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• Grey market devices boost declining 2009 mobile phone sales

  
  The Mobile Fun Blog — Authority: 145
  By Joe Wilcox , Betanews Worldwide Mobile phone sales will nudge down in 2009 compared to 2008 rather than sharply decline. In forecast data released by Gartner today, global handset sales will reach 1.214 billion units, down 0.67 percent from 2008. Three months earlier, Gartner forecast a 3.7 percent ...
  11 hours ago

• Counterfeit golf gang found guilty as charged

  
  TameBay — Authority: 135
  $4 to $6 billion of counterfeit golf equipment is sold annually – that’s the estimate of Mike Rider, Sr. VP and General Counsel, Callaway Golf, as he welcomed the verdict of Snaresbrook Crown Court who found a gang guilty of trading fake goods on eBay. In the five years up to 2008 the team sold millions of ...
  1 day ago

• An illegal whisky gives you more than a dishonest handover

  
  IP tango — Authority: 421
  Bogota, Colombia: el tiempo newspaper reports that yesterday about 1,000 counterfeited bottles of whisky were found in a house. The bottles are said to be from well-known foreign trade marks. According to preliminary investigations, the bottles are original and were purchased in recycling centres. Moreover, it is ...
  2 days ago

• Perfume industry – a Mexican business that does not smell right!

  
  IP tango — Authority: 421
  In Mexico, the volume of counterfeit perfumes is superior to genuine ones. According to William Hidalgo , National Chamber of Industry of the Perfumes and Cosmetics ( Canipec )’s president, reveals that data collected from suppliers of raw materials and packaging, producers, traders and official sources indicated ...
  1 week ago

• NYPD Confiscates Citys Rotexes

  
  Joe. My. God. — Authority: 705
  If havent gotten your dad that holiday Rotex yet, it might be too late. Local news is reporting that the NYPD has shut down a large swath of Chinatown today in a massive crackdown on counterfeit luxury handbags, watches, fragrances, etc. A strip of stalls selling counterfeit goods in Chinatown were raided Tuesday ...
  1 week ago

• Burberry Awarded $4 Million in Statutory Damages

  
  The Trademark Blog — Authority: 120
  Burberry obtains judgement of $4 million in statutory damages, based on $1 million per type of counterfeit good, against serial counterfeiter. Decision Burberry Statutory Damages
  1 week ago

• Those weirdly persistent counterfeiting statistics

  
  Felix Salmon — Authority: 748
  Renee Richardson Gosline has done some research which, if it turns out to be true, could well show that the cost to established businesses of counterfeit luxury goods is actually negative : In a working paper she just finished this fall, “The Real Value of Fakes,” Gosline interviewed hundreds of consumers who ...
  1 week ago

• Top 12 Rare Coin Buybacks – PCGS Puts its Money Where Its Mouth Is!

  
  Coin Collecting News — Authority: 517
  The following is from the PCGS website about Updates to the PCGS Guarantee. This is the first time we know of where one of the major grading services has been so forthcoming as to buybacks under their guarantee, and In Our Optinion, PCGS should be commended for its transparency and openness. For 24 years we’ve ...
  1 week ago

• Counterfeits abound online

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 166
  Police have a warning for shoppers hoping for online bargains this holiday season: beware of counterfeits lurking in your stocking.
  1 week ago

• Cancúnterfeit conference opens

  
  IPKat - news and fun for everyone! — Authority: 520
  Nows the time for all enterprising counterfeiters to get busy with their felonious craft, since so many of the worlds experts in dealing with them are in Cancún, Mexico, for a midwinter break. According to the joint press release released by WIPO on behalf of IMPI, INTERPOL, WCO, WIPO, BASCAP and INTA: "Senior ...
  2 weeks ago

• Instructing your society: how to avoid illegal medicines

  
  IP tango — Authority: 421
  Peru - the National Institute for the Defence of Competition and Protection of Intellectual Property ( INDECOPI in Spanish), destroyed almost two tonnes of expired and empty packaging of medicines (click here for the INDECOPIs news). The campaign started back in 2007 by the INDECOPI together with pharmacies. It ...
  2 weeks ago

• México: Es la piratería más rentable que el narcotráfico?

  
  IP tango — Authority: 421
  Según los cálculos de la American Chamber la respuesta no es solo afirmativa, sino qué, la piratería dobla prácticamente los ingresos del narcotráfico. Difícil de creer, si, pero un claro reflejo de la realidad. Según la encuesta un 76 de cada 100 mexicanos compran mercancía pirata. El impacto de las ...
  2 weeks ago

• Philip Morris v. Various Groceries Selling Cigarettes

  
  The Trademark Blog — Authority: 120
  This is a complaint Philip Morris brought against six grocery stores and ten John Does, for selling counterfeit cigarettes. Whats interesting is how the Court will handle the joinder of these defendants - I did not see allegations in the complaint of any sort of connection between them (apart from the allegation that ...
  3 weeks ago

• Chilean wine does not escape piracy

  
  IP tango — Authority: 421
  Wine piracy appears to be a common phenomenon for markets such as China and Europe. The Chilean newspaper El Mercurio reports that 30% of European wines sold worldwide are counterfeit. The amount rises abruptly in China, where it is reported that 70% of imported wines served in restaurants are counterfeit. This ...
  4 weeks ago

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