FDRA urges action as fake shoe seizures go up by 350%
02/03/2016
A government committee said afterwards that it was the information it had gathered from the FDRA to identify nations failing to provide “adequate patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secret protections”.
FDRA president, Matt Priest, told the committee that seizures of counterfeit footwear had increased by more than 350% in the last three years. He also said that footwear had gone from being the world’s twelfth most-seized product for IP violations to sixth position.
Mr Priest commented afterwards: “Our member companies devote significant resources to develop cutting-edge performance products and to protect the value of their brands. These efforts support thousands of US jobs, jobs that are put at risk by counterfeiting and piracy.”
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