Leading international luxury brand Salvatore Ferragamo has won an important victory in the battle against counterfeiting. The Southern District Court of New York, where the Florentine company, last January, had filed its civil lawsuit ...
IDG News Service - Google is benefiting in terms of advertisement revenue from YouTube videos that depict and even promote dangerous or illegal activities, two state attorneys general in the U.S. have stated in a letter to the company. ...
Tags: Computer Products, Google, Youtube Videos
A total of 328 website domains accused of selling counterfeit goods were shut down by US and European authorities in the latest crackdown on online fraud. US authorities shut down 177 domain names for websites selling counterfeit ...
Tags: Online Fraud, Online Sale Websites
The U.S. government should bar foreign companies that repeatedly steal or use stolen U.S. intellectual property from selling their products in the country, a new report recommended. About US$300 billion worth of intellectual property is ...
Tags: US, Foreign Firms, Intellectual Property
The Bike Cooperative is working with Channel IQ to offer its supplier partners discounts on MAP monitoring and enforcement, dealer verification, and detection of gray market and counterfeit goods and unauthorized dealers. Channel IQ ...
Tags: Bike, MAP Monitoring
The American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA) welcomed publication of the 2013 Special 301 Report by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR). The Special 301 Report is an annual assessment of global intellectual property ...
Image courtesy of Australian Customs and Border Protection Service. The World Customs Organisation and GS1 will be present at the upcoming 7th Global Congress on Combating Counterfeiting and Piracy, to be held in Istanbul, Turkey from ...
In an earlier column, we discussed a framework for risk identification. With the understanding that risk lies at the intersection of vulnerability (specific points of weakness in the supply chain) and exposure (financial or production ...
The European Commission has today presented a package of initiatives to make trademark registration systems all over the European Union cheaper, quicker, more reliable and predictable. The proposed reform would improve conditions for ...
Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters (CME) is applauding new legislation introduced today in the House of Commons aimed at cracking down on counterfeit goods. CME says the bill will provide RCMP and customs officials the authority to ...
The explosive growth in the production and sale of counterfeit goods is a crisis affecting consumers everywhere. This little understood and too-often ignored multi-billion dollar industry is a global menace, and the upcoming one-hour ...
IDG News Service-U.S.Immigration and Customs Enforcement has seized 70 websites accused of selling products that infringe copyright,bringing the number of websites seized by ICE in the last two years to 839. The websites recently seized ...
Proposed laws could protect virtual intellectual property. A number of Internet laws that aim to protect intellectual property rights online have been proposed in recent months. While only one piece of legislation has passed, proposed ...
Tags: Business Implications, Computer Products, Cyber Legislation
IDG News Service - An Internet safety education campaign will point out scams and other online dangers with an initial target audience of children and seniors. The new Digital Citizens campaign, launched Thursday, will also strive to shed ...
Tags: Internet Safety, Digital Citizens Group, safety education campaign
Germany-As a premium manufacturer of microphones,headphones and wireless transmission systems,Sennheiser is intensifying its global commitment to fighting product piracy.The clear focus of all measures is the protection of both customer and ...
Tags: microphones, headphones, wireless transmission systems, Sennheiser