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Bogus Apps Collect Private Data
With the popularity and convenience of shopping on-line, it should be of no surprise that counterfeiters would find new ways to cheat consumers and damage brand names.
counterfeits
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Counterfeit Make-Up: Is Beauty Worth the Price You May Ultimately Pay?
In February 2017, David Gauvey Herbert wrote for Bloomberg Businessweek about the rise in counterfeits in the cosmetic industry. Global seizures of counterfeit perfume and cosmetics jumped 25 percent...
Brand Protection
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Effective Tips To Manage Rogue Websites & Online Infringements
As a brand owner, you most like are aware that that your brand is being abused online in a variety of ways. Your brand may be the target of counterfeiters, fake apps, fake or damaging blogs, rogue...
counterfeits
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Educating Consumers to the Risk of Counterfeit Products
Most brand owners grapple with the question of alerting their consumers to the fact that your brand has been counterfeited. On the surface, one might think that it is an obvious decision to alert...
Brand Protection
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How Do You Measure the Effectiveness of Your Brand Protection Program?
Recently, Coraline Zhang, legal counsel at DH Anti counterfeiting, made an interesting comparison between Marketing and Brand Protection. She described brand protection as very similar to marketing....
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Fake Reviews Become the Target of Amazon
Last year, Amazon launched an attack against over 1,000 individuals who are offering their services of providing fake four and five star reviews on-line. The individuals had mainly used the website...
Social Media
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Social Media Fraud: Creating Fake “Likes”
Based on a recent article that appeared in World Intellectual Property Review in March, 2016, Stuart Fuller of NetNames has coined a phrase “Fliking” which he is trying to get entered into the Oxford...
counterfeits
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Counterfeits in Food and Beverage
I read two articles about counterfeits, recently, that really caught my attention. It wasn’t that finding an article about counterfeits was unusual or unexpected, it was the type of products involved...
Brand Protection
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New gTLD Sites Add New Challenges to Brand Owners
Anyone involved in on-line activity, whether it for selling, marketing, brand protection, or domain management are aware of the new top level domains which were introduced in 2013 and are unfolding...
Brand Protection
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Beware: Advanced Brand Threats Require New Defenses
It's as if not a day goes by when there isn't news about some national brand getting hit with a data breach. High profile breaches at large chains such as Target and Home Depot saw the records of...
