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Reference
Title: | Les PME et la lutte Anti-Contrefaçon |
Author: | [Confédération Générale des Petites et Moyennes Entreprises] |
Year: | 2007 |
Details
Subject/Type: | Counterfeiting |
Focus: | Barriers, Brands (deceptive counterfeits), Brands (non-deceptive counterfeits) |
Country/Territory: | France |
Objective: | To examine what proportion of small and medium-sized enterprises is affected by counterfeiting, and what measures can be taken to respond to it. |
Sample: | Small and medium-sized enterprises |
Methodology: | Online survey |
Main Findings
35% of French small and medium-sized enterprises are victims of counterfeiting. Half of those affected by counterfeiting have taken legal measures to defend their intellectual property (IP) assets. The average duration of such a judicial procedure (perceived as costly by 57%) is between one and three years for 57%. A high number of victims (71.5%) reports that the compensation awarded to them was lower than the damages sustained due to the infringement.
Almost two in three victims of counterfeiting decided to review their business strategy: 43% of them reinforced their IP rights protection, 14% plan more product innovation, and 7% changed their commercial/marketing strategy. 36% did not change their strategy in response to the IP infringements suffered.
The entities perceived as most effective to take action in IP matters are: lawyers (35%), IP consultants (33%), judges (17%), and bailiffs (15%). Preferred repressive entities are: customs (39%), followed by the “Direction générale de la concurrence, de la consommation et de la répression des fraudes” (27%), the gendarmerie (20%), and the police (14%).
According to respondents, measures helpful in combating counterfeiting are: more information about counterfeited products, e-mail alerts regarding counterfeits, special IP insurance, lower cost of international IP registration, and a more active role of the national industrial property office.
[Date Added: Nov 20, 2008 ]