4 Amendments of Josef WEIDENHOLZER related to 2014/2151(INI)
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Emphasises the potential threat and damage to consumer health and safety the purchase of IPR infringing goods may result in; thus compliments the Commission on its engagement with consumers, in particular those of the younger generation, via public information campaigns and other relevant means, and encourages it to continue; welcomes, in particular, the efforts of the Observatory located within the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM) that are aimed at raising awareness among consumers of the benefits of choosing IPR respecting products and facilitating access to such products;stresses in this context that product quality and safety is a different issue from product authenticity, thus the IPR status and their possible infringement should be addressed separately; (The second part of this para is moved into a new para to separate the issue of IPR infringement from the issue of product safety)
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Emphasises that the duty of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM) to obtain data documenting IPR infringements from the industry and to generate reliable data and analysis of the real impacts of infringements for economic actors should be part of the ten- point action plan and be the base to further actions in the different sectors most concerned;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Stresses that in order to achieve a meaningful enforcement of IPR, full information should be available and accessible regarding the type of IP rights (for example patent, trademark, copyright) concerned in each situation, the status of the validity of these rights and the identity of the owners;