Illegal Content Hosted by Online Intermediaries for the EU E-commerce Directive
From: INTA
To: European Commission
August 30, 2012
Comments on the Revision of Thailand Trademark Law
From: INTA
To: Pajchima Tanasanti, Director General of the Department of Intellectual Property
August 17, 2012
INTA response to the consultation on the development of the Second U.S. Joint Strategic Plan for intellectual property enforcement
From: INTA
To: Victoria Espinel, U.S. Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator
August 10, 2012
Comments on amendments to the Macedonian Customs Law
From: INTA President Gregg Marrazzo
To: Vanco Kargov, Director of the Customs Office, and Mite Kostov, President of Coordinative Body for Intellectual Property
July 10, 2012
INTA comments on EU Observatory General Consultation of Stakeholders
From: INTA Executive Director Alan Drewsen
To: President António Campinos, Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market
July 6, 2012
INTA comments on interim rules on "Disclosure of Information for Certain IP Rights Enforced at the Border"
From: INTA
To: U.S. Customs & Border Protection
June 25, 2012
INTA comments on Nominet Consultation: Dealing with domain names used in connection with criminal activity
From: INTA Anticounterfeiting and Internet Committees
To: Nominet
Date: September 16, 2011
INTA letter in support of S.1228, the U.S. Combating Military Counterfeits Act
From: INTA Executive Director Alan Drewsen
To: Senator Sheldon Whitehouse
Date: July 27, 2011
INTA Response to U.S. Trade Representative's Request for Written Comments on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
From: INTA President Gerhard Bauer
To: U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk
Date: February 15, 2011
Supporting introduction of U.S. bill entitled “Combating Online Infringements and Counterfeits Act,” which would provide additional tools for the Department of Justice to prosecute websites designed to infringe copyrights or to sell counterfeit goods
From: INTA President Heather Steinmeyer
To: U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy
Date: September 17, 2010
Concerns about a recommendation in a study to be published in the British Journal of Criminology which suggests that police resources should not be used for criminal anticounterfeiting enforcement for “non-safety critical goods,” and that the entire burden of enforcement rests with the trademark owner
From: INTA, the International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition ICC’s Business Action to Stop Counterfeiting and Piracy, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Global Intellectual Property Center
To: U.S. Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator Victoria Espinel
Date September 9, 2010
Recommendations to limit the scope of ACTA to trademark counterfeiting and copyright piracy; Include provisions to deal with goods in transit and transshipment; Delete the de minimis provision that would explicitly allow consumers to buy counterfeit goods and exclude small consignments in customs inspections.
From: INTA and ICC BASCAP
To: ACTA Negotiators
Date: June 24, 2010
Recommendations and comments regarding the Summary of Key Elements of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement released by ACTA negotiating governments in April 2009
From: INTA, on behalf of the ACTA Business Response Group
To: ACTA Negotiators: USTR Ambassador Ron Kirk, and EU Commission DG Trade IP Unit Head Luc Devigne
Date: July 1, 2009
Comments on Anticounterfeiting Provisions (Bill 333/99)
Cover Letter
Prepared by Latin America & the Caribbean Subcommittees of the Legislation and Regulation and Anticounterfeiting and Enforcement Committees
From: INTA President Rhonda Steele
To: Argentine National Congress
Date: August 7, 2008 (comments dated July 18, 2008)
Joint statement of support of the negotiation of the proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)
From: INTA and ICC BASCAP
To: U.S. Trade Representative; later submitted to the Permanent Representatives of the EU member states
Date: March 19, 2008