6. With regard to cases that involve the infringement of intellectual property, could the Government of South Africa provide data on the number of:
- law suits that have been filed including their respective outcome and the average length from the filing of a complaint until the final judgement;
- injunctions that have been issued (as defined in Article 44 of the TRIPS Agreement) and explain how such injunctions are being enforced;
- provisional measures (as defined in Article 50 of the TRIPS Agreement) that have been granted and the average length to obtain such measures (from the request);
- suspensions at the border of counterfeit trademark/pirated copyright goods or in relation to goods where other intellectual property rights are infringed;
- criminal cases including the sentences that have been applied; whether they have been executed; and please also explain what kind of infringement of an intellectual property right would be regarded as a violation of criminal law;
- seizures and/or destruction of counterfeit trademark and pirated copyright goods.
