IP Infringement: G7 Nations Pledge Cooperation to Fight IP Infringement but Will It Be Sufficient?
Last month, the heads of the intellectual property (IP) offices in the G7 nations – United States, Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, and Japan – along with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), pledged to work together to promote innovation...
Online Counterfeit Products: How to Protect Your Company
Counterfeit products being sold online goes farther than simply injecting fake products into the marketplace. In the daily battlefield that is e-commerce, search engine optimization (SEO) is the lifeblood of many businesses. SEO uses key words and phrases to focus...
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...
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,...