In 2015, the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), through the European Observatory on Infringements of Intellectual Property Rights, commissioned a research study on online business models used to infringe intellectual property rights (IPRs). The initiative was created as an...

The research study series on business models infringing intellectual property (IP) has, since 2016, been one of the initiatives of the Observatory on Infringements of Intellectual Property Rights ('the Observatory') entrusted to the EUIPO. This 6th edition in the series focuses on the criminal...