Counterfeit Lubricant Ingredients: The Ghost in the Machine
The unrelenting search for top-quality products at the lowest possible price has opened the door for counterfeiters to infiltrate the supply chain and digital marketplaces with their fake goods, causing concern on a global scale. After a year in which e-commerce...
Patents Can be Your Secret Weapon to Protect Your Big Data Operation
Patents Can be Your Secret Weapon to Protect Your Big Data Operation The need for, and use of, data has permeated almost every industry, especially as it feeds artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). For many companies, data is the essential ingredient...
Counterfeit Designer Products: If Santa Was Traveling by Tanker, Our Stockings Might be Empty
In early November, US Border Protection and Homeland Security officers seized 13,000 counterfeit designer products from California ports. If the goods were genuine, they would have fetched a retail price of $30M. Where did the tankers originate from? You guessed it,...
Digital Counterfeiting: COVID Has Made An Already Billion-Dollar Problem Far Worse
Before COVID, counterfeiting was already an existing and growing problem. Imitation and cheap products have been a challenge for trusted brands for at least 20 years. With the reliance upon the internet for obtaining everyday essentials during the global lockdown,...