South-East Asia

The European Multidisciplinary Platform Against Criminal Threats (EMPACT) is an integrated approach against organised and serious international crime in the EU. Member States work with EU institutions to ensure internal security, from information exchange to training and joint operational actions, aiming to dismantle criminal networks.

Organised and serious international crime damages the economy, harming both individuals and society. Criminal networks are often complex, and strategies to suppress crime must equally be multidisciplinary and multiagency to be more effective.

The conference will focus on the latest developments in the areas of trade marks and industrial designs, the impact of technological developments in the protection and enforcement of marks, and improvements in online tools. Bad faith registrations and other issues in the enforcement of trade marks as well as recent developments in the industrial design regimes of the EU and SEA countries will also be discussed.

In the margins of the 4th edition of the International Intellectual Property (IP) Mediation Conference which took place in Alicante from 19 to 20 October 2023, a bilateral meeting was organised between Executive Director Mr João Negrão and Director General of the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL), Mr Rowel S. Barba.