This time of year, many husbands are scrambling for a last-minute gift for their wives and jewelry is often seen as a perfect solution. But beware: all that glitters isn’t gold and if a deal is to good to be true it’s likely counterfeit jewelry. Jewelry is an...
More than $1 billion in fake goods were recovered during a counterfeit goods seizure in a raid of a storage facility in Manhattan by Homeland Security and the New York Police Department (NYPD) this past week. In a statement to the media, the Homeland Security special...
As 2022 drew to a close, Congress passed an Act, with bipartisan support, that will enable the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to enforce requirements geared toward combatting online counterfeit sales. The Act, called the Integrity, Notification and Fairness in Online...
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...
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...
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...
