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Wednesday, 22 April 2009 11:29 |
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LONDON, April 22 /PRNewswire/ --
The UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) today ruled that Pfizer's groundbreaking cinema advertising in which a man is seen coughing-up a dead rat did not breach the industry advertising code.(1)
The advert, seen by cinema audiences across the UK, highlights the danger of obtaining medicines from unregulated sources (see http://www.realdanger.co.uk). Evidence shows there is a risk of these medicines being counterfeit, containing too little, too much or no active ingredient, or worse, toxic substances such as rat poison, boric acid or lead paint.(4)
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Read more: ASA Concludes Pfizer's Hard Hitting Counterfeit Medicines Advert 'Did Not Breach Code'
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Wednesday, 22 April 2009 11:23 |
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BBC-Internet law professor Michael Geist on the battle over a controversial global anti-counterfeiting treaty.
Governments want to stop counterfeiting but there are concerns ACTA goes too far
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 Since the United States, European Union, Japan, Canada, and a handful of other countries announced their participation in the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement negotiations in October 2007, the ACTA has been dogged by controversy over the near-total lack of transparency. Early negotiations were held in secret locations with each participating country offering nearly-identical cryptic press releases that did little more than fuel public concern.
The participating countries conducted four major negotiation sessions in 2008 and though the first session of 2009 was postponed at the request of the US (which was busy transitioning to a new president), the negotiations are set to resume in May in Morocco.
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Read more: Battle over global anti-counterfeit treaty
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Tuesday, 21 April 2009 13:21 |
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The United Kingdom has joined the 26 other EU member states and the European Community as a signatory to the 2004 anti-contraband and anti-counterfeit agreement with Philip Morris International (PMI) and the 2007 co-operation agreement with Japan Tobacco International (JTI), the European Commission said on April 21 2009.
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Read more: All EU states sign up against illicit tobacco trade
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Friday, 17 April 2009 08:03 |
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Nautilus Inc. Thursday said it has filed two lawsuits in Canadian federal court against companies it accuses of importing counterfeit products.
The Vancouver, Wash.-based manufacturer of fitness equipment (NYSE: NLS) said it was given permission to enter the premises of Montreal-based SC Excel Technology to seize the counterfeit goods and relevant records.
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Read more: Nautilus sues companies for counterfeit products
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Friday, 17 April 2009 08:00 |
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 Last month, the FBI charged two Brooklyn, N.Y., men with buying 15 cases of cigarettes from a New Jersey undercover agent who says he told the men the smokes were stolen.
Each case held about 600 packs on which no state tax had been paid, keeping the price down. If the alleged buyers had resold them on the black market, as the FBI says they intended, they could have hiked the price by at least a dollar a pack and still undercut New Jersey stores.
If they had resold them in New York, where the cigarette tax is the highest in the nation, they could have pocketed more.
In the end, authorities allege, the transaction could have netted the pair at least $9,000 for less than a day's work.
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Read more: Cigarette smuggling may be on the rise
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