Patents outside scope of EU move on piracy
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
The European Parliament has backed a Commission proposal to criminalise intentional for-profit intellectual property counterfeiting and piracy. The intention of the directive is to concentrate on areas such as copyright, related rights, trademarks and trade names, but during this first reading, MEPs voted to exclude patents from the scope of the IP enforcement rights directive, as well as acts by private persons, as long as they were for personal and not-for-profit purposes.