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WIDE VARIETY OF COUNTERFEIT GOODS BEING DISPOSED OF

COUNTERFEIT GOODS CONFISCATED

DEPARTMENT GOVERNMENT

ARE DISPOSED OF BY AUCTION SUPPLIES,

OF

OF

BY THE CUSTOMS AND EXCISE THROUGH THE DIRECTOR

COMMISSIONER TO THE AVAILABLE MAKING CORRECTIONAL SERVICES FOR VIETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE, DONATING TO CHARITY, OR BEING DESTROYED.

THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY, THE HON SIR PIERS IN A WRITTEN

QUESTION BY REPLY TO A LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

THE

JACOBS, SAID THIS HON ELSIE TU

THE IN

AND EXCISE OF COUNTERFEIT

THE CUSTOMS SIR PIERS SAID IN THE PAST TWO YEARS, DEPARTMENT CONFISCATED AND DISPOSED OF A WIDE VARIETY GOODS.

GARMENTS, WATCHES, LEATHERWARE,

SOFTWARE, COMPUTER

COMPUTER

INCLUDED CONFISCATED ITEMS

MANUALS, CASSETTE TAPES, AUDIO/VIDEO PUBLICATIONS, FOODSTUFFS, CHINESE PARENT MEDICINES AND PLASTIC GOODS.

COPYRIGHT

HE SAID COUNTERFEIT GOODS WERE CONFISCATED UNDER THE AND TRADE DESCRIPTIONS ORDINANCES IN ORDER TO SAFEGUARD THE RIGHTS

AND TO PROTECT CONSUMERS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OWNERS COUNTERFEIT MERCHANDISE WHICH COULD BE SUBSTANDARD OR ENDANGER HEALTH.

SIR PIERS EXPLAINED THAT THE METHOD OF DISPOSAL HAD THE TYPES OF GOODS AND THE REASONS FOR CONFISCATION.

FOR EXAMPLE,

HE

OF

AGAINST PUBLIC

REGARD ΤΟ

FAKE

SOFTWARE AND COMPUTER WATCHES, MEDICINE AND LEATHERWARE

PIRATED SAID, COMPUTER MANUALS AND COUNTERFEIT WOULD BE DESTROYED.

"THEORETICALLY, COUNTERFEIT AUDIO/VIDEO

BE WIPED CLEAN AND MADE AVAILABLE FOR AUCTION. HOWEVER, THIS WOULD UNECONOMICAL AND SUCH ITEMS ARE THEREFORE ALSO DESTROYED,

GENERAL

FOR GARMENTS, AS A REMOVE THE OFFENDING TRADE MARK OR

WOULD UNIDENTIFIABLE, ARRANGEMENTS AUCTIONED OR MADE AVAILABLE TO THE OR DONATED TO CHARITY.

RULE,

CASSETTE TAPES COULD

BE

HE ADDED,

IS

POSSIBLE

ΤΟ

WHERE IT WHERE THE PRODUCT IS OTHERWISE

BE MADE

THE GOODS TO BE CORRECTIONAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT

FOR

THE OFFENDING TRADE ITS REMOVAL WOULD

CASE,

DESTRUCTION

"HOWEVER, FOR SOME CONFISCATED GARMENTS,

AND ARTICLE, MARK FORMS AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE

IN THIS UNUSABLE. HAVE

THE GARMENTS RENDERED REMAINS THE ONLY VIABLE OPTION," SIR PIERS SAID.

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