Region: Greece

Greece: Collaboration and enforcement actions needed to handle surge in digital and offline fakes

Featured in Anti-counterfeiting and Online Brand Enforcement: Global Guide 2024

Greece remains a popular hub for counterfeit goods entering mainland Europe, posing risks to public health and brand reputation. Additional pressure from the rise of digital marketplaces warrants more attention from enforcement authorities and better collaboration with rights holders to curb the uptick in infringing products, on and offline.

24 June 2024

Greek KALAMATA olive decision sets precedent for future EU GI disputes

In a decision of EU-wide significance, the Supreme Administrative Court of Greece has found that a PDO for KALAMATA olives could coexist with a plant variety right of the same name.

12 April 2024

Greece: Enforcement actions urgently needed to take on uptick in digital fakes and offline fraud

Featured in Anti-counterfeiting and Online Brand Enforcement: Global Guide 2023

Authorities are fighting tooth and nail to rewrite the country’s reputation as a hub for counterfeiters, but despite these efforts illicit traders continue to infiltrate digital and physical markets.

29 September 2023

Greece: Trademark procedures and strategies

Featured in World Trademark Review Yearbook 2022/2023

Unregistered signs are protected under Articles 13 to 15 of the Unfair Competition Law in Greece and may constitute relative grounds for refusal. In particular, protection is offered to signs that are deemed to have become a distinctive feature of the goods or services that they cover.

21 October 2022

Online marketplaces in Greece that brand owners must be aware of

Featured in Online marketplace counterfeit hotspots

In our regular series we speak with local experts to identify the digital marketplaces that brand owners should have on their anti-counterfeiting policing and enforcement radar.

19 May 2022

Greece: sea ports remain a key route for counterfeits

Featured in Anti-counterfeiting and Online Brand Enforcement: Global Guide 2022

Greece is one of five EU member states that accounts for more than 90% of the total detentions of suspected counterfeit goods in the EU internal market. It appears in the top ranks for detentions by number of items and the estimated value of items detained.

15 April 2022

Triple blow for pharmaceutical company Kowa in dispute with generic drug manufacturer Krka

Kowa Company Ltd, the owner of the mark PITAVA in Class 5, suffered a series of defeats before the Hellenic Trademarks Committee and the Athens Civil Court of First Instance.

01 February 2022

Greece

Featured in World Trademark Review Yearbook 2021/2022

Greece’s long-anticipated new trademark law was enacted on 20 March 2020. Law 4679/2020 has finally transposed EU Directive 2015/2436 into Greek law and brings the treatment of national trademarks in line with EU trademarks (as regulated by EU Regulation 2017/1001).

29 July 2021

Procedures and strategies for anti-counterfeiting: Greece

Featured in Anti-counterfeiting and Online Brand Enforcement: Global Guide 2021

Greece is one of five member states of the European Union accounting for more than 90% of the total detentions of suspected counterfeit goods in the EU internal market and appears in both the top rankings of detentions by number of items and estimated value of items detained.

11 May 2021

Amendments to Greek Trademark Law that brand owners should be aware of

The new Greek Trademark Law has come into force, bringing welcome news for brand owners as it aims to harmonise Greek trademark regulations with those of the accompanying EU directive.

12 November 2020