The Government has published a report that reveals in stark terms the impact of counterfeiting and the sale of black market goods in Manchester. Ministerial Foreword This Government is committed to protecting the public from the insidious threat posed by organised crime, and is fighting against its lifeblood – the black market economy. This cause […]
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Annual IP Crime Report 2014 -2015
The latest IP crime report 2014 to 2015 was published on 24 September 2015. The report highlights current and emerging threats surrounding counterfeiting and piracy, including those conducted via the internet. It also contains statistical data and enforcement activities from UK law enforcement agencies such as trading standards, police and HM Revenue and Customs along with […]
National Markets Group Launches Inaugural Awards for Tackling IP Crime
At the Chartered Institute of Trading Standards conference in Bournemouth last week (Wed 1 July 2015), Leon Livermore, CEO of the CTSI presented the inaugural National Markets Group Awards. The National Markets Group for IP Protection (NMG), which consists of representatives from industry, enforcement and government, works in partnership to reduce the availability of counterfeit […]
Counterfeits Seized and Nine Arrested at Bourn Bank Holiday Market
Surelock, together with other trade mark representatives / members of the Anti-Counterfeiting Group, http://www.a-cg.org assisted Cambridgeshire County Council Trading Standards and Police in a major enforcement at Bourn Bank Holiday Market, where stall holders were observed selling counterfeit merchandise during the day, then vans were stopped and searched at the end of the day. Many thousands […]
Biggest Overhaul of Consumer Rights in a Generation
Consumer Rights Act 2015 has been given Royal Assent. Under the Act, consumers and businesses will have clearer rights and responsibilities. These include: new rights for consumers to get a repair or a replacement of faulty digital content such as online film, games, music downloads and e-books. Currently the law is unclear and has failed […]
£25,000 Bill for eBay Trader Convicted of Selling Fake Cosmetics
An eBay seller from Exmouth who was convicted of supplying fake and unsafe cosmetic products has been ordered to pay almost £25,000 following a financial investigation into the profits made from the sales under the Proceeds of Crime Act. Deborah Hamber received a four month suspended prison sentence plus 150 hours of community service at Exeter […]
Families Warned over Killer Car Seats
A Surrey County Council investigation has uncovered a market in deadly car seats that can kill a child at just 30mph. The council’s trading standards team is warning families of young children not to buy the illegal seats, which are imported from China and fail all UK safety standards. Crash testing done by Britax shows […]
Avoid Bad Hair Days…Avoid Counterfeit Hair Stylers!
Dictionary.com informs us coun·ter·feit [koun-ter-fit] adjective 1. made in imitation so as to be passed off fraudulently or deceptively as genuine; not genuine; forged: counterfeit dollar bills. 2. pretended; unreal: counterfeit grief. I like the fact that this mentions grief. It is so true! So I’m suggesting, please look further than the quality and […]
Designer Clothes Counterfeiters Jailed
Two brothers and their father have been jailed for their parts in manufacturing hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of fake designer garments. Kully Screen Printing Ltd, in Galby Street, Spinney Hills, Leicester, was described as a “large-scale, highly sophisticated and a professional operation”. At Leicester Crown Court, director Kuldip Singh (26), the “principal offender”, […]
Preventing Counterfeit Products Getting to Market
LIMA UK assists members on a daily basis with a diverse range of queries relating to licensing. Fortunately, the spectre of counterfeit goods doesn’t come up frequently. However, just recently LIMA was contacted by one of Europe’s leading licensed costume character companies and a long-standing LIMA, David Scott, Managing Director of Rainbow, who had an […]