United States of America
Austria
Copyright and Related Rights
8. Please explain the criminal and civil remedies available for copyright infringement and the extent to which they fully implement the obligations in TRIPS Articles 41, 45, 50 and 61. In the response, please specify, inter alia, whether these remedies may include the seizure, forfeiture and destruction of infringing articles and equipment used to make the infringing articles, as required by Articles 46 and 61, and the manner in which the grant of civil provisional relief is provided in accordance with TRIPS Article 50.
The question concerns provisions contained in Part III of the TRIPS Agreement relating to the enforcement ofintellectual property rights which will be subject to a review procedure by the Council of TRIPS scheduled for the second half of 1997. Therefore, at this stage, no answer is given.