Our team of experienced consultants, with knowledge of IPR law is trained to examine our clients’ merchandise. We carry out proactive investigations identifying those selling, importing and manufacturing our clients’ goods; we are not just a reactive organisation. We work collectively for a number of clients in order to keep costs to a minimum by jointly taking actions against the counterfeiters and their traders aiming to put them out of business by seizing all their stock and assisting with prosecutions.
During 2009 we seized approximately £15,000,000 million worth of counterfeit clothing and merchandise jointly on behalf of our clients nationwide, we have continued to cultivate a number of good quality informants at the heart of these criminal activities whose accurate information has assisted us and the authorities to bring about these results, we have in actual fact been commended by the authorities on a number of occasions for this valuable intelligence. We carried out a number of pro-active operations, involving observations and surveillance and as a result of which we raided 33 x retail outlets; 14 x wholesalers / internet warehouses; 41 x markets; conducted 55 x authentication examinations on behalf of UK, and European Customs authorities, 15 x authentication examinations on behalf of UK Police Forces and 155 x authentication examinations on behalf of various trading standards authorities all over UK.
We have conducted covert investigations throughout the world and provided the judicial authorities with our evidence thus making their task easier in taking legal action against these perpetrators. Our methods in evidence gathering have been highly commended by the courts in Switzerland and we have an excellent working relationship with the authorities in China, South Korea, Japan, Turkey and European countries.
In the United Kingdom, we have developed a close relationship with the Trading Standards Service and Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs. We also act as a point of contact for these authorities should they seize counterfeits of our client’s merchandise, making authentication examinations and providing witness statements. Our comprehensive reports at the conclusion of such investigations have also assisted specialist patent lawyers in taking other legal actions, gaining compensation and restitution for our clients.
We have developed a worldwide network of intelligence, which is regularly updated from our many sources within the industry and provide our clients with up to date information in order to help protect their IPR.