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<item><title>Congress to highlight rising counterfeiting in Latin America</title><link>/bascap/index.html?id=26346</link><description>The Fifth Global Congress on Counterfeiting and Piracy 2-4 June in Cancun, Mexico, will discuss the rising tide of counterfeiting in Mexico, Central and South America.</description><author>ICC</author><pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 15:07:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="&#xA;        http://www.iccwbo.org/uploadedImages/BASCAP/BASCAP_Web.gif"></enclosure></item>
<item><title>ICC’s BASCAP launches Intellectual Property Guidelines for Business in the Mideast region</title><link>/bascap/index.html?id=25032</link><description>The International Chamber of Commerce’s BASCAP group today released its Intellectual Property (IP) Guidelines for Business in the Middle East during a special session of the First Arab Consumer and Brand Protection Forum, Arab Protect 2008. </description><author>ICC</author><pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="&#xA;        http://www.iccwbo.org/uploadedImages/BASCAP/IP-Guidelines_s(1).gif"></enclosure></item><item><title>ICC’s BASCAP launches Intellectual Property Guidelines for Business at EU Conference on IP</title><link>/bascap/index.html?id=24732</link><description>The International Chamber of Commerce’s BASCAP group today launched a set of intellectual property guidelines designed to help businesses manage copyright and branded materials and deter trade in counterfeit and pirate goods.</description><author>ICC</author><pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:37:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="&#xA;        http://www.iccwbo.org/uploadedImages/BASCAP/IP-Guidelines-launch_s.gif"></enclosure></item>
<item><title>Business welcomes new EU Observatory to fight counterfeiting and piracy</title><link>/bascap/index.html?id=24226</link><description>Business leaders from Business Action to Stop Counterfeiting and Piracy, an initiative of ICC, today welcomed news that the European Council has established a European Observatory on Counterfeiting.</description><author>ICC</author><pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:37:41 GMT</pubDate><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="&#xA;        http://www.iccwbo.org/uploadedImages/BASCAP/online_shopping30345635[1]_.gif"></enclosure></item>

<item><title>Businesses Press for High Standards in Anti-counterfeiting Treaty </title><link>/bascap/index.html?id=24078</link><description>The International Trademark Association and representatives from ICC's Business Action to Stop Counterfeiting and Piracy initiative participated in a public meeting organized by the Office of the US Trade Representative today.</description><author>ICC</author><pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:44:17 GMT</pubDate><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="&#xA;        http://www.iccwbo.org/uploadedImages/BASCAP/ip-bascap-s.gif"></enclosure></item>

<item><title>ICC targets ministers to advance IP protection at G8 summit</title><link>/bascap/id21244/index.html</link><description>ICC has called upon G8 justice ministers and G8 foreign ministers to advocate measures for better intellectual property protection during the G8 Summit in Hokkaido Toyako, Japan next month.</description><author>ICC</author><pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:02:50 GMT</pubDate><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="&#xA;        http://www.iccwbo.org/uploadedImages/BASCAP/bascap-G8-s.gif"></enclosure></item>

<item><title>Proposed multilateral agreement to combat counterfeiting moving forward</title><link>/bascap/id20240/index.html</link><description>ICC's Business Action to Stop Counterfeiting and Piracy (BASCAP) and the International Trademark Association (INTA) today welcomed news that the Council of Ministers had confirmed the proposed mandate authorizing the European Commission to open negotiations on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) between the EU and key economic partners, including the United States, Japan, South Korea, Mexico and New Zealand.</description><author>ICC</author><pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:06:26 GMT</pubDate><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="&#xA;        http://www.iccwbo.org/uploadedImages/BASCAP/INTA_s.gif"></enclosure></item>

<item><title>Business leaders unveil new strategies to combat counterfeiting and piracy </title><link>/bascap/id19420/index.html</link><description>Industry leaders from around the world today unveiled new strategies to combat counterfeiting and piracy, including a set of urgent recommendations for a global anti-counterfeiting pact being negotiated by major trading countries.</description><author>ICC</author><pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:38:54 GMT</pubDate><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="&#xA;        http://www.iccwbo.org/uploadedImages/BASCAP/GLG_2008_s.gif"></enclosure></item>

<item><title>ICC calls for action to stop fakes at global counterfeiting congress</title><link>/id18700/index.html</link><description>Business leaders representing ICC's Business Action to Stop Counterfeiting and Piracy (BASCAP) initiative called on governments and business to take concrete action to stop the global trade in fake products today at a global congress on counterfeiting. </description><author>ICC</author><pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:15:13 GMT</pubDate><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="&#xA;        http://www.iccwbo.org/uploadedImages/BASCAP/Genuine.gif"></enclosure></item>

<item><title>Fourth global congress on combating counterfeiting and piracy opens in Dubai</title><link>/id18684/index.html</link><description>More than 500 senior decision-makers from 70 countries convened today in Dubai to identify solutions to the escalating global problem of product counterfeiting and piracy of intellectual property and to put an end to the damaging effects it is having on consumer health and safety, government resources and revenues, innovation and foreign investment.</description><author>ICC</author><pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 10:53:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="&#xA;        http://www.iccwbo.org/uploadedImages/ICC/ICC_Home_Page/Dubai_congress_s(2).gif"></enclosure></item>

<item><title>Planning underway for Fourth Global Congress on Combating Counterfeiting and Piracy</title><link>/bascap/id17914/index.html</link><description>Planning is underway for the Fourth Global Congress on Combating Counterfeiting and Piracy. With the cooperation and support of ICC through its Business Action to Stop Counterfeiting and Piracy initiative, the gathering will take place in Dubai, UAE from 3-5 February 2008.</description><author>ICC</author><pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:28:12 GMT</pubDate><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="&#xA;        http://www.iccwbo.org/uploadedImages/BASCAP/Disks_s.gif"></enclosure></item>

<item><title>ICC welcomes governments’ new anti-counterfeiting agreement and offers input</title><link>/bascap/id16858/index.html</link><description>ICC said today that its member companies welcomed the announcement of plans for a new Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement to strengthen safeguards against the theft and infringement of intellectual property rights and offered to provide business views and expertise to reinforce this new commitment by governments.</description><author>ICC</author><pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:44:38 GMT</pubDate><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="&#xA;        http://www.iccwbo.org/uploadedImages/BASCAP/BASCAP_art.gif"></enclosure></item>

<item><title>ICC applauds Chinese crackdown on software counterfeiting</title><link>/bascap/id15518/index.html</link><description>ICC welcomed yesterday’s announcement that the Chinese Public Security Bureau, working with the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and customs offices in more than 27 countries, has raided what appears to be the largest software counterfeiting operation ever uncovered.</description><author>ICC</author><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:42:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="&#xA;        http://www.iccwbo.org/uploadedImages/BASCAP/Disks_s.gif"></enclosure></item>

<item><title>ICC asks G8 task force for concrete plan to fight counterfeiting</title><link>/bascap/id14308/index.html</link><description>ICC today commended G8 leaders for continuing to address the complicated and growing epidemic of counterfeiting and piracy at the annual G8 Summit, but expressed disappointment at the lack of substance on these issues in the outcome statement released at the G8 Summit in Heiligendamm last week. </description><author>ICC</author><pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2007 17:51:21 GMT</pubDate><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="&#xA;        http://www.iccwbo.org/uploadedImages/G8_s.gif"></enclosure></item>

<item><title>OECD study a vital step to understanding the global scope of counterfeiting</title><link>/bascap/id13660/index.html</link><description>The summary of the counterfeiting and piracy study released today by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) represents the most comprehensive and thorough investigation of the problem ever conducted, and a vital step towards a more complete understanding of the scope and harmful effects of this illegal activity, the International Chamber of Commerce said.</description><author>ICC</author><pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2007 15:44:43 GMT</pubDate><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="&#xA;        http://www.iccwbo.org/uploadedImages/BASCAP/BASCAP_G8_s(1).gif"></enclosure></item>

<item><title>ICC urges G8 to take lead in stopping product counterfeiting and piracy</title><link>/bascap/id13600/index.html</link><description>The leaders of the G8 must take bigger, bolder steps to beat back counterfeiting and piracy, the International Chamber of Commerce said today in a letter sent to G8 leaders in advance of their Summit Meeting in Heiligendamm, Germany. </description><author>ICC</author><pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2007 14:40:01 GMT</pubDate><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="&#xA;        http://www.iccwbo.org/uploadedImages/BASCAP/BASCAP_G8_s.gif"></enclosure></item>

<item><title>Global congress identifies priorities for combating counterfeiting and piracy</title><link>/policy/ip/id13056/index.html</link><description>In response to the epidemic of counterfeiting and piracy, top government officials, business leaders and international law enforcement officials met in Geneva at the Third Global Congress on Combating Counterfeiting and Piracy, to call for action.</description><author>ICC</author><pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2007 14:59:23 GMT</pubDate><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="&#xA;        http://www.iccwbo.org/uploadedImages/genuine(3).gif"></enclosure></item>

<item><title>ICC and UN to intensify cooperation</title><link>/id11640/index.html</link><description>During a meeting at UN headquarters yesterday, ICC Secretary General Guy Sebban and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon agreed that cooperation between business and the UN should be intensified. </description><author>ICC</author><pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2007 17:36:53 GMT</pubDate><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="&#xA;        http://www.iccwbo.org/uploadedImages/ICC/ICC_Home_Page/UN-Photo-_s.gif"></enclosure></item>

<item><title>Anti-counterfeiting experts to gather in China</title><link>/policy/ip/id11400/index.html</link><description>Business experts and government officials from around the world will meet at the Global Innovation and IP Forum in Beijing on 27-28 March to build strategies to fight the increasing problem of counterfeit goods and piracy of intellectual property rights.</description><author>ICC</author><pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2007 12:14:59 GMT</pubDate><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="&#xA;        http://www.iccwbo.org/uploadedImages/beijing_s.gif"></enclosure></item>
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