Under the criminal law, certain uses of copyright, registered designs or trade mark, without the owner's permission can amount to a criminal offence. IP rights allow people to control the use that others can make of these works. Such rights can exist in a book, a brand, an invention, a design or a song. Intellectual Property results from any person’s creativity and ideas. Search, seizure and retention of material.

London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games.Confiscation and the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (POCA).Common Law Offence of Conspiracy to Defraud.Criminal Offences contrary to the Trade Marks Act 1994 (TMA).Passing off and unregistered trade marks.RDA 1949 (as amended) Section 35ZA was inserted by Section 13 of the Intellectual Property Act 2014.