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Counterfeit shoes and garments could be costing Europe 500,000 jobs

23/07/2015

A new report from Europe’s Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHMI) suggests that fake products that infringe the intellectual property rights of European clothing, footwear and accessory brands are costing these sectors a combined total of €26 billion per year. In the report, Alicante-based OHMI claims that if these products were...

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