International Anti-Counterfeiting Efforts
Peter Maybarduk. Survey of Anti-Counterfeiting Initiatives and Legislation. Essentail Action. (Includes synopses of various efforts listed below)
International Oragnization Anti-Counterfeiting Initiatives
- Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)
- APEC Anti-Counterfeiting and Piracy Initiative
- Global Congress Combating Counterfeiting and Piracy
- Global Congress/World Customs Organization Regional Forum on Protection of Intellectual Property Rights. The Shanghai Initiative. November, 2004.
- Global Congress on Combating Counterfeiting Special Session of the Steering Committee. Rome Declaration, October 21, 2004
- Homepage for the Global Congress Combating Counterfeiting and Piracy
- Group of Eight
World Health Organization Initiatives
- International Medical Products Anti-Counterfeiting Taskforce (IMPACT)
- International Medical Products Anti-Counterfeiting Taskforce (IMPACT) Terms of Reference
- Rome Declaration
- WHOInternational Conference. Combating Counterfeit Drugs: BuildingEffective International Collaboration, Declaration of Rome, February 182006
US Government Documents
- Report to the President and Congress on Coordination of Intellectual Property Enforcement and Protection, January 2008
- Strategy Targeting Organized Piracy (STOP!) Initiative
- Bush Administration Strategy for Targeting Organized Piracy Accomplishments and Initiatives, September 2007
- Department of Homeland Security. Statementof Kevin Delli-Colli Before the Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, DrugPolicy and Human Resources regarding Pharmaceutical Supply Chain. July 11, 2006.
- Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP). Intellectual Property Action Strategy
EU Anti-Counterfeiting Initiatives
- EU - US Action Strategy for the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights, June 20, 2006
- Proposalfor a DIRECTIVE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL onmeasures and procedures to ensure the enforcement of intellectualproperty rights
- European Alliance for Access to Safe Medicines - DG Enterprise and Industry Public Consultation Response
African Anti-Counterfeiting Legislation
- Kenya:An Act of Parliament to prohibit trade in counterfeit goods, toestablish the Anti-Counterfeit Agency, and for connected purposes
- Uganda: The Counterfeit Goods Bill, 2010 Uganda: The Counterfeit Goods Bill, 2008
- Tanzania: Subsidiary Legislation to the Merchandise Marks Act
Industry Documents
- US Chamber of Commerce
- Business Action to Stop Counterfeiting and Piracy (BASCAP)
- Other industry documents in support of anti-counterfeiting initiatives
Academic and Civil Society Documents
- Jaspreet Singh Kapur. Literature Survey on Anti-Counterfeiting Initiatives: Obstacle to Access to Medicines
- Essential Action Re: Comments of Essential Action on the Proposal for an Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
- Business Statement in Support of an OECD Anti-Counterfeiting/Piracy Initiative
- Kevin Outterson & Ryan Smith. Counterfeit Drugs: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
- Xuan Li. WCO Secure: Lessons Learnt From The Abortion of the TRIPS-Plus-Plus IP Enforcement Initiative
- Susan Sell. The Global IP Upward Ratchet, Anti-Counterfeiting and Piracy Enforcement Efforts: The State of Play
- Angeeta Shashikant & Riaz Tayob. How UN Agency Will Enforce Anti-piracy Agenda
- Joint Letter from 10 NGOs to the World Customs Union expressing concerns about SECURE.
