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Many interesting and valid points, there.

My personal take on this, is at another level, though. It is, in my opinion, a general trend that corporations and entities carry a higher lawful protection than individuals, particularly when it comes to imaginary property. Whether it is under the label of trademark law, or some other, is less important, really, as I see it. What is needed is a strengthened consumer protection, and also proportionality that takes civil rights in regard, to cancel out excessive intrusions and sanctions when for instance possessing, having purchased a few items for personal use, or simply passing a border control.

If Italy, for instance, is eager to protect its domestic businesses, it is important that this is carried out in a way that ensures civil rights, so that individuals always have stronger protection than corporations and entities.

I think that if you are to have laws strongly and vastly protecting businesses, efforts should always first go after systematic abuses, and not individuals acting on the market.

As with all debates on intellectual property, or sanctions against privacy and personal freedoms, many vastly different perspectives are brought up in a dishonest and non-stringent way, in order to motivate sanctions.

For instance, when explaining why sanctions to protect, say, trademarks, arguments are often put forward explaining to us that it is for our own good and protection - false drugs and medicines are hugely dangerous, and pirated toys may just not live up to the safety protections the EU has set up. Fair enough, but that explains very poorly why Italians face very hard punitive sanctions for simply owning a fake Gucci handbag, right?

In order to turn this development, my simple opinion is that we should not debate whether trademark law is getting out of control, but to question where the proportionality perspective has gone, in lawmaking in general. And why should corporations "freedoms" carry higher protective value than that of citizens' right to act on the market, purchase the handbag they deem has the right value, or simply passing a border control wearing their old fake Nike t-shirt...

My 25c