The company invested $30 million toward its own youth prevention plan, and went after counterfeiters, copycat devices and illegal online sales of both its own product and counterfeiters.
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Of course, iPhones aren't the only things attracting Chinese counterfeiters.
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I look at counterfeiters like a bully on a playground.
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Alibaba intends to file suits against other counterfeiters, the company said.
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As in London, counterfeiters will try to take advantage of that.
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The new design may be helping to deter counterfeiters, Hamer said.
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However, the counterfeiters have gotten so sophisticated, it's often difficult to tell.
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These counterfeiters didn't just start copying Apple within the past two years.
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Counterfeiters frequently post to Stories because the content disappears in 24 hours.
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That's how good the counterfeiters have gotten at making the illicit drugs.
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This is a complex problem, and fighting global counterfeiters is hard work.
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To help fend off counterfeiters, the central bank added special new features.
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"Sometimes counterfeiters will skimp on the box or the paper," Altieri says.
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Ma called on the Chinese government on Tuesday to crack down on counterfeiters.
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These counterfeiters also drive a black market where there is no age verification.
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They're still making money from counterfeit products, and counterfeiters can hide behind anonymity.
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Xinhua said the action against the counterfeiters was carried out late last year.
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Recently the NFF complained about how counterfeiters can potentially ruin such lucrative deals.
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Companies like Diesel spend significant resources chasing down counterfeiters and stamping them out.
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Police have been sent out to raid the operations of counterfeiters across China.
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Read MoreAmazon counterfeiters wreak havoc on artists "It really is a flywheel," he said.
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It simply printed paper notes, decreed that people must accept them and killed counterfeiters.
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Because we are there the counterfeiters move to other brands, other companies, other places.
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In more recent months, Amazon has become more active in its fight against counterfeiters.
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That isn't deterring Juul, though, since more counterfeiters are popping up as the company grows.
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Over 85,000 tons of freshly painted green olives were seized by police from food counterfeiters.
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Until a few years ago it was one of the largest counterfeiters of $100 bills.
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They were serially numbered, signed by Morris and engraved in complex swirls to deter counterfeiters.
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Scalpers sell the toys at ridiculous markups, while counterfeiters dupe desperate families into buying knockoffs.
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Counterfeiters then don't have to worry about mimicking signature colors or consistencies in spirits like whiskey.
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New methods of thwarting counterfeiters, like color changing ink, also appeared on some of the bills.
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Orr said she and other sellers are paying for the problem brought on by the counterfeiters.
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Stopping counterfeiters, however - rather than just making their job harder - is an ongoing challenge, he admitted.
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Alibaba has said it was disappointed by the decision and called for harsher penalties for counterfeiters.
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The revelation that counterfeiters are altering the novel's meaning would sound all-too-familiar to Orwell.
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In November, a judge granted a temporary restraining order to freeze the counterfeiters' assets and storefronts.
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Amazon joined a lawsuit filed by Nite Ize to try to track down the counterfeiters' identities.
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Alibaba founder billionaire Jack Ma wants China to crack down on counterfeiters — even throwing them in jail.
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Alibaba has been dogged for years by critics who called its online shopping platforms conduits for counterfeiters.
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Alibaba has long faced accusations that its websites are a haven for counterfeiters, including of luxury goods.
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Suffice it to say, counterfeiters couldn't care less about anyone they hurt while trying to make money.
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The prospect of an easily accessible global market attracts counterfeiters, money launderers, and fencers of stolen goods.
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Counterfeiters might also take advantage of soundalikes, says Mr Dresden, who advises clients to trademark those, too.
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"Alibaba, Amazon and eBay face virtually no liability when they act as middlemen for counterfeiters," he wrote.
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In July, the German shoemaker Birkenstock Orthopadie GmbH decided to stop selling on Amazon because of counterfeiters.
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"It's self-defeating (for counterfeiters) to copy the code - it just leads us to you," Simons said.
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The company has been dogged for years by accusations that its shopping platforms were conduits for counterfeiters.
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In his public statement on Thursday, Zhang recounted efforts the company has taken to thwart pirates and counterfeiters.
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Facts:The Secret Service is one of the country's oldest federal investigative agencies, founded in 1865 to stop counterfeiters.
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Amazon itself even took the unprecedented step last month of filing two lawsuits against counterfeiters on its site.
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In the past, Ma has defended counterfeiters and said they're sometimes better than the real thing, FT reported.
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But Davis described the hunt for counterfeiters as a "challenge" because the sellers can easily make new profiles.
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The currency was rapidly devalued due, in part, to highly skilled British counterfeiters flooding the market with fakes.
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World counterfeiters, take note: A crime ring in Ghana may have just raised the bar for audacious forgeries.
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SEERA is an important part of a hardline, all-of-the-above approach to fighting back against counterfeiters.
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Officials in China, home to many black-market manufacturers, also fought counterfeiters before the 2008 Games in Beijing.
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Then came a group of counterfeiters, who left their printing materials visible from the window, Ms. Lewis said.
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Fake drivers licenses and fake Social Security cards with stolen Social Security numbers already generate revenue for counterfeiters.
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The priciness of the outerwear, along with their celebrity endorsees, make them attractive to counterfeiters and thieves alike.
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France was adept not only at protecting its own artisans and attracting other nationalities, but in defanging counterfeiters.
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Slayer, he said, will have to make sure that the counterfeiters aren't profiting off of them as well.
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Meanwhile, Amazon (AMZN) is receiving scrutiny over its relationship to book publishers, alleged counterfeiters and third-party sellers.
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And both government officials and counterfeiters know that raids are an infinitely repeating game of whack-a-mole.
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Unfortunately, some of that amount may be diverted by counterfeiters attempting to cash in on that with phony goods.
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However, counterfeiters do not utilize the same type of age verification systems, which may enable minors to purchase products.
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We'll meet a dark net dealer, counterfeiters, and sugar babies to explore the politics and motivations behind these operations.
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Mr. Seiden tracked down a ring of counterfeiters operating from Latvia and Scotland and manufacturing fake watches in China.
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Brunetti sought a trademark because it would make it easier to protect his brand of casual clothing against counterfeiters.
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"The Chinese counterfeiters pop up so fast, the moment you take them down another one pops up," he said.
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As long as the EU drug wholesaling networks remain in their current state, the counterfeiters have room to maneuver.
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While his business was quickly growing, Mr. Hankerson had no idea counterfeiters were profiting off his work as well.
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"It's hard for Louis Vuitton to go after counterfeiters, let alone people selling Trump clothing and caps," Baran said.
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He urged platforms to find a more effective, automated process for detecting and blocking counterfeit listings, to create better ways to vet sellers and prevent counterfeiters from listing products again and again under different names, and to stop counterfeiters from using genuine photos of brands to market their products without their consent.
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By contrast, China's IP law -- well, historically, it's been a bit of a free-for-all, especially for trademark counterfeiters.
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According to the Counterfeit Report, counterfeiters destroy some 750,000 U.S. jobs and cost domestic businesses over $250 billion a year.
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Related to this, counterfeiters are a problem on Amazon's site — as recent lawsuits in which Amazon is participating also show.
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We even reached the point in the Internet Straw News Cycle where counterfeiters were selling fake metal straws on Amazon.
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"The prevalence of counterfeiters has increased dramatically over the last year consistent with JUUL's rise in the marketplace," Davis said.
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Counterfeiters Have Been Painting Expired Olives to Sell ThemA sting operation in Italy has yielded an unlikely cache of loot.
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There is no other resale company doing more to remove fakes, and put counterfeiters out of business, than The RealReal.
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Just recently, a Northern Virginia woman was caught in a scheme returning hundreds of fake handbags purchased from online counterfeiters.
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But many counterfeiters have moved beyond just making knockoffs to copying everything about a brand, short of the entire name.
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China, long a haven for piracy and counterfeiters, has worked hard to strengthen its intellectual property laws in recent years.
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They were skeptical of her plan to hire experts for authentication, figuring user ratings were sufficient to flush out counterfeiters.
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"The majority of counterfeiters are not held legally responsible for their actions," wrote Ma in a statement to China's parliamentary delegates.
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Once a company has introduced its product to Chinese counterfeiters, they can start selling their knockoffs globally, whether on Alibaba, Amazon.
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Juul is going after the counterfeiters through the legal system, as well as directly with sales platforms like Ebay and Amazon.
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In the suits, Amazon said it invests tens of millions of dollars in developing and deploying technology to weed out counterfeiters.
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The need for the more efficient testing has cropped up because coffee is becoming an increasingly common target for food counterfeiters.
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The problem of fakes on AliExpress has even ensnared other American small retailers, who have become unwitting customers for the counterfeiters.
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Lawmakers floated higher penalties for selling fake goods and ways to grant government agencies more authority to crack down on counterfeiters.
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In other instances, the counterfeiters change their names and credentials, and resubmit similar apps after one round of fakes is discovered.
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Of course, the Chinese are also prodigious counterfeiters, knocking off everything from Louis Vuitton handbags to Harley Davidsons and prescription medicines.
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Anyone who plans to go after counterfeiters in China should expect a time-consuming, bureaucratic, tedious and expensive process, he said.
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"We try always to develop very sophisticated security features because we want to stay far ahead of the counterfeiters," he added.
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Seven different business owners told CNN their products were being actively targeted by counterfeiters using Amazon's marketplace for third-party vendors.
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E-commerce sellers, from legitimate brands to counterfeiters, can also buy good reviews through dodgy websites, online forums and Facebook groups.
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But trade has a dark side as well, as counterfeiters and other trade cheats try to take advantage of the system.
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"We will look for all the elements, the deliberations, the certificates … that will allow us to go back to the counterfeiters."
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Trump could argue that any or all of the Trump trademarks are just a matter of protecting Trump's brand internationally from counterfeiters.
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In that universe, at least, a Pvendor glove might be as appealing a target for counterfeiters, or brand hijackers, as a Carhartt.
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Losses like that really hurt small businesses, to say nothing of the time and effort it takes to stamp out the counterfeiters.
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What's more, when the data does exist, the agencies want to keep it confidential, so that counterfeiters can't learn what they're doing.
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Due to toothless legislation and Native Americans' economic and political disenfranchisement, counterfeiters continued to produce misleading goods despite attempts to strengthen laws.
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And in February, Amazon launched a suite of new tools for brands and manufacturers that help them to proactively go after counterfeiters.
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While touting China's growing opportunities, Alibaba will also have to convince attendees that their original businesses and ideas are safe from counterfeiters.
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We also need to combat counterfeiters by choking off the supply of e-waste that comes from our own homes and businesses.
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Counterfeiters value e-waste from the US because it is relatively high quality – newer, with significant volumes of higher-value advanced components.
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They had been among the best counterfeiters in the world, and only recently have they been stymied in the counterfeiting of superdollars.
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" She added: "There is no other resale company doing more to remove fakes, and put counterfeiters out of business than The RealReal.
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The pill counterfeiters take the trouble to get the shape and color right and even reproduce the manufacturer's imprint on each pill.
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But VDMA said counterfeiters were becoming more brazen, increasingly copying not only a product's technical details but also its brand and appearance.
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They would be much less willing to take chances and counterfeiters would have a harder time landing their products in wholesaling networks.
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If so, that campaign could be seen as a big win for the Secret Service, the American agency tasked with battling counterfeiters.
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Italian fashion house Dolce & Gabbana is famous for refusing to prosecute counterfeiters, because they think counterfeits ultimately increase the desirability of the brand.
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Hermes is a popular target of luxury goods counterfeiters and recently participated in a counterfeiting sting operation against two of its own employees.
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"Under our Zero Tolerance Policy, WowWee is aggressively pursuing counterfeiters that are manufacturing and/or selling counterfeit products," the company told CNBC Friday.
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One way counterfeiters get their items on e-commerce sites is hijacking well-known brands by duping the U.S. Patent and Trade Office.
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Officials wanted to rebrand a place derided as a source of migrant laborers and unfairly tarnished as a land of thieves and counterfeiters.
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What is the currency of India, which the nation's government suddenly changed to stop counterfeiters but caused a series of problems in doing so?
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As counterfeiters have got better at producing copies, the number of fakes has grown to one in 30 coins in circulation, the mint reckons.
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Now, the company has announced that a federal court granted the company a temporary restraining order over the accounts, and froze the counterfeiters' PayPals.
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Because many counterfeiters try to promote their services through spammy behavior, we're able to quickly remove this type of content, even without a report.
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While Converse could be awarded monetary damages through its civil suits, an exclusion order from the trade commission offers sweeping protections against future counterfeiters.
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Counterfeiters have sold faulty or discounted versions of authentic goods on Amazon, prompting lawsuits, including one from Apple Inc, against merchants on the site.
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Kenner modeled The Counterfeiters and The Pound Era on Pound's Cantos, a fragmented epic that combines lyrical observation and radical juxtapositions with historical sweep.
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However, Emma Cohen, the company's co-founder, told BuzzFeed News on Monday that counterfeiters flooding websites like Amazon and eBay are creating an issue.
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The counterfeiters have benefited from the fact that they're so rare and valuable that they sleeve them and it makes it hard to tell.
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Counterfeiters will frequently make cheap versions of popular or easily-copied items that they can sell for a lower price than the legitimate versions.
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The government regularly redesigns paper currency to frustrate counterfeiters, but the people honored on the bills have remained the same for nearly a century.
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Counterfeiters will turn a few thousand dollars into $10 million by buying fentanyl powder — often purchased from Chinese labs — and a pill press online.
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Juul already restricts all online sales of its products to its own website, and is fighting counterfeiters who sell fake Juuls all over the internet.
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No doubt the counterfeiters are trying to capitalize on popular tech trends, with wearables and hoverboards being some of the hottest current consumer tech markets.
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As for the counterfeiters, most estimates of the value of fake rupees are in the tens of millions of dollars, out of $250bn in circulation.
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The American recycling industry has the capabilities to ensure safe, secure processing of these materials, which will keep them out of the hands of counterfeiters.
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The counterfeiters have masqueraded as retail chains like Dollar Tree and Foot Locker, big department stores like Dillard's and Nordstrom, online product bazaars like Zappos.
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While alchemy is today considered unscientific, several alchemy techniques were precursors to modern chemical engineering—and Medieval DIY alchemists were often successful forgers and counterfeiters.
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So we're working in partnership with brands, conducting 24/7 surveillance on our platform, and working offline with law enforcement to go after the counterfeiters.
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"Counterfeiters have followed consumers, and it is clear more must be done to combat the rising trend in online sales of counterfeit products," said Rep.
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The source said counterfeiters appeared to have made more notes in smaller denominations because people usually paid less attention to these than they would large denominations.
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China's Alibaba (BABA) has sued two vendors, accusing them of selling fake Swarovski watches on its Taobao e-commerce platform, its first legal action against counterfeiters.
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"Counterfeiters prey on poorer countries more than their richer counterparts, with up to 30 times greater penetration of fakes in the supply chain," said the report.
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Italy has had big problems with food fraud lately, from green-painted olives forged by counterfeiters to shredded parmesan cheese with a surprisingly heavy wood content.
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Meanwhile, Lopreiato bears the costs of workers' compensation, product quality control, commercial insurance, mortgage payments and patent management fees all so counterfeiters can act as freeloaders.
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Any time a new gadget becomes popular, counterfeiters around the world start to crank out fakes and get them into the country as quickly as possible.
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As CNBC has been reporting for the past two years, U.S. sellers have taken to policing the Amazon Marketplace to protect their intellectual property from counterfeiters.
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Alibaba said the legal action would not be its last, and it had already compiled a list of counterfeiters against whom it would take similar actions.
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But that hasn't protected Mr. Hankerson from counterfeiters, who peddle cheap copies of his creations on internet marketplaces run by Alibaba, China's largest e-commerce company.
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When she resumed, in 2013, she decided to source her components only from American suppliers, hoping to make it harder for counterfeiters to replicate her products.
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Amazon has been taking to steps to crack down on counterfeiters, filing lawsuits on Thursday against sellers of fake Vera Bradley handbags and Otterbox phone cases.
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In his Inferno, he describes a ditch in the Eighth Circle of Hell where alchemists, counterfeiters, and liars are subjected to the burn of an eternal itch.
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That means working with law enforcement and government agencies to find and stop counterfeiters, and suing companies infringing on Juul's trademarks or patents, the blog post says.
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Tsai said that it's a constant "cat and mouse game" with the counterfeiters, but that the company is proactively removing bad listings at a stepped up rate.
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To be fair, Instagram isn't the only tech company helping the counterfeit industry grow; counterfeiters on Instagram, for example, are taking payment via WeChat, PayPal, and Venmo.
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Writing out "Hewlett-Packard" with individual embossed letters on each and every laptop was a great idea to thwart counterfeiters, but it required complex tooling and machinery.
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Alibaba has long faced accusations that its online platforms are a haven for counterfeiters, including in lawsuits by luxury brands such as Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent.
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She lives downtown, and one weekend was strolling through the wholesale fashion district, where counterfeiters mix pop culture and streetwear and sell "Commes Des Fuck Down" shirts.
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Holders of intellectual-property rights argue that fakery discourages innovation, diddles the taxman and funds terrorism (though hard evidence of links between terrorists and counterfeiters is elusive).
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Counterfeiters started obtaining empty bottles of expensive wine and filling them with plonk, and even created ersatz wine by mixing sugar water with artificial color and flavor.
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Charmed by Davenport's Max Beerbohm–style cartoons of writers, Kenner recruits him to illustrate two of his critical books, The Stoic Comedians (1962) and The Counterfeiters (1968).
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A company rebrand, celebrity partnerships, and product placement have all played a role in making Canada Goose a hot commodity for thieves, counterfeiters, and the general public.
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This report puts both counterfeiters and those within the e-commerce system clearly on notice that they must step up to the monitoring, detection and enforcement plate.
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EBay has been dealing with counterfeiters since its early days, and Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba is regularly accused of enabling fakery in its Taobao and Tmall marketplaces.
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Counterfeiters can make parts in one country, assemble a product in a second and package it in a third—without stepping outside the law in any of them.
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While some unauthorized tenants are families seeking shelter, police officers here say they are more frequently finding chop shops, drug dealers and counterfeiters operating out of foreclosed homes.
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But the counterfeiters have also mimicked companies that do have an official presence in the App Store, hoping to capitalize on consumer confusion about which ones are real.
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"The prevalence of counterfeiters has increased dramatically over the last year consistent with JUUL's rise in the marketplace," Gerald Masoudi, Chief Legal Officer at JUUL Labs told TechCrunch.
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"By taking this course of action, we are, in effect, leaving the Amazon marketplace to counterfeiters, fake suppliers and unauthorized sellers with whom we have no relationships," he wrote.
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For example, it has used big data analytics to identify and block problematic sellers, and worked closely with law enforcement to shut down factories and send counterfeiters to prison.
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The Chinese company has long faced accusations that its online platforms are a haven for counterfeiters, including in lawsuits by luxury brands such as Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent.
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So circumventing Juul's commerce system means that the counterfeiters are actually undermining the company's very intentional efforts to keep the cute lil' vapes out of the hands of kids.
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The industry does not have a standard for authentication of luxury goods and determining the authenticity of a product is increasingly difficult as counterfeiters get better at producing knockoffs.
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Because counterfeiters may not be capable of replicating the exact features, their green cards would probably not pass official inspection at United States ports of entry, such as airports.
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The Silicon Valley company, which is about 1/400th the size of Amazon, has improved its watermark on high-resolution images, making it virtually impossible for counterfeiters to take them.
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Alibaba has been dogged for years by accusations that its online shopping platforms were conduits for counterfeiters and critics say it has not done nearly enough to stop the problem.
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Alibaba's comments come at a time when the Chinese e-commerce company has started cracking down on counterfeiters amid persistent allegations that fake goods are widely available on its sites.
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Even though it's likely that millions of people like her are using fake green cards, Morris said ICE's main focus is bringing down the counterfeiters, not going after individual immigrants.
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A big problem with that system, though, is that a popular product invites copycats, counterfeiters, and scammers who can win the Buy Box by selling knockoffs at a lower price.
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Just weeks after revealing its first court case against counterfeiters, Alibaba has again pledged to increase its focus on fake goods after it announced a partnership with 20 global consumer brands.
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It's a troubling sign for Amazon, which has been overrun by counterfeiters in recent years after the company opened up its marketplace to sellers from across the globe, most notably China.
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In the blog post, Hopkins wrote about his experience dealing with Chinese counterfeiters that flooded the marketplace with copies of his product, killing his brand reputation and sales along the way.
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"We look forward to continuing to working with Alibaba and others to break the supply chain of counterfeit goods, and create an environment where counterfeiters can no longer hide," he added.
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A smooth dismount from years' worth of unprecedented interest rate manipulation is impossible due to the historic distortion of asset prices and record debt levels caused by these officially-sanctioned counterfeiters.
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Counterfeiters often serve lower-quality or tainted alcohol from reused brand-name bottles, Canlar said, so take note of faded, peeling labels on full bottles, a tell-tale sign of tampering.
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"We want to mete out to counterfeiters the punishment they deserve in order to protect brand owners," the statement quoted Zheng Junfang, Chief Platform Governance Officer of Alibaba Group, as saying.
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But that same openness allows some schemers and con artists — everyone from counterfeiters to price gougers — to take advantage of the platform in a way that Amazon can never fully stop.
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Mr. Ji's work has earned him the enmity of counterfeiters and their thugs, who he says have beaten him up, bound his hands and feet, and telephoned him with death threats.
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As counterfeiters have become more sophisticated, the Bank of England and other authorities have had to continually update their currency by adding holograms, watermarks and using special paper to print notes.
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These companies spend tens, sometimes hundreds, of millions of dollars per year on advertising campaigns to elevate their brand image — and nearly as much fighting unauthorized sellers and counterfeiters to protect it.
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The system through which Amazon sellers list products also makes it possible for counterfeiters to essentially hijack an established product's listing, and sell their lower-quality, ripped-off versions to unsuspecting buyers.
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Apple, a company notorious for its high level of quality control and its obsessive approach to marketing, also likely prefers no other company resell its products, and it of course despises counterfeiters.
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In 2011, to ward off counterfeiters selling shorts and hats emblazoned with the same four capital letters, Mr Brunetti applied for a trademark from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO).
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Currency controls can certainly hinder large-scale black money operators, including counterfeiters and financiers of terror networks, but they don't address the conditions that allow hidden wealth to flourish, economists told CNBC.
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ROME (Reuters) - Police have seized hundreds of thousands of euros worth of fake champagne in a workshop near Padua, northern Italy, with counterfeiters looking to pass off sparkling wine as Moet & Chandon.
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Through these raids in recent months, HMCL has seized over 2,75,000 spurious spare parts & counterfeit labels and FIRs have been filed against all the counterfeiters at respective police stations in each state.
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And it can be difficult to detect — the substance is colorless and odorless, and counterfeiters may put bad booze in brand-name bottles or mix it into discount "party punch" drink specials.
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Watch: Brazilian Plastic Surgery: Beauty on a Budget Jenner's Lip Kit is not the only makeup product targeted by counterfeiters, but it is one of the most recent examples of the phenomenon.
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"The suit will send a clear and deterring message that in addition to criminal law, counterfeiters will also face civil lawsuits for significant amounts," the Bank of Israel said in a separate statement.
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Printed for more than a hundred years on cotton paper, the 5-pound note now comes in polymer, a thin, flexible plastic film that makes it stronger, safer and more resistant to counterfeiters.
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One possible cause of this counterintuitive outcome is that counterfeiters can obtain a cardholder's PIN by pairing a skimming device with a pinhole camera near the numerical touchpad, rendering the static PIN ineffective.
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Modi's decision last month to scrap 500 rupee and 1,000 rupee banknotes at a stroke as part of a crackdown on tax dodgers and counterfeiters has left companies, farmers and households all suffering.
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We have recently taken a more holistic and technology-driven IPR-enforcement approach, deploying a new app designed to discern patterns in the data, and thereby enable us to better identify and pursue counterfeiters.
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According to Hopkins, this seller essentially commandeered the Anchor product listing for five days, but counterfeiters have been using the same method for over a month, with new sellers popping up every few weeks.
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If the $20 bill were under threat of counterfeiters, our can-do country would marshal the resources and brainpower to overcome any technical hurdles and come up with a secure note in a hurry.
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The plaintiffs said counterfeiters from China, Japan, Thailand and other countries are taking a "free ride" on their reputation and goodwill, while many consumers leave bad reviews about fake products on the hijacked pages.
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Nite Ize and Amazon are now looking to recover actual and statutory damages as a result of the counterfeiters' illegal business operations, along with other relief, including the ability to recover the defendants' profits.
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The firm sued two vendors in January who allegedly sold fake Swarovski watches on Taobao, marking its first legal action against counterfeiters, in which it claimed 1.4 million yuan in contract and goodwill violations.
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Lone counterfeiters used to run an operation in their homes, printing out stickers on a home printer to lay over cheap Magic cards in an attempt to pass them off as the real thing.
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With all the names, formulas, manufacturers, and counterfeiters of poppers in the world today, it's impossible to know exactly what you're ingesting and how much is too much when it comes to the drug.
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Though the size of the haul is impressive, though, the really alarming part is just how many different types of foods and drinks were involved—and how many ways counterfeiters have found to forge them.
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Invited press were asked to not post their credentials online, lest counterfeiters attempt to forge fake ones; I was told that if I did, the Chinese government had threatened to shut the entire show down.
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In November 2018, shortly after the company announced it was pulling flavors from shelves, JUUL filed patent claims against counterfeiters in the United States, China, and Uruguay that were selling "JUUL-compatible" copy-cat pods.
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If he seemed to be giving credit to the factories that churn out fakes, he quickly changed tone, making a fist over his heart as he vowed that Alibaba would win the war against counterfeiters.
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The toy company that makes all those PAW Patrol toys your kids, nieces and nephews love ... claims Chinese counterfeiters are taking a huge bite out of its bottom line, and duping millions of young fans.
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Counterfeiters usually targeted shops, stalls at wet markets, convenience stores and supermarkets in their efforts to slip the notes into circulation, officers said, since shop owners and employees were often too busy to double-check money.
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Felix and other officials said that the Treasury could not have released a "concept" design in 2020, as Lew promised, because it would have given counterfeiters a decade to replicate the bill, according to the Post.
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"It has become very easy for counterfeiters to make bottles and packages look genuine, but the reality is they are often filled with laced, adulterated or fake pills that are dangerous to patients," the group warned.
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Expensive machinery and highly-guarded proprietary chemical recipes are required, and even if counterfeiters are able to reproduce the invisible watermark one day, the cost of doing so might make it simply not worth the effort.
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"The U.S. government very carefully regulates the type of gold that that coin is made from, and the U.S. government and the U.S. Department of the Treasury aggressively prosecutes counterfeiters of the American Eagle," Travers said.
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"The decision ignores the real work Alibaba has done to protect [intellectual property] rights holders and assist law enforcement to bring counterfeiters to justice," Michael Evans, president of Alibaba Group, said in a statement in December.
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Another seller who had been battling counterfeiters of his childproof locks and outlet covers received a threat in Chinese saying that, while it is hard to build a listing like his, it would be easy to destroy.
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Last month, the UK branch of Opson raided a vodka distillery where counterfeiters were filling empty bottles of various branded vodkas with a fake version they'd made with window cleaner (filtered to remove its trademark blue color).
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Allstar, Ideavillage and Ontel said they have lost profits because Amazon has let its product display pages be "hijacked" by counterfeiters, which offer impossibly low prices and confuse consumers into thinking their products are the real thing.
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Nike and other major brands had been plagued by counterfeiters on Amazon, and Nike's partnership with the e-commerce giant suggested more brands that have resisted the pull of direct sales on Amazon could get on board.
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Last year, it faced criticism from the Chinese government on the issue, and in May, it was suspended from a United States-based coalition against fake goods after accusations it had not done enough to stop counterfeiters.
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For manufacturers in America, this can mean that it's cheaper for Chinese competitors (and counterfeiters) to ship products to customers located anywhere in the United States than for U.S. companies to ship their products across the street.
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His presidency has yielded more — and more elaborate — coins that are shinier, flashier and even bigger, setting off a boom for coin manufacturers, counterfeiters and collectors, with one official Trump challenge coin recently fetching $1,000 on eBay.
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As Chinese companies have begun producing more advanced products and gaining valuable intellectual property of their own, Beijing has sought to bolster its trademark law, increasing the damages awarded to companies in infringement cases and fining counterfeiters.
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When Ruth Brons has a break between teaching her students in New Jersey how to play the violin, she's trying to find new ways to defend her small business against counterfeiters thousands of miles away in China.
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This is a fraction of the 15.44 trillion rupees in 500- and 1,000-rupee notes that were circulating before Prime Minister Narendra Modi abolished them last month, in a surprise move targeting counterfeiters and people holding undeclared wealth.
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"Amazon continues to invest and fight counterfeiters on all fronts—from developing technology to proactively prevent counterfeits, to working with brands, leaders in the public sector and law enforcement to hold bad actors accountable," a company spokesperson said.
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His memoir, "The Devil's Workshop," published in 1983 (an English translation was published in 2009), was turned into a film, "The Counterfeiters," directed by the Austrian filmmaker Stefan Ruzowitzky, with August Diehl playing the role of Mr. Burger.
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India, which has recorded some of the world's strongest recent growth, is experiencing a shock to consumption from the government's decision in early November to withdraw larger currency notes from circulation to crack down on tax dodgers and counterfeiters.
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I also hope he starts printing dollar signs on sturdy burlap bags so bank robbers, bookies, counterfeiters, bootleggers, jewel thieves, con men, and other old-school criminals can finally have appropriately marked bags to put their dirty money in.
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While our efforts in intellectual property enforcement have been effective in sharply reducing counterfeit activity, we also have found ourselves engaged in a game of "whack-a-mole" with counterfeiters who go to great lengths to hide their true identity.
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It's a phenomenon born out of the current dual booms of technology and endurance events—and the very tools bib counterfeiters are using to circumvent race regulations are also being used to bust, ban, or—in some cases—publicly shame cheaters.
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Price: Li notes that while counterfeiters are starting to become savvier — pricing items closer to the cost of the original product so they don't draw too many red flags — if the deal seems too good to be true, it probably is.
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Amazon along with Boulder company Nite Ize, a maker of specialty lights and phone mounts under the STEELIE brand, filed suit on Wednesday in a Seattle federal court against a group of counterfeiters who have been ripping off Nite Ize products.
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Last week, Amazon offered to police the many counterfeiters that sell fake Nike shoes on its site as a bargaining chip to get Nike to agree, for the first time, to offer a full line of its products to Amazon.
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In early November, India scrapped the 500- and 1,000-rupee notes as part of a crackdown on tax dodgers and counterfeiters but allowed the use of the banned currency for select purposes such as buying fuel for automobiles and cooking.
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The new system will "help protect manufacturers from counterfeiters and other bad actors operating in countries like China, which have been exploiting a dangerous and unfair system," Jay Timmons, president of the National Association of Manufacturers, said in a statement.
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"In allowing these products to secure a foothold on your marketplace, you are not only supporting these companies in their endeavor to increase youth demand and access, but also assisting profiteering counterfeiters seeking to cause teens further harm," the senators wrote.
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According to Fortune, the court ruling isn't final and it might not do much to fight piracy anyhow since the majority of counterfeiters don't use comical misspellings to get listed on marketplaces, but simply copy the designs wholesale to an inferior standard.
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How criminals ran a fake U.S. embassy in Ghana – for a decade How criminals ran a fake U.S. embassy in Ghana – for a decade World counterfeiters, take note: A crime ring in Ghana may have just raised the bar for audacious forgeries.
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While emerging counterfeit-detection technologies are improving our ability to identify counterfeits once they are in the supply chain, the counterfeiters' processes constantly evolve so it is challenging for even a trained eye to detect the better ones without significant testing capabilities.
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But booming e-commerce sales are adding to the flood of products agencies must monitor, and counterfeiters are increasingly learning how to make harder-to-spot fakes or finding new ways around the systems that were put in place to prevent fraudulent products.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's Alibaba Group Holding Ltd has sued two vendors it says sold fake Swarovski watches on its Taobao e-commerce platform, its first legal action against counterfeiters amid persistent allegations that fake goods are widely available on its sites.
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The text for the lawsuit itself is dense (the full document is embedded below), but Allstar and the other ASOTV brands allege that counterfeiters are abusing their product images and intellectual property, selling products as if they are real, even though they are fake.
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Recruited by the C.I.A. after joining the U.S. Navy in 1973, Simmons became part of an ''outside paramilitary special operations group'' and spearheaded ''deep cover intel ops'' against the world's most dangerous terrorists, drug traffickers, arms smugglers, counterfeiters, cyberterrorists and industrial and economic espionage artists.
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LVMH (Celine, Dior, Givenchy, Louis Vuitton and others) said last year that the business of Amazon "does not fit" with its brands, and Swatch backed out of a deal to sell on Amazon in 2017 when the retailer refused to implement proactive protections against counterfeiters.
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The company is best known for a book called The Sanford Guide to Antimicrobial Therapy, which is extremely popular, is commonly used by doctors to prescribe various drugs, and has been ripped off by counterfeiters regularly for the past two years, the Times reports.
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But the popular piglet is also the object of another sort of unwanted attention: the registration of trademarks related to the brand by foreign "squatters", who hope to benefit as counterfeiters or competitors, or to extract a hefty fee when its true owners lay claim to it.
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Modi's decision to scrap high-value banknotes as part of a crackdown on tax dodgers and counterfeiters removed 86 percent of the currency in circulation virtually overnight, denting consumption in a country where the vast majority of people still rely on cash for day-to-day activities.
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Click here to view original GIFAs counterfeiters get better and better at faking expensive Swiss watches, the watchmakers themselves now have a new tool to help distinguish their genuine creations from fakes: nanoscopic watermarks that are invisible to the naked human eye, and impossible to fake.
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"They'll [the counterfeiters] communicate with the Patent and Trademark Office as if they are the actual brand-holders, in an attempt to change the contact information and things along those lines, to make them seem like they are in control when they're certainly not," Shapiro said.
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In a separate statement released on Friday afternoon, Len Olijar, the director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, said the bureau "was never going to unveil a note design in 2020," adding that doing so this far in advance of going into circulation would aid counterfeiters.
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"Consumers should be able to trust that what they see and purchase online is what they will get, but counterfeiters continue to join platforms with ease and masquerade as reliable sellers in order to infect American households with dangerous and unsafe counterfeit products," Mr. Nadler said.
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Some even find that their Chinese name has already been trademarked, says Matthew Dresden of Harris Bricken, a law firm, either by their own distributors, competitors seeking to block its entry, counterfeiters hoping to pass as the company, or squatters intending to sell the trademark to the highest bidder.
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"We are in the process of working with large e-marketplace operators on a coordinated strategy and action plan to identify and remove counterfeiters and price gougers and to refer them to the appropriate law enforcement authorities," Roman wrote in a letter Tuesday to Attorney General William Barr.
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While educator and parental concern has focused on Juul, the reality is that the market for vaping devices and the liquids that fill them is vast and filled with counterfeiters and do-it-yourselfers, making it hard for regulators and scientists to home in on a specific product.
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While educator and parental concern has focused on Juul, the reality is that the market for vaping devices and the liquids that fill them is vast and filled with counterfeiters and do-it-yourselfers, making it hard for regulators and scientists to home in on a specific product.
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When sellers get in trouble for customer complaints or attacks from counterfeiters, the solution is often to more fully meld with Amazon — to enroll in its fulfillment program, to purchase Amazon's labels to make sure product isn't being diverted, or even make their brand exclusive to Amazon, which brings special protections.
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" In a response at the time, Alibaba said the Trade Representative's report "ignores the real work Alibaba has done to protect IP rights holders and assist law enforcement to bring counterfeiters to justice" and questioned if it was "based on the actual facts or was influenced by the current political climate.
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Just as counterfeiters must painstakingly address each security feature on a hundred-dollar bill—holograms, raised printing, color-shifting ink, and so on—so must a media manipulator solve myriad technical problems, some of them statistical in nature and invisible to the eye, in order to create an undetectable fake.
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As those parties battled over the rights to the idea, a scrappy group of importers and counterfeiters sprung up in the void to fill the viral Internet's new insatiable demand for the product with near-imitations — companies like Swagway, PhunkeeDuck and countless others which leveraged the power of China's huge manufacturing sector.
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"Amazon is making money hand over fist from counterfeiters, and they've done about as little as possible for as long as possible to address the issue," said Chris Johnson, an attorney at Johnson & Pham LLP, which focuses on intellectual property and brand enforcement and represents clients including Forever 2750, Adobe and OtterBox.
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January 2014 Liz Claiborne, which sold much of its portfolio and changed its name in 2012 to Fifth & Pacific, rebranded itself as Kate Spade & Co. The company, long a target of counterfeiters, also developed a strong presence at outlet malls and department store discount shelves, raising concerns among analysts that it was devaluing its reputation.
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To be clear and avoid confusion, today's Storefronts launch is not connected to Amazon's other Storefronts product — which is a way for sellers who are also the owners of a particular brand or trademark to take control of how its listed and whose products come up in searches first (or at all), downgrading unauthorised sellers and counterfeiters.
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Juul Labs has taken action to reverse this trend, including a $30 million investment in youth prevention, removal of non-tobacco-flavored nicotine pods from retail stores, deleting its social media, enforcing stricter age verification for online sales, an offensive legal push against counterfeiters and copycats and a new $10 million ad campaign focused on attracting smokers to "make the switch" to Juul.
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"One of the prime examples of that is the hoverboards that came onto the scene a couple Christmases ago, where the counterfeiters — actually the hazardous devices that are being marketed as genuine products — got to market before the actual genuine product did, and obviously those products were dangerous and could catch fire," said Steven Shapiro, unit chief for the FBI's intellectual property rights unit.
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JUUL said that that process is about to get even stricter: by the end of the year, JUUL will also require two-factor authentication to create an account, and it will even use "a real-time photo requirement to match a user's face against an uploaded I.D." JUUL said it's also continuing its fight against counterfeiters and unauthorized sellers in its attempt to ensure its own site (with age verification) is the only place people can buy the product.
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"With the rise of popular online market places, counterfeiters have greater access to the market and can easily sell their phony products directly to consumers," said Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin HatchOrrin Grant HatchTrump to award racing legend Roger Penske with Presidential Medal of Freedom Trump awards Presidential Medal of Freedom to economist, former Reagan adviser Arthur Laffer Second ex-Senate staffer charged in aiding doxxing of GOP senators MORE (R-Utah) during a hearing by his panel on protecting online consumers.
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"With the rise of popular online marketplaces, counterfeiters have greater access to the market and can easily sell their phony products directly to consumers," said Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin HatchOrrin Grant HatchTrump to award racing legend Roger Penske with Presidential Medal of Freedom Trump awards Presidential Medal of Freedom to economist, former Reagan adviser Arthur Laffer Second ex-Senate staffer charged in aiding doxxing of GOP senators MORE (R-Utah) during a hearing by his panel on protecting online consumers.
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