Consumer protection from trademark counterfeiting and piracy

Abstract

The trademark is considered one of the most important elements of industrial property that has increased interest with the development of local commerce and foreign trade, and is closely linked to the quality of goods and services, to preserve its value as a title of quality, in order to gain consumer confidence and encourage him to acquire it, and it has an important role in determining the source of these goods which made it a place for various forms of attacks, especially the crimes of counterfeiting and piracy, which are considered a violation and breach of industrial property rights, due to the fraud, deception and misleading of the consumer, and the theft of software and business, as piracy is one of the economic risks that threaten the world, in the form of counterfeit goods and computer programs that are copied, theft of industrial and trade secrets, the acquisition of innovations,
scientific and technological innovations, an through the robbery of industrial property rights, which required the intervention of the national legislator to set laws to regulate the mark and its protection, through the issuance of low No. 03/06, law No 03/09 related to consumer protection and the suppression of fraud, and law 04/02 on commercial practices, as well as attaching great importance to both civil and penal protection for the consumer and achieving his safety.