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RCMP upgrading IP (intellectual property) knowledge

MONTREAL - Hundreds of police officers, investigators and federal officers gathered yesterday at the Quebec National Police Academy, in Nicolet, to share information and investigative techniques to combat piracy, counterfeiting and other forms of fraud at the first Conference on Intellectual Property hosted by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Quebec. Intellectual property fraud is mainly related to the illegal counterfeiting and sale of consumer goods or services. This type of crime affects different areas of activities: theft of satellite television signals, and counterfeiting of designer clothes, popular household items and even pharmaceuticals. There are as many types of crime...