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* Protect your most Valuable Assets - Your Brand and your Designs: IP Protection, Enforcement and Safeguards in Europe and the Far East This conference is meant to give practical information on the current situation of brand and design protection in the sporting goods industry. Three main issues will be examined: Firstly, the tools and instruments for the protection of intellectual property rights within the European Union, including the new Community Designs Regulation, and the OHIM (Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market). The second part will focus on intellectual property rights protection and enforcement in the Far East, including China, where the problem of counterfeit and piracy is seriously affecting the sporting goods industry. Finally, the conference will address the latest anti-counterfeit security and brand authentication technologies. Organiser: FESI (the Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry) with the FEDAS (Federation of the European Sporting Goods Retailers) and the WFSGI (World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry). Venue: Munich, Date: August 3, Information: Fax: (+32) 2/ 771 87 4* The future of the Services of General Interest The objective of...