Tag archive: counterfeit

Announced earlier today out of Nevada, Judge Kent Dawson ordered that luxury goods designer Chanel now has the legal right to seize domain names of over 700 sites that are attempting to sell counterfeit Chanel products. These domain names can be taken over by Chanel and transferred to domain registrar GoDaddy. All pages would then be redirected to an online notice of the seizure.  The federal judge also ordered that all search engines and… Read More

The Chinese aren't exactly know for their respect for intellectual property rights. Just take a trip to Chinatown in New York City, and you'll see an endless chain of tiny stores selling knockoff Gucci bags, fake Chanel sunglasses and forged Calvin Klein belts. And we're all too well aware of the bogus gadgets that too frequently get pawned off as the real thing on gadget blogs. If you actually go to China, however, the scale… Read More

The Office of the United States Trade Representative has released an unusual “Out-of-Cycle Review of Notorious Markets” (PDF) that names top sites, services, and marketplaces around the world that specialize in pirated and counterfeit content. Although being named in the report carries no threat of action, the report hopes to call attention to illegal activities by naming offenders and encouraging law enforcement to crack down.… Read More

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has released findings from a study by MarkMonitor, a brand protection firm. The study perused the Web for sites hosting illegal copies of 10 major digital brands (movies, music, etc) and found that 43 major sites that sold digital pirated goods generated more than 146 million visits every day. That's about 53 billion visits a year. More interesting, visits to digital pirating sites in one day (146 million) are… Read More

eBay is a little poorer today. The giant Internet auction site has been fined 20,000 Euros (about $31,000) for allowing counterfeit goods to be sold through its auctions after a suit was brought in France by luxury goods maker Hermes. That could set a precedent for future suits, which could include those brought by Tiffany and Louis Vuitton. eBay has honoured requests to remove counterfeit items from auctions. However, in many ways… Read More

U.S. and EU officials are promising to crack down on the manufacturing, distribution, and sales of counterfeit computer components after seizing more than 360,000 fake items worth more than $1.3 billion during a two-week period in a joint operation run at the end of 2007. Seized materials bore the trademarks of major manufacturers including Cisco, Intel, and Philips. Officials would not say whether they knew importers were knowingly… Read More

The LG Statement reads: “These counterfeit batteries are not manufactured by LG, but illegally bear the LG trademark and closely resemble actual LG batteries. LG is working closely with government agencies to identify and prosecute all sources of these unlawfully counterfeited batteries. In a handful of instances, these counterfeit batteries have ruptured while installed in a TM-510 cell phone, frequently when also… Read More

Maksym Kovalchuk, 25, of Ternopil, Ukraine, was nabbed Tuesday at an ice cream parlor. He was taken into custody with the aid of Royal Thai Police on a criminal complaint filed in San Jose, Calif., in 2000. Thai authorities identified Kovalchuk as Maksym Vysochanskyy. In the complaint, Kovalchuk is charged with trafficking in counterfeit goods, copyright infringement, money laundering and possession of unauthorized credit card information.… Read More