Council regulations empowered customs officers of member states to seize goods suspected of being counterfeit or pirated and in breach of Trade Mark and other laws This applied even to goods which were merely seized in transit through a member state, from a non-EU source to a non-EU destination. The validity of the regulation was not capable of doubt, and no factor had been identified which could challenge its validity. The wording of the regulation expressly envisaged such action.
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Times 14-Apr-2000, C-383/98, [2000] EUECJ C-383/98
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Cited – Nokia Corporation v Revenue and Customs ChD 27-Jul-2009
Nokia sought judicial review of a decision of the Commissioners to release a consignment of goods which it said were infringing counterfeits of its own models. The Commissioners said that in the absence of evidence that they were intended for . .
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European, Customs and Excise, Intellectual Property
Updated: 20 May 2022; Ref: scu.89840