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In May 2021, the EUIPO presented the economic impact of COVID-19 crisis in IPR-intensive industries with data for the 2003-2020 period, including indicators for all intellectual property rights (IPR), trade marks (TM), designs (DES), patents (PAT) and copyright (CR). The IPR-intensive industries included in this paper were those established in the third edition of the EPO/EUIPO report ‘IPR-intensive industries and economic performance in the European Union’. In October 2022, the EPO and the EUIPO presented the fourth edition of this report with a new selection of IPR-intensive industries. Additionally, over the last 2 years, more countries have published short-term statistic (STS) indicators, which constitute the raw data for the IPR monthly indicators. The 2022 edition of the IPR indicators considers the new selection of IPR-intensive industries, new weights for calculating the indicators and all the available countries with data since 2019. These new IPR indicators are based on deflated and volume indicators to eliminate the impact of prices using more aggregated data in the manufacturing sector (NACE divisions). The more extensive list of countries balances out the shorter time series allowing the analysis of economic developments since the COVID-19 pandemic. The new IPR indicators will be updated every quarter to monitor their economic development for the European Union (EU) and 21 Member States (MS) with a total of 63 out of 135 possible indicators.

a Comisión Europea acoge con satisfacción la orientación general alcanzada por los Estados miembros en el Consejo de Justicia y Asuntos de Interior del 8 de junio sobre los dos pilares del Nuevo Pacto sobre Migración y Asilo: el Reglamento sobre Asilo y Gestión de la Migración y el Reglamento sobre el Procedimiento de Asilo.

Operation Fake Star was launched in 2022 within the EMPACT Operational Action (O.A.) 3.4 under the lead of the Spanish National Police and co-lead of the Greek Hellenic Financial Police Division. This operational action aimed to detect counterfeit goods that were violating well-known brands’ intellectual property rights Europe-wide. The operational phases were carried out in accordance with information, data and complaints collected by the participants during the intelligence gathering phases. Commercial and industrial areas, flea markets and tourist areas, warehouses, shops and other similar places where these goods are commonly sold, extending to ports (containers), pop-up shops, and e-commerce related small parcel distribution companies, were targeted. This report will be used to identify particularly effective operational methodologies and possible connections with other cases, to quantify the overall results of the operation and to further develop targeted activities and methodologies.