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Fake Goods Penetrating Vietnam All Too Easily

Fake Goods Penetrating Vietnam All Too Easily

Law enforcement authorities met Friday to discuss the swell of counterfeit goods in Vietnam recently, a development that has shamed the country’s moves towards stronger intellectual property rights regulations.

At a conference on preventing fake goods in the southern Ba Ria-Vung Tau province Friday, delegates warned that the growth of sophisticated copycat items should wake the country up to the need for the protection of intellectual property rights.

Fake goods have fooled both authorities and consumers and are entering the Vietnamese market freely, said Phan Hung Chien, vice head of the Criminal Investigation Bureau under the Ministry of Public Security.

Many fake goods are now more elaborately detailed and designed that ever before, according to authorities.

Chien expressed serious concern that several popular counterfeit items may have seriously adverse health affects on consumers.

He cited a rash of recent cases in which food, liquor, and medicine had been faked in large amounts since early this year.

Fake hi-tech goods like motorbikes, electronic items, CDs, and even counterfeit currency have entered Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, the country’s two largest markets for counterfeit goods.

An official from the Ministry of Information and Communications said the infringement of intellectual property rights had also became rife in the fields of publishing, labeling, software, movies, and art.

Counterfeit networks had been expanded abroad and the fight against them was growing stronger all the time, Chien admitted.

Delegates at the conference spoke out against the lack of legal guidelines in prosecuting criminal goods-fakers and counterfeiters. They also pointed their fingers at light fines and easy penalties given to violators, saying such measures were not strong deterrents.

Insufficient cooperation between enforcement agencies concerned was also to blame, some delegates said, calling for closer coordination.

Since 2002, police have uncovered around 1,000 counterfeit cases as well as thousands of intellectual property rights infringements.

Source: Thanh Nien

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