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"The economic well-being of the European Union relies on sustained creativity and innovation. It is therefore important to make efforts towards measures for their effective protection. Intellectual property rights are vital business assets that help to ensure that innovators and creators get a fair return for their work and that their investment in research and new ideas is protected. Despite all efforts, there is a constant rise in infringements of these rights, which constitutes a threat not only to the Union economy, but also to health and safety of the population. Therefore, effective, immediate and coordinated actions at European and global levels are needed to successfully combat this phenomenon. One of the major initiatives of the Council and the Commission back in 2009 was the launching of a European Observatory on Counterfeiting and Piracy in order to respond to this threat. I firmly believe, though, that it is equally important that individual Member States make efforts to enhance cooperation between the office in question and the national Intellectual Property Offices.
Data and the exchange of best practices are needed on the entire range of intellectual property rights in order to obtain a complete picture of the situation and to allow the design of comprehensive strategies to reduce intellectual property rights infringements. The Office’s mandate should also be extended to cover the protection of patents, copyright and related rights, as well as geographical indications."@en1
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